Hank O''Neal was born in 1940 and, in addition to being a photographer, his career has included stints in the worlds of government, education, and record and concert production. In 1970, O''Neal took his first serious photographs and two years later met Berenice Abbott, with whom he worked closely for the next nineteen years. About the same time he met Walker Evans and all the other living Farm Security Administration photographers. O''Neal is co-editor of Berenice Abbott (2008) and the five-volume The Unknown Abbott (2013), and has published more than a dozen other books on various subjects, mostly related to photography, music or both.
... you're jolted by the miserable ways many people lived through
the Depression, by the artistry and compassion of the
photographers...by the uncondescending ways they found to give
these usually nameless Americans a sense of dignity... No kidding,
this book should be in every American home.--Malcolm Jones "Daily
Beast"
What gives the book its enduring importance is that O'Neal sought
out nine of the 10 surviving photographers, as well as Lange's
widower and Ben Shahn's widow, and had them select the photographs
they wanted to include, write the captions, and tell him their
stories. .. What most pleases O'Neal about "A Vision Shared" is the
human element: The tribute it offers not just to a remarkable body
of work but, even more, to that body of work's creators.--Mark
Feeney "Boston Globe"
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