the documentary and yet painstakingly lyrical investigation of the post-depression rural life in the US, embracing the period between 1939 and 1943.

photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon, Marion Post Wolcott and others.

the Farm Security Administration (FSA) was supervised by Roy Stryker , he directed the project officially known as 'Historical Section - Photographic' in purpose to gather the photographic evidence of any improvements taken place while the recovering of the Depression lasted.
definitely the FSA photographs had a dramatic and enduring impact on America's image of itself, moreover those might be appreciated as powerful and precisely moving manifestations of documentary genre. while visually shaping the social and economic picture, they also strikingly depict the interpersonal dramas of farmers' families and migrant workers, the squalor and hardship of everyday life and rare moments of simple pleasures, hereby speaking in a language of humanity and compassion.

curiously enough, the hustle of FSA contemporized the beginning of mass production of Kodakchrome, the first colour reversal film, so the fact that the pictures signify the origin of documentary colour photography obviously makes them more intriguing and illustrative within the historical context