Out of the forties
by Nicholas Lemann · 1983
The author retraces the lives of the people shown in the early 1940's photographic project commissioned by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, under the direction of Roy Stryker. Many of the photographers of this survey worked with Stryker when he was the director of the FSA. They include: Russell Lee, John Vachon, Sol Libsohn, Esther Bubley, Todd Webb [and others].
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