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杰克 德拉诺  艺术专业，学过绘画、音乐。在拿到一笔奖学金之后，他才买了相机。
在PAFA毕业之后，开始了一项艺术计划。比较自信的是，他给FSA的老板罗伊斯瑞克写信，毛遂自荐，加入FSA。一年的薪水是2300美金。不过条件是他必须自己有卡车和驾照。
在项目中，他自己冲洗胶卷 ，到了FSA之后，不用这么做了。
在波多黎各开展项目，在那里定居。妻子是某个摄影师的堂妹。
后来，他开始搞起了导演、编剧，并获得多项奖项。
也是一条大牛。

FSA精神与永恒，用相机书写世界的存在
一个女孩站在门廊里。她的身后有另一人影，在通往门厅的走廊中段。再远处是女孩的祖母，面对后门的门阶而坐。德拉诺喜欢这张作品。他说，这张照片不但构图讲究，拍得正儿八经，它还有文献价值，极其真实。看上去好像是把各个环节凑到一起，构成一幅l 7世纪的绘画；而它也像那个样式的绘画那样，赏味着文化和时间的延续性。德拉诺显示了一个精心组装的世界，与过去保持接触。在这一方面，他的影作远比其他人，比如沃克·伊文斯和本·商南的作品有更多的历史意识。那些人是他的前驱，曾在美国农业安全管理局文献部效力。德拉诺是该局雇用的最后一批摄影家之一，于l 940年接替亚瑟·罗思坦的工作。1941年至1942年，他定居波多黎各，在那儿继续摄影家和作曲家的工作。 (文字来源网络，出处忘了)

以下内容来自维基百科。
Delano was born as Jack Ovcharov in Voroshilovka, 120 miles southwest of Kiev, Ukraine and moved, with his parents and younger brother, to the United States in 1923. Between 1924 and 1932 he studied graphic arts/photography and music (viola and composition)[2]  at the Settlement Music School and solfeggio with a professor from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3]  After being awarded an art scholarship for his talents, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where, from 1928 until 1932, he studied illustration and continued his musical training. While there, Delano was awarded the Kesson traveling fellowship which he took to Europe where he bought a camera that got him interested in photography.

After graduating from the PAFA, Delano proposed a photographic project to the Federal Art Program: a study of mining conditions in the Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania anthracite coal area. Delano sent sample pictures to Roy Stryker and applied for a job at the FSA. Through the help of Edwin Rosskam and Marion Post Wolcott, Stryker offered Delano a job at $2,300/year. As a condition of the job, Delano had to have his own car and driver’s license, both of which he acquired before moving to Washington, D.C.
Chicago railyards, 1942. Photograph by Jack Delano.

Before working at the FSA, Delano had done his own processing and developing but he didn’t have to do either of that at the FSA. Other photographers working for the FSA include Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. In 1943 FSA was eliminated as “budget waste” and subsumed into the Office of War Information (OWI).

He travelled to Puerto Rico in 1941 as a part of the FSA project. This trip had such a profound influence on him that he settled there permanently in 1946.

With his wife Irene (a second cousin to fellow photographer Ben Shahn) he worked in the Community Division of the Department of Public Education producing films, for many of which Delano composed the score.[4] Delano also directed Los Peloteros, a Puerto Rican film about poor rural kids and their love for baseball. The film remains a classic in Puerto Rican cinema.

Jack Delano’s musical compositions included works of every type: orchestral (many composed for the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra), ballets (composed for Ballet Infantil de Gilda Navarra and Ballets de San Juan), chamber, choral (including a commission for Coro de Nis de San Juan) and solo vocal. His vocal music often showcases Puerto Rican poetry, especially the words of friend and collaborator Tomás Blanco. Blanco, Dlano and his wife Irene collaborated on children’s books. The most prominent of these remains a classic in Puerto Rican literature: The Child’s Gift: A Twelfth Night Tale by Tomás Blanco, with illustrations by Irene Délano and incidental music (written on the margins) by Jack Délano.

His score for the film “Desde las nubes” demonstrates an early use of electronic techniques. Most of his works composed after he moved to Puerto Rico are notable for using folk material in a classical form

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Delano

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/related/?q=Delano%2C%20Jack&fi=names&co=fsa&c=20&st=thumbnails

http://www.shorpy.com/jack-delano-photos

插件没搞好，只好老老实实的一张张上传了。这些照片真的是太漂亮了。前面的赞美之词，一点都不过分。

马里恩 波斯特 沃尔科特[album id=1 template=extend]

FSA的著名摄影师。
从小和母亲生活在一起，在寄宿学校。参加过社会运动，反对纳粹。
想成为老师。后来遇到了她妹妹helen的摄影老师，并得到了鼓励。
后来战乱搬家，在纽约遇到了大牛 Ralph Steiner 和Paul Strand。Paul Strand给 Roy Stryker 写推荐信，所以，她开始了FSA的拍摄，“ladies’ stories”。
与某人结婚，开始幸福的妇女生活。不过，她用摄影支撑一家生活。
评论说，她的照片给FSA带了了清新的诚意。也许就是当年的小清新路线。

“As an FSA documentary photographer, I was committed to changing the attitudes of people by familiarizing America with the plight of the underprivileged, especially in rural America…  FSA photographs shocked and aroused public opinion to increase support for the New Deal policies and projects, and played an important part in the social revolution of the 30s” said Marion Post Wolcott.
作为FSA的纪实摄影师，我致力于改变对处于贫困境地的，人们所熟悉的美国看法，尤其是乡村美国。FSA的图片可以震惊和唤醒民意支持罗斯福的新政，并且是30年代社会改革中的重要组成部分。

said Marion Post Wolcott.
原谅我蹩脚的英语翻译吧。

Marion Post (later Marion Post Wolcott) (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990) was a noted photographer  who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation. She was born in New Jersey. Her parents split up and she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village when not at school. Here she met many artists and musicians and became interested in dance. She studied at The New School.

She trained as a teacher, and went to work in a small town in Massachusetts. Here she saw the reality of the Depression and the problems of the poor. When the school closed she went to Europe to study with her sister Helen. Helen was studying with Trude Fleischmann, a Viennese photographer. Marion showed Flieschmann some of her photographs and was told to stick to photography.
A juke joint located in Belle Glade, Florida. Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in 1944.

While in Vienna she saw some of the Nazi attacks on the Jewish population and was horrified. Soon she and her sister had to return to America for safety. She went back to teaching but also continued her photography and became involved in the anti-fascist movement. At the New York Photo League she met Ralph Steiner and Paul Strand who encouraged her. When she found that the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin kept sending her to do “ladies’ stories,” Ralph Steiner took her portfolio to show Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration, and Paul Strand wrote a letter of recommendation. Stryker was impressed by her work and hired her immediately.

Her photographs for the FSA often explore the political aspects of poverty and deprivation. They also often find humour in the situations she encountered. Her work is some of the finest in the extensive archive.

In 1941 she met Lee Wolcott. When she had finished her assignments for the FSA she married him, and later had to fit in her photography around raising a family and a great deal of travelling and living overseas.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179038448/in/set-72157603671370361/  flickr上收集的FSA 30年代的彩色照片

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Post_Wolcott

http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/mpw/mpw-bio.html

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/wolcot65.htm  口述历史

个人网站

http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/mpw/p-fsa/family/family.html

http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/mpw/mpw-fsa1.html

John Vachon

约翰 瓦尚 ，取得文学学士之后，在斯特莱克办公室做档案管理工作和信差。闲暇期间拍照，受到ben shahn、Stryker的鼓励，开始拍专题。后来为FSA拍摄。估计，在 斯特莱克 去美孚石油公司之后，他也过去工作。
进入过生活杂志，也是LOOK专职摄影师。受埃文斯风格影响很大。埃文斯还影响了弗兰克。
具体见wiki 资料。

John F. Vachon (19 May 1914–20 April 1975) was an American photographer. He worked as a filing clerk for the Farm Security Administration before Roy Stryker recruited him to join a small group of photographers, including Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Mary Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Charlotte Brooks, Carl Mydans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn, who were employed to publicize the conditions of the rural poor in America.

Family and education

Vachon was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from Cretin High School (now Cretin-Derham Hall High School). He received a bachelors degree in 1934 from the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, then named St. Thomas College. In about 1938 he married Millicent Leeper who was known as Penny. She died in 1960. Vachon married Fraoise Fourestier in 1961. Vachon served in the United States Army in 1945.[1]

Vachon’s daughter, Christine Vachon, is a noted independent film producer.

Later years
African American boy. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943. Photographed by John Vachon.Doctor administering a typhoid vaccination at a school in San Augustine County, Texas. Photograph by John Vachon, April 1943.Worker at carbon black plant in Sunray, Texas. Photographed by John Vachon, 1942.

John Vachon’s first job at the Farm Security Administration carried the title “assistant messenger.” He was twenty-one, and had come to Washington from his native Minnesota to attend The Catholic University of America. Vachon had no intention of becoming a photographer when he took the position in 1936, but as his responsibilities increased for maintaining the FSA photographic file, his interest in photography grew.[2]

By 1937 Vachon had looked enough to want to make photographs himself, and with advice from Ben Shahn he tried out a Leica in and around Washington. His weekend photographs of “everything in the Potomac River valley” were clearly the work of a beginner, but Stryker lent him equipment and encouraged him to keep at it. Vachon received help as well from Walker Evans, who insisted that he master the view camera, and Arthur Rothstein, who took him along on a photographic assignment to the mountains of Virginia. In October and November 1938, Vachon traveled to Nebraska on his first extensive solo trip. He photographed agricultural programs on behalf of the FSA’s regional office and pursued an extra assignment from Stryker: the city of Omaha.[2]

The hallmark of this style of photography is the portrayal of people and places encountered on the street, unembellished by the beautifying contrivances used by calendar and public relations photographers.[2]

He was a photographer for the Office of War Information in Washington, D.C. from 1942 to 1943, and then staff photographer for Standard Oil Company of New Jersey between 1943 and 1944. Between 1945 and 1947 he photographed New Jersey and Venezuela for Standard, and Poland for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.[1]

Vachon became a staff photographer for Life magazine, where he worked between 1947 and 1949, and for over twenty five years beginning in 1947 at Look magazine. When Look closed in 1971 he became a freelance photographer. In 1975 he was a visiting lecturer at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.[1]

He died in 1975 in New York at age 60.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vachon

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap02.html

又是生活杂志的感觉。

Carl Mydans

Carl Mydans (May 20, 1907 – August 16, 2004) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.

Mydans became devoted to photography while in college at Boston University. While working on the Boston University News as an undergraduate, his first reporting jobs were for The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. After college, he went to New York as a writer for American Banker and then in 1935 to Washington to join a group of photographers in the Farm Security Administration.

In 1936, he joined Life as one of its earliest staff photographers (Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Thomas McAvoy and Peter Stackpole were the original staff photographers) and a pioneering photojournalist.

Mydans recorded photographic images of life and death throughout Europe and Asia during World War II. In 1941, the photographer and his wife Shelley, herself a journalist, were captured by the invading Japanese forces in the Philippines, held for nearly a year in Manila, then for another year in Shanghai, China, before they were released as part of a prisoner-of-war exchange.

Mydans was sent back to war in Europe for pivotal battles in Italy and France. By 1944, Mydans was back in the Philippines to cover MacArthur’s landing, where he took some of his most famous pictures.

Some of Mydans’s more famous pictures include: the bombing of Chongqing, the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945; angry French citizens shaving the heads of women accused of sleeping with Germans during the occupation in 1944; a roomful of excited royal youngsters and their staid older relatives in 1954; and a 1950 portrait of Douglas MacArthur smoking a pipe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mydans

一开始为FSA工作，后来为美国生活杂志工作，是最早的一批摄影家。去拍摄二战时，与妻子被日军抓捕，后来被交换时释放。拍摄过重庆轰炸。

更多资料，图片见http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/carlmydans/index.html

这是最著名的那张照片。

图片来源：

http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/wg/exhibits/rlee/index.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_%28photographer%29