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Vernacular Landscape–Found-Religious Signs, 1936

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Which is a detail from:

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 Which itself is a detail from:

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John Vachon; Religious Signs, Minnesota. 1936.

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

 Vachon (1914-1975) was part (beginning in 1936) of one of the great groups of photographers in the history of American images: he worked for Roy Stryker in the FSA as part of the U.S. government’s attempt to record the good and ill of American poor.  That group included 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.  OF the many images recorded by Vachon, I liked the words in this one.

 

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