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 organization. (*) Ella Watson, a cleaning lady in this organization’s offices, holds up a broom and a mop in a reference to American Gothic in a photo by Gordon Parks. (-5[1])This agency photographed Allie Mae Burroughs, an Alabama sharecropper photographed 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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
DaoudOxford HornetsMagisters Ludi89-5
ThomasBuzzers KaramazovBroken Imperial Nomads1220
MarkBroken Imperial NomadsBuzzers Karamazov1220
KrolMagisters LudiOxford Hornets1220

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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