Photographing Ohio's New Deal Landscape in the Twenty First Century

Friday, January 4, 2013: 8:50 AM
Salon 828 (Sheraton New Orleans)
David Bernstein, Otterbein University
David Bernstein explores the intersection of historical memory and landscape change in Ohio by creating a contemporary photographic survey of the touring routes advertised in the "Ohio Guide," a New Deal publication created by the Federal Writers Project. In retracing the Guide, Bernstein investigates the change in both the physical landscape and its memorialization.