I’ve seen these “Documerica” slides used as evidence recently - while the air/ climate was bad - the color cast is largely due to the film stock and aging of the slides (and can be seen consistently through the slides)
www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
March 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’ve seen these “Documerica” slides used as evidence recently - while the air/ climate was bad - the color cast is largely due to the film stock and aging of the slides (and can be seen consistently through the slides)
www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
How many reasons, and how much evidence, is needed to show why the EPA was created, and why it should remain intact. In this photo, from Documerica, Mary Workman holds a jar of undrinkable brown well water in front of her home in Steubenville, Ohio. 10/1973
www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
March 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
How many reasons, and how much evidence, is needed to show why the EPA was created, and why it should remain intact. In this photo, from Documerica, Mary Workman holds a jar of undrinkable brown well water in front of her home in Steubenville, Ohio. 10/1973
www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
Staying active as we age boosts heart, muscle & brain health—supporting independence & quality of life.
Post-pandemic, it's more vital than ever.
Full article by Alice Zampieri wearethenews.com/article/445
#WATN #Sports
Photo Credits: Documerica
Post-pandemic, it's more vital than ever.
Full article by Alice Zampieri wearethenews.com/article/445
#WATN #Sports
Photo Credits: Documerica
June 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Staying active as we age boosts heart, muscle & brain health—supporting independence & quality of life.
Post-pandemic, it's more vital than ever.
Full article by Alice Zampieri wearethenews.com/article/445
#WATN #Sports
Photo Credits: Documerica
Post-pandemic, it's more vital than ever.
Full article by Alice Zampieri wearethenews.com/article/445
#WATN #Sports
Photo Credits: Documerica
Trump plans to fire 65% of the EPA's staff. I'm old enough to remember what the air and water looked like before the successes of the EPA. Here's the NYC skyline in the 1970s.
February 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trump plans to fire 65% of the EPA's staff. I'm old enough to remember what the air and water looked like before the successes of the EPA. Here's the NYC skyline in the 1970s.
My childhood, our future.
Unregulated levels of mercury and carbon dioxide in the air we all breathe. Communities nationwide, but those living in deep poverty will be hit first.
MAGA taking us back to breathe 1970s polluted air before the EPA was formed, up & working to protect everyone’s health
Unregulated levels of mercury and carbon dioxide in the air we all breathe. Communities nationwide, but those living in deep poverty will be hit first.
MAGA taking us back to breathe 1970s polluted air before the EPA was formed, up & working to protect everyone’s health
June 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My childhood, our future.
Unregulated levels of mercury and carbon dioxide in the air we all breathe. Communities nationwide, but those living in deep poverty will be hit first.
MAGA taking us back to breathe 1970s polluted air before the EPA was formed, up & working to protect everyone’s health
Unregulated levels of mercury and carbon dioxide in the air we all breathe. Communities nationwide, but those living in deep poverty will be hit first.
MAGA taking us back to breathe 1970s polluted air before the EPA was formed, up & working to protect everyone’s health
Came across this massive collection of photographs called "Documerica," a project by the EPA to capture the USA in the 1970s.
All public domain, so free to use! www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
All public domain, so free to use! www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
November 22, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Came across this massive collection of photographs called "Documerica," a project by the EPA to capture the USA in the 1970s.
All public domain, so free to use! www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
All public domain, so free to use! www.flickr.com/photos/usnat...
These images are from the EPA's Documerica project. It is an important archive! I wrote about it for Environmental History: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1.... So did @nancyclimateart.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #envhist
March 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
These images are from the EPA's Documerica project. It is an important archive! I wrote about it for Environmental History: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1.... So did @nancyclimateart.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #envhist
If you do not already know, I highly HIGHLY recommend those y'all my age (25) or younger to research how bad the environment and pollution was in the US prior to the creation of the EPA.
Best way to see this is through the EPA's photography project titled DOCUMERICA.
Best way to see this is through the EPA's photography project titled DOCUMERICA.
What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.
May 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you do not already know, I highly HIGHLY recommend those y'all my age (25) or younger to research how bad the environment and pollution was in the US prior to the creation of the EPA.
Best way to see this is through the EPA's photography project titled DOCUMERICA.
Best way to see this is through the EPA's photography project titled DOCUMERICA.
Raw sewage is discharged into the ocean three miles from Waikiki Beach. An EPA loan to build a treatment plant is in the works, October 1973 #Documerica #EPA #nationalarchives.
December 22, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Raw sewage is discharged into the ocean three miles from Waikiki Beach. An EPA loan to build a treatment plant is in the works, October 1973 #Documerica #EPA #nationalarchives.
Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. Lake Mead is formed by the dam, May 1972 #Documerica #EPA #nationalarchives
December 15, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. Lake Mead is formed by the dam, May 1972 #Documerica #EPA #nationalarchives
Documerica, les images oubliées de l'Amérique | ARTE.
La pollution quotidienne et banalisée, en images, aux #USA dans les années '70.
Ou, la face sombre du rêve américain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZ3...
La pollution quotidienne et banalisée, en images, aux #USA dans les années '70.
Ou, la face sombre du rêve américain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZ3...
Documerica, les images oubliées de l'Amérique | ARTE
YouTube video by ARTE
www.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Documerica, les images oubliées de l'Amérique | ARTE.
La pollution quotidienne et banalisée, en images, aux #USA dans les années '70.
Ou, la face sombre du rêve américain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZ3...
La pollution quotidienne et banalisée, en images, aux #USA dans les années '70.
Ou, la face sombre du rêve américain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZ3...
This is well captured by the EPA's Documerica project, which hired young freelance photographers from c. 1971 to 1977 to capture what is now a time capsule of the contemporary environment:
www.archives.gov/research/env...
(note the 'smog' folder)
www.archives.gov/research/env...
(note the 'smog' folder)
June 9, 2024 at 1:08 AM
This is well captured by the EPA's Documerica project, which hired young freelance photographers from c. 1971 to 1977 to capture what is now a time capsule of the contemporary environment:
www.archives.gov/research/env...
(note the 'smog' folder)
www.archives.gov/research/env...
(note the 'smog' folder)
it happened back in the 70s but DOCUMERICA is part of a grand tradition of New Deal-esque programs to pay freelance American artists to produce art with little specific direction, providing immense public benefit no private corp ever would while simultaneously feeding a generation of artists
It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017
This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up
A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.
www.popsci.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
it happened back in the 70s but DOCUMERICA is part of a grand tradition of New Deal-esque programs to pay freelance American artists to produce art with little specific direction, providing immense public benefit no private corp ever would while simultaneously feeding a generation of artists
""Documerica" ist der Name eines Fotoprogramms der US-Umweltbehörde in den 1970er Jahren. Ziel war es, den dramatischen ökologischen Zustand des Landes fotografisch zu dokumentieren. [...]" Lest den kompletten Text in der Videobeschreibung.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYs1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYs1...
Documerica: Bilder eines vergangenen Landes | Doku HD | ARTE
YouTube video by ARTEde
www.youtube.com
August 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
""Documerica" ist der Name eines Fotoprogramms der US-Umweltbehörde in den 1970er Jahren. Ziel war es, den dramatischen ökologischen Zustand des Landes fotografisch zu dokumentieren. [...]" Lest den kompletten Text in der Videobeschreibung.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYs1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYs1...
Maybe of interest- the Documerica project of the 1970's- www.archives.gov/publications...
photographic project a little akin to the Farm Security Administration project of the 1930's
photographic project a little akin to the Farm Security Administration project of the 1930's
www.archives.gov
February 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Maybe of interest- the Documerica project of the 1970's- www.archives.gov/publications...
photographic project a little akin to the Farm Security Administration project of the 1930's
photographic project a little akin to the Farm Security Administration project of the 1930's
🇺🇸 📷 Un passionnant documentaire, à voir sur @artefr.bsky.social : "Documerica". En 1970, une vaste mission photographique dresse un état des lieux environnemental des États-Unis. 80 000 photos qui révèlent l'étroite imbrication des questions écologiques et sociales. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/10...
Documerica, les images oubliées de l'Amérique - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
En 1970, une vaste mission photographique s'emploie à dresser un état des lieux de la situation environnementale aux États-Unis. Quatre-vingt mille clichés, arrachés à l'oubli, présentent le même visa...
www.arte.tv
March 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🇺🇸 📷 Un passionnant documentaire, à voir sur @artefr.bsky.social : "Documerica". En 1970, une vaste mission photographique dresse un état des lieux environnemental des États-Unis. 80 000 photos qui révèlent l'étroite imbrication des questions écologiques et sociales. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/10...
John H. White (1973-4)
![“Artist Ron Blackburn painting an outdoor wall mural at the corner of 33rd and...” (from Documerica)
----- [from the Public Domain Review] -----
It’s hard not to read John H. White’s DOCUMERICA series as a love letter to Black Chicago. Whether capturing protesters or checkers players, concerts or chores, White’s work feels animated by a wonder and curiosity for the great breadth of stories and characters he encountered while exploring his adopted home city — “life”, as he put it in the captions to several of his images, “in all its seasons”.
While still in his twenties, White (b. 1945) was contracted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of DOCUMERICA, a project that sought to produce a visual record of the nation and its people with a particular — but not an exclusive — focus on ecology. The program made use of local photographers around the country and generally provided little in the way of guidelines or restrictions on subject matter; collectively, White and the rest of the DOCUMERICA cohort produced over 20,000 images, often using the openness of their assignment to create a body of work that shines not just with environmental urgency but with artistic vision too.
In its ambition to present as capacious an account of contemporary American life as possible, DOCUMERICA was a spiritual successor to the Farm Security Administration’s Great Depression-era photography, which project director Gifford Hampshire cited as a major source of inspiration. Indeed, White is often spoken of alongside Gordon Parks, whose photographs for the FSA and the Office of War Information constitute crucial documents of Black American life in the mid-twentieth century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreigc4nouswnjuyhegnj7wn6squbzy5qeoagc4t2eisnlekfybr2aji@jpeg)
March 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
John H. White (1973-4)
Bonus: This is from a collection of photos (DOCUMERICA) that I was already planning to discuss.
January 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Bonus: This is from a collection of photos (DOCUMERICA) that I was already planning to discuss.
« Documerica, les images oubliées de l’Amérique », sur Arte.tv : quand les Etats-Unis se préoccupaient de l’environnement
« Documerica, les images oubliées de l’Amérique », sur Arte.tv : quand les Etats-Unis se préoccupaient de l’environnement
www.lemonde.fr
May 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
« Documerica, les images oubliées de l’Amérique », sur Arte.tv : quand les Etats-Unis se préoccupaient de l’environnement
About a decade ago, I went through a Documerica moment. Never wrote much about it, but posted a few thoughts about some Danny Lyons photos. johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_m...
Danny Lyon, El Paso, 1972: Kodachrome, Cars, & the Barrio
Even on a bad day, a good photographer can produce a terrific image. Danny Lyon's "Teenager in Second Ward, Chicano Neighborhood, 06/1972" is a case in point. It's from a series of photos that he made...
johnedwinmason.typepad.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
About a decade ago, I went through a Documerica moment. Never wrote much about it, but posted a few thoughts about some Danny Lyons photos. johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_m...
Thanks so much, Lauren! I really enjoyed your presentation as well and am excited to follow along with Digital Documerica!
December 5, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Thanks so much, Lauren! I really enjoyed your presentation as well and am excited to follow along with Digital Documerica!
🔗 to the National Archives DOCUMERICA Series:
catalog.archives.gov/id/542493
catalog.archives.gov/id/542493
The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.
catalog.archives.gov
May 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🔗 to the National Archives DOCUMERICA Series:
catalog.archives.gov/id/542493
catalog.archives.gov/id/542493
Stacked Cars In Philadelphia Junkyard Will Be Used For Scrap, August 1973 #Documerica #EPA #nationalarchives.
December 24, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Stacked Cars In Philadelphia Junkyard Will Be Used For Scrap, August 1973 #Documerica #EPA #nationalarchives.
December 25, 2024 at 12:11 PM