| Names: | | | Dates: | 1914, 1 August - 1997 | | Born: | Russia, Ukraine, Kiev | | Died: | Puerto Rico | | Active: | US / Puerto Rico | | Gender: | Male |
Socially committed documentary photographer who worked for the FSA (Farm Security Administration) in the USA and later settled in Puerto Rico.Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Delano, Jack, 1997, Photographic Memories, (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press) [Δ]
Santiago, Esmeralda (introducton), 2010, Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Jack Delano: The Library of Congress, (D Giles Ltd) isbn-10: 1904832466 isbn-13: 978-1904832461 [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com | |
Family history
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch.
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 | Jack Delano: A gypsy child on U.S. No., 13, Five miles south of Salisbury, Maryland |
|  | Jack Delano: Holding his camera |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
• Sobieszek, Robert A. and Deborah Irmas 1994 the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits (Los Angeles: LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art) p.214, Plate 64 [When the Audrey and Sydney Irmas collection was donated to LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 the museum gained a remarkable collection of self portraits of notable photographers. If you need a portrait of Jack Delano this is a useful starting point.]
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Photographic collections are a useful means of examining large numbers of photographs by a single photographer on-line.
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Library of Congress, Washington, USA
Approximate number of records: >5000
Note: A single record may contain more than one photograph. | Click here |
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