These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks

The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its economic challenges. In time, the project launched a genre of works that incorporated photographic evidence and artistic documentation of rural poverty, highlighting the struggles and resilience of the American people during this period. Nearly a ...