negotiating the vantage point

The second part in Errol Morris’ seven part series on the FSA in the NYTimes looks at the photographers that worked for the Information arm of the FSA, the photos they took, the claims and counter-claims surrounding the imagery, and how they portrayed the American west during the dust bowl years.

Morris examines the use of FSA photographs as propaganda tools during the great depression through the very calculated staging of clinical objectivity.