When I began studying photography at the University of Texas School of Journalism I quickly learned about the FSA photographers. The Farm Security Administraion photographs are some of the most well known in the American collective consience. The FSA sent photographers to locations across the US with the mission to bring back images that would explain to Congress what the American public was facing during the Great Depression.
There were about twelve photographers altogether working under economist Roy Stryker. The FSA was part of the New Deal program to combat joblessness in America.
A few of the most famous photographs are from Dorthea Lange who incidentally was fired and rehired a number of times by Stryker.
Dorthea Lange, Migrant Mother
Gordon Parks
Arthur Rothstein
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