Stryker

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Stryker is a surname most notably associated with Roy Emerson Stryker, the American economist and photographer who directed the Farm Security Administration’s influential documentary photography project during the Great Depression.

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instanceOf United States government agency
documentary photography pioneer
documentary photography project
economist
family name
government photography unit
human
photography administrator
surname
birthName Roy Emerson Stryker NERFINISHED
country United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
director Roy Emerson Stryker NERFINISHED
educatedAt Columbia University
employer Farm Security Administration NERFINISHED
Resettlement Administration NERFINISHED
familyName Stryker NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork documentary photography
economics
photography
focusesOn conditions during the Great Depression
rural poverty in the United States
givenName Roy NERFINISHED
hasLanguageOfOrigin English
hasNotableBearer Roy Emerson Stryker NERFINISHED
hasNotableCollaborator Arthur Rothstein NERFINISHED
Ben Shahn NERFINISHED
Dorothea Lange NERFINISHED
Gordon Parks NERFINISHED
Marion Post Wolcott NERFINISHED
Russell Lee NERFINISHED
Walker Evans NERFINISHED
hasPart Historical Section NERFINISHED
headOfOrganization Roy Emerson Stryker NERFINISHED
influenced American documentary photography
photojournalism in the United States
knownFor directing the Farm Security Administration documentary photography project
organizing large-scale photographic documentation of the Great Depression in the United States
mainSubject Great Depression in the United States NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableWork Farm Security Administration photography file NERFINISHED
Resettlement Administration photography project NERFINISHED
occupation economist
government official
photography project director
partOf New Deal cultural programs NERFINISHED
positionHeld head of the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration
workLocation Washington, D.C.

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