March 2, 1955
One of the finest pictorial records ever achieved by United States photographers will go on exhibition in The Brooklyn Museum in February, 1955.
The work to be shown is being taken from the picture survey made for the special project of the Farm Security Administration during the years 1935 to 1943. Such well-known camera artists as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, John Vachon and others will be represented.
The exhibit will be based on the pictorially historical events photographed during the life of the FSA Project of which Roy Stryker of Pittsburgh was the Director. He is consulting with T. Anthony Caruso, Curator of Photography for the museum, on material to be shown.
In 1946, the documentary photographs of the FSA formed the nucleus for the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1953 - 1970. 1955, 011. View Original
