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, (-5[1])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 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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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rahul KeyalWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft69-5
Isaac Kirk-DavidoffOlmo (Bonus) BagelryColumbia B70-5
Halle Friedmanmeet the new weird, same as the old weirdUG Championship Players (and Mazin)77-5
Victor Pavaonats is supposed to mean you all have gone softWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again1220
Daniel SheinbergUG Championship Players (and Mazin)meet the new weird, same as the old weird1220

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