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 (-5[1])Stryker’s leadership (15[1])of this organization. Using a right-angle viewfinder, Ben Shahn surprised his subjects in his photos for this organization. (*) Ella Watson, a cleaning (-5[1])lady in this organization’s offices, holds up a broom and a mop (-5[1])in a reference to American Gothic in a photo by Gordon Parks. This agency photographed Allie Mae Burroughs, an Alabama sharecropper photographed (10[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[2])

ANSWER: Farm Security Administration [or FSA; accept Resettlement Administration; accept RA]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Mike BentleyAmartya Senpai Notice MeMojo Shojo41-5
Matt JacksonChicago AChicago B+4315
Clark SmithOSUMaryland B-65-5
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTLPurdue77-5
Justin WytmarIllinois A+Epic Games9910
Taylor HarveyMojo ShojoAmartya Senpai Notice Me1220
Jordan BrownsteinMaryland B-OSU1220

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