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The FSA: The Unconscious of Roy Stryker

The FSA: The Unconscious of Roy Stryker

Photographer Jean-Christian Bourcart has assembled a selection of photographs discarded by the Farm Security Administration, the US agency created to aid poor farmers during the Great Depression. In 1937, the FSA hired several photographers — including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans — to document the rural conditions. Bourcart’s work, available in NFT format, questions the act of curating images.

© Farm Security Administration I Library of Congress

I’m not even sure any more how it started. Just curiosity, I guess. I was browsing the archives of the US Library of Congress, when I came across the famous Farm Security Administration collection...

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