FSA and MAGNUM agencies in Photography.
"The Farm Security Administration and Magnum are two most significant agencies in the development of documentary photography"In this essay I will discuss the importance of these two associations, I will try to cover the main reasons for their existence and try to understand what this existence has done for society. Even though these two agencies were both set up to feed society with information using visual photography, the style and aims were very different. First of all, I will talk about the FSA, who brought it about? and how it was controlled?The Farm Security Administration was created in the department of agriculture in 1937. The FSA was a new deal program along with the RA (Resettlement Administration) designed to assist poor farmers during the Dust Bowl and the great depression. Many photographers were involved within the FSA including: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, Howard Lieberman, and Edwin Locke. An important figure for the FSA was Roy Stryker who was head of a special photographic section in the RA and FSA from 1935-1942. Roy Stryker's unit was sent out on assignments throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The office distributed photographic equipment and film, drew up budgets,
"-Margaret Bourke-White's "Portrait of Myself" Like most photographers, she had the ability to focus her personality on the getting of the photograph - by being persuasive, charming, persistent, manipulative, whatever it took. (And she apparently had a sixth sense about who would turn out to be useful to her. "[The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made. >From the research that I managed to get about Bourke-White she came across as being an incredibly hard worker with legendary stamina and perseverance, she was also charismatic and, by all accounts, beautiful. On top of all this, she had an exalted view of the role of the photographer as witness and! felt that "getting there" and sending back the word was a privilege and duty. Was she thoughtful about her work? Did she ever look at it when she got home between assignments? Did she think about photography, talk about photography, think of photography as art, think of herself as an artist? Did she love photographic equipment (the way many photographers do) or was she afraid of it? It has been suggested that Bourke-White used so much film. What I personally like about Sebastiao Salgado is his out look on life which really reflects onto his work, photographs like 'sugar cutting',- 'A worker in the oil fields of Kuwait' and the photographs of slaves 'Serra Pelado' have a biblical almost religious meaning to the photographs. The world's most prestigious photographic agency was formed by four photographers; Robert Caps, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David "Chim" Seymour - who had been very much scared of the conflict and were motivated both by sense of relief that the world had somehow survived and the curiosity to see what was still there. Fishermen fighting with their prey as th!ey make the catch, Fire-fighters in Kuwait bemused and blackened by the ferocity of their task during the Gulf War or even workers tiresome expressions after another exhausting day. you would react to something all others might walk by. Yet I found out the Salgado is not a religious man and his work is far from religious, "I have no religion, I do not believe there is a God, or that there is any special power directing the destiny of man is mankind itself. During an eight year span the section created the 77,000 black-and-white photographs and 644 coloured, for which it is now world famous for. allocated travel funds, hired staff, developed, printed, and numbered most negatives, reviewed developed film, edited photographers' captions written in the field, and maintained files of negatives, prints, and captions. Salgado's preoccupation is with people rather than production.
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Puerto Rico,
Bourke-White's Portrait,
Salgado Magnum,
Sebastiao Salgado,
Margaret Bourke-White's,
Administration Magnum,
Gulf War,
Chim Seymour,
Margaret Bourke-White,
Security Administration,
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world war,
selected images,
sebastiao salgado,
office distributed,
photographic equipment,
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