In This Proud Land: America, 1935-1943, as seen in the FSA photographs

200 black and white photographs, by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Jack DeLano, Russell Lee, and others.

Roy Stryker was the Chief of the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration from 1935-1943. "We collected pictures", he says, that served to document American rural life during the Depression. Initially those photographs were to be used for propaganda purposes, but soon, on the strength of the great photographers he hired (Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans etc.), the eventual collection of 270K photographs came to be recognized, in the words of his co-author of this book, Nancy Wood, as one of the "most powerful photographic statements of all time". There are 200 photographs from that collection in this book, all personally chosen by Stryker.