Farm Security Administration photographers

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New Deal cultural program group of documentary photographers

Farm Security Administration photographers were a group of U.S. government-hired documentary photographers in the 1930s and early 1940s who created iconic images of rural poverty and New Deal America.

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Observed surface forms (6)

Surface form	Occurrences
Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection	2
Dust Bowl photographs	1
Farm Security Administration documentary photography project	1
Great Depression photography	1
Great Depression rural life photographs	1
New Deal photography	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	New Deal cultural program ⓘ group of documentary photographers ⓘ
activePeriod	1930s ⓘ early 1940s ⓘ
collectionHeldBy	Library of Congress ⓘ
coordinatedBy	Roy Stryker ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dissolved	1944 ⓘ
employer	Resettlement Administration ⓘ surface form: Farm Security Administration
genre	documentary photography ⓘ photojournalism ⓘ
hasPart	Ann Rosener ⓘ Arthur Rothstein ⓘ Ben Shahn ⓘ Carl Corey ⓘ Carl Mydans ⓘ Dorothea Lange ⓘ Edwin Rosskam ⓘ Esther Bubley ⓘ Gordon Parks ⓘ Jack Delano ⓘ John Collier Jr. ⓘ John Ferrell ⓘ John H. White ⓘ John Vachon ⓘ Lee Russell ⓘ Marion Post Wolcott ⓘ Martha McMillan Roberts ⓘ Paul Carter ⓘ Russell Lee ⓘ Theodor Jung ⓘ Walker Evans ⓘ
inception	1935 ⓘ
influenced	later documentary photography in the United States ⓘ photojournalism standards in the 20th century ⓘ
location	Washington, D.C. ⓘ surface form: Washington, D.C. (administrative headquarters)
mainSubject	African American life in the 1930s and 1940s ⓘ Dust Bowl ⓘ surface form: Dust Bowl migrants Great Depression ⓘ surface form: Great Depression in the United States New Deal ⓘ surface form: New Deal programs farm tenancy and sharecropping ⓘ industrialization and urbanization in the United States ⓘ rural poverty in the United States ⓘ
notableWork	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) ⓘ Dorothea Lange ⓘ surface form: Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
numberOfImages	over 170000 black-and-white photographs ⓘ
parentOrganization	United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ
partOf	Resettlement Administration ⓘ surface form: Farm Security Administration Resettlement Administration ⓘ surface form: Resettlement Administration photography project
purpose	to build public support for New Deal agricultural and relief programs ⓘ to document the effects of the Great Depression ⓘ
sponsor	United States government ⓘ surface form: United States federal government

Referenced by (11)

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Dust Bowl → documentedBy → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

Carl Corey → influencedBy → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

Dorothea Lange → knownFor → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

this entity surface form: Great Depression photography

Russell Lee → movement → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

this entity surface form: New Deal photography

Arthur Rothstein → notableWork → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dust Bowl photographs

Arthur Rothstein → notableWork → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

this entity surface form: Great Depression rural life photographs

Roy Stryker → notableWork → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration documentary photography project

John Vachon → partOf → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection

Lee Russell → partOf → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection

Paul Carter → partOf → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ

Carl Corey → sharesTraditionWith → Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ