A Great Read, In Spite of Our Own Dry Weather

The Dust Bowl: Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster by Martin W. Sandler is a great collection of famous and not so famous photos of the Dust Bowl era, including perhaps the most famous of them, "Migrant Mother" shot by Dorothea Lange. Each photo comes with some really solid research oftentimes tied directly to the photo, other times using the photo as a place from which to start. Partner it with Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust and you've got yourself a very interesting and moving set of reads.





Other titles of interest by Sandler:

Vaqueros: America's First Cowmen (Henry Holt, 2001)

America Through the Lens: Photographers Who Changed the Nation (Henry Holt, 2005)