![]() ![]() John’s father was a famous photographer and John clearly resents him for having been a cold and downright abusive parent and husband. ![]() Photographers like John (as well as Dorothea Lange) were employed to document the lives of those struggling in order to publicize their plight to the American public in large-circulation magazines like Life. ![]() government agency operational from 1937-1946, tasked with mitigating rural poverty during the Great Depression. De Jongh’s narrative is gorgeously drawn, yet the historical aspects held my interest more so than the fictional story elements, largely due to characters that are presented more as archetypes than three-dimensional people.ĭe Jongh ’s protagonist is twenty-two year old John Clark, a white photographer hired by the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a U.S. The story is set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, 1937, during the height of the Dust Bowl disaster (which extended from the southern regions of Montana and North Dakota all the way into Texas). ![]() Aimée de Jongh, translated by Christopher Bradleyĭutch cartoonist Aimée de Jongh describes Days of Sand as historical fiction, which is to say it’s grounded in fact but populated by fictional characters. ![]()
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