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FSA Photography is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as the photographic documentation project run by the Roosevelt administration’s Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1944. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.
Dorothea Lange ran a commercial portrait studio in San Francisco, but during the depths of the Depression in 1932 she looked out her studio window, saw unemployed men standing in line in the street, and walked out toward documentary work.
Read detailsWalker Evans photographed rural poverty in the American South for the Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1937, yet he kept a deliberate distance from the agency's propagandistic purpose.
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