This book collects work from nine of these trips -- Evans in Louisana and Alabama, Shahn in West Virginia, Lange in California, and others -- uniting them with Stryker's shooting scripts, letters, and other relevant archival documents. What emerges, beyond the images themselves, is a complex and vital overview of the FSA at work, not just the work, but how the work evolved and matured under Stryker's guidance. Appropriately, the book concludes with photographs of New Orleans, the only city photographed in depth by the FSA artists... Read more