Oral history interview with Edwin and Louise Rosskam
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 49 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Interviewee
content: Rosskam, Louise, 1910-2003
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
label: Names
content: Lange, Dorothea
label: Names
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
label: Names
content: Vachon, John, 1914-1975
label: Names
content: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
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content: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
topic: label: Topic
content: Documentary photography
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- New Jersey -- Roosevelt -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Interviewee
content: Rosskam, Louise, 1910-2003
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edwin (1903-1985) and Louis Rosskam (1910-2003) were photographers from Roosevelt, N.J.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 August 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rosska65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Edwin and Louise Rosskam conducted 1965 August 3, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art, at their home, in Roosevelt, N.J.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Edwin Rosskam speaks of his background and youth in Germany; coming to the United States; his education in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the early development of his interest in photography; getting his photojournalism career started; joining the Farm Security Administration and working under Roy Stryker; the view of America presented by the work produced by the FSA; photography exhibits he has done; the effect upon him of the people he met and photographed during his FSA career; the political impact of the FSA; applications and uses of the photographs produced by the FSA; the project's strengths and weaknesses; books and other projects he has contributed to. He recalls Roy Stryker, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, John Vachon, and the novelist Richard Wright. Louise Rosskam discusses the impact upon her of the people who were photographed, propagandistic aspects of the work, and the impact of the FSA project on photojournalism.