Documerica: Self-Portrait of a Nation on the Brink

Documerica : les images oubliées de l’Amérique‎

Also known as Documerica: Forgotten Pictures of America, Documerica: zapomniane obrazy Ameryki, Documerica: le immagini dimenticate del degrado ambientale, The Documerica Project : portrait d'une nation au bord de l'abîme, The Documerica Project: America's Forgotten Pictures

In the seventies, during the Richard Nixon administration, Documerica, a large-scale photographic project, led by the US Environmental Protection Agency, sought to document the country's environmental situation. The tens of thousands of photos, taken by hundreds of photographers, constitute a unique archive, showing a landscape ravaged by pollution and environmental degradation.