Sheldon Dick
Photographer, Visual Artist
1906 – 1950
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Who was Sheldon Dick?
Sheldon Dick was an American publisher, literary agent, photographer, and filmmaker. He was a member of a wealthy and well-connected industrialist family, and was able to support himself while funding a series of literary and artistic endeavors. He published a book by poet Edgar Lee Masters, and made a documentary about mining that has been of interest to scholars. Dick is best known for the photographs he took on behalf of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, and for the violent circumstances of his death.
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- Born
- 1906
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Died
- May 12, 1950
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on July 23, 2013
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