Denim: The Fabric That Built America, 1935–1944 | Reel Art Press
Denim: The Fabric That Built America, 1935–1944 | Reel Art Press
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Two hundred fifty photographs pulled from the Farm Security Administration archive, an image bank of over 170,000 negatives commissioned by the US government to document working America during the Depression years. Editors Graham Marsh and Tony Nourmand searched the archive for a single thread: everyone was wearing denim. Levi's, Wrangler, Lee, OshKosh, Carhartt.
Field hands, dam builders, women working the Chicago railroad, out-of-work miners. Every image was rescanned from the original negatives, and the detail reads startlingly current: the heft of the weave, white stitching against indigo, cuffed hems, selvedge edges. A history of American workwear before it became fashion.
- Hardcover, 240 pages
- 9.25 × 11.2 in, b&w and color
- Reel Art Press, 2024
- ISBN 9781909526976