Farm Security Administration - 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo

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 (-5[1])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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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Tony Chen	The Passion According to C.H.	Cameron et al.	69	-5
Milan Fernandez	Milan et al.	Parth et al.	89	-5
Henry Atkins	Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	The Vulture's Guide to Buzz	122	0
Michael Du	The Vulture's Guide to Buzz	Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	122	0
Maude-Sophie Lockman	Parth et al.	Milan et al.	122	0

Summary


2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	5	40%	20%	60%	71.00
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	0%	0%	100%	0.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	0%	0%	100%	0.00
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	0%	0%	100%	0.00
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	0%	0%	50%	0.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	0%	0%	67%	0.00