Question

While working for this organization, Marion Post Wolcott was given early access to the Kodachrome format. August Sander’s “photography-as-science” is contrasted with this organization’s dignified subjects in Susan Sontag’s On Photography. Thousands of negatives were “killed” with a hole punch during Roy Stryker’s leadership of this organization. Using a right-angle viewfinder, Ben Shahn surprised his subjects in his photos for this (-5[1])organization. (*) Ella Watson, a cleaning lady in this organization’s (-5[1])offices, holds up a broom and a mop in a reference to American Gothic in a photo by Gordon Parks. This agency photographed Allie Mae Burroughs, an Alabama sharecropper photographed (-5[1])in Fortune’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. For 10 points, name this New Deal agency that employed photojournalists like Walker Evans. ■END■ (0[3])

ANSWER: Farm Security Administration [or FSA; accept Resettlement Administration; accept RA]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb KendrickMaryland AMaryland B+60-5
Vincent DuThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them69-5
Emmett LaurieRutgers DiasporaGlass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery99-5
Jim FanFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find ThemThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs1220
Jonathan MaginMaryland B+Maryland A1220
Grant PeetGlass Onyen: A Knives Out MysteryRutgers Diaspora1220

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y540%20%60%71.00
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y30%0%100%0.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y30%0%100%0.00
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y30%0%100%0.00
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y20%0%50%0.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y30%0%67%0.00