The Virginia Film Society is looking at the photographers behind the iconic photographs of New Deal-era America.
“Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers,’’ at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Vinegar Hill Theatre, is narrated by Julian Bond, a civil rights leader and University of Virginia history professor.
Jeanine Butler’s film explores the work of the still photographers — including Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott and Jack Delano — who captured images of everyday Americans in programs under the Farm Security Administration — Office of War Information. Stryker led the office during the Depression. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the photographers traveled the country to document the lives of Americans of all walks of life.
Butler has more than 15 years’ experience writing and producing films for PBS, the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Channel.
The screening ends the film society’s fall season.
Membership in the film society is $60, $50 for students and seniors, and includes admission to screenings, one free pass to Regal Cinemas, $2 off Mondays at Sneak Reviews and $6.50 Tuesday movies at Vinegar Hill.
Tickets are $9, free to film society members, and can be purchased half an hour before the screening. For details, call 982-5277.
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