Under Stryker the Photographic project of the FSA documented the drought, poverty and despair of rural and urban America during the Depression. Roy Emerson Stryker (1893-1975) was the director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section of Washington, D.C. He recalls Jack Delano, John Vachon, Edwin Rosskam, Arthur Rothstein, Rexford Tugwell, John Collier, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Ben Shahn, and Marion Post Wolcott. Stryker speaks of his youth early career in ranching and social work the origin of the photography project in the Farm Security Administration bureaucratic problems photography and journalism photographers on the project subjects' reaction to being photographed public perception of the FSA project Paul Vanderbilt's work with the project's photographs ethics of the photographers and staff interaction between the photographers and subjects the influence of earlier documentary photographers, such as Matthew Brady and Lewis Hine political and media problems with the project use of the photographs as a force in social change and other issues surrounding the FSA photography project. Summary: An interview of Roy Emerson Stryker conducted 1963-1965, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home, in Montrose, Colorado. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Format: Originally recorded on 5 sound tape reels.
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