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John Vachon was born in St. Paul, Michigan in 1914.

Vachon worked as a filing clerk for the Farm Security Administration before Roy Stryker recruiting him to join a small group of photographers, including 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, were employed to publicize the conditions of the rural poor in America.

John Vachon died in New York in 1975.

 

 



John Vachon, Farmer from Chillicothe (1942)

 

 

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