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[15 Jul 2008 | 3 Comments | ]

If you live in the United States you are partial owner to some of the most important photographs in U.S. history. The Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) funded a national documentary photo project during the Great Depression years (1935 – 1945). Now-legendary photographers like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, John Vachon and Marion Post Walcott (among others) were hired by the U.S. government to document the country during this trying time. With the nation sorely in need of economic …