A United States government agency of the 1930s whose photography project documented rural poverty during the Great Depression. The project ran from 1935 (first under the Resettlement Administration) to 1944, led by Roy Stryker. It is often shortened to FSA.
Its photographers made about 175,000 black and white negatives. They included Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein and Russell Lee. Lange's Migrant Mother (1936) is the best-known image. The collection is now at the Library of Congress. See also documentary.
