Digital Humanities Lab

Photogrammar

Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching and visualizing the 170,000 photographs created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) from 1935–1945. Among them are to be found many of the best known and most widely admired American documentary photographs of the Great Depression and the home front during World War II (example, Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother). But as searching in Photogrammar makes clear, there are hundreds of lesser-known images that are also fascinating and important. Considering the images and metadata housed at the Library of Congress FSA-OWI archive as a “large, messy data set,” Photogrammar makes it possible to aggregate and associate them in new ways.

Photogrammar’s multi-layered interactive maps support teaching and public engagement as well as original scholarship, while the Photogrammar Labs provide further provocations. Photogrammar was funded by an NEH Office of Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant and has, as well, enjoyed continuing support by Yale.

Photogrammar was recently named one of the inaugural recipients of the ACLS's new Digital Extension Grants. Visit the ACLS News page to see the announcement!

 

Project Team

Laura Wexler (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies)

Lauren Tilton (American Studies)

Taylor Arnold (Statistics)

Peter Leonard (Digital Humanities Lab)

Trip Kirkpatrick (Center for Teaching and Learning)

Catherine DeRose (Digital Humanities Lab)

Monica Ong Reed (Digital Humanities Lab)

 
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Monday, August 14, 2017 - 3:24pm