John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History

Margaret Bourke-White & the Photography of Segregation: Life Magazine, 1956

“Outside the South, the white Southerner who believes in segregation is sometimes pictured as a latter-day Simon Legree who now does with the law what used to be done with a whip. ...There are Southerners who fit this picture, but there are many more who are thoughtful, pious, gentlefolk --... Read more →

Carl Mydans & the Alley Dwellers of Washington, D.C., 1935

My mother was still in high school, when Carl Mydans photographed her neighborhood -- Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. At the time, Mydans was attached to the federal government's Resettlement Administration [RA] and was there to investigate conditions in the city's slums. Talented and ambitious, he would soon leave the... Read more →

The FSA Photographers and the Great American Road Trip

In the 1930s and early 1940s, a small group of immensely talented photographers, working for the federal government's Farm Security Administration [FSA], invented the visual language of the great American road trip. Dorothea Lange: Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Farmer from Independence, Kansas, on the road at cotton... Read more →