FSA and MAGNUM agencies in Photography.

A detailed Summary of 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,

Salgado left Magnum after 17 years with the agency, although the move shocked many people Salgado's explanation was his eagerness for independence away from the agency and the realisation that he could indeed live outside of it.

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.

Magnum photographs were founded two years after the Second World War. 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. Magnum was created in 1947 and was designed to show an artistic impression as well as report emphasizing not only what is seen but also the way one sees it.

it because she was mailing the film across the world to be processed? Was it because the competition between Life photographers was so fierce and she felt insecure about what she was getting? Did she get mesmerized by the act of photographing? I am unable to answer these questions as to are others, suggesting that she had a very secretive life, it was said that before she died from Parkinson's disease she burnt all of her diaries why she did this was not explained.

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Approximate Word count = 1462
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Arts