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The Development of Aerial Photography The Development of Aerial Photography
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Aerial Survey and the Managerial Mosaic Aerial Survey and the Managerial Mosaic
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Repatterning Rural Culture Repatterning Rural Culture
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A Factory for Corn and Hogs A Factory for Corn and Hogs
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2 Managerial Mosaics: New Deal Aerial Photography and the Marshaling of Rural America
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Published:October 2015
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Abstract
Chapter 2 focuses on the impact of aviation-empowered aerial imagery, particularly aerial photographs, on the modern “revision” of Midwestern land and identity during the interwar years. In particular, I focus on three clusters of Midwestern aerial photographs: high-altitude instrumentalist survey views taken by the federal government as a part of New Deal land-management initiatives; narrative oblique views created by social documentary photographers of the government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA); and journalistic aerial views created by the era’s preeminent popular magazine, Life. In each case, these images served as both instigator and foil for newly emergent conditions of modern agricultural production and everyday life and thereby elucidate the ways that various hegemonic institutions (from the government to the mass media) employed aerial vision as a means to invent the Midwest in a new, modern aspect. At the same time, the range of responses to the photographs articulates the complex and contradictory ways that, in the eyes of skilled everyday viewers, aerial gazes both envisioned new configurations and buttressed older orders of Midwestern experience.
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