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John Vachon was born on May 19, 1914, to a middle-class Irish Catholic Family in Saint Paul, Minnesota.He was the son of Ann Marie (O'Hara) and Harry Parnell Vachon. [2] His parents were not well off, his father made a get-by living as a traveling salesman in stationery supplies. [3]
Photographer: John Vachon. Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938 Farm Security Administration, Lot 412. John Vachon's first job at the Farm Security Administration carried the title "assistant messenger." He was twenty-one, and had come to Washington from his native Minnesota to attend Catholic University of America.
Aug 27, 2012 · John Vachon Meeker County, Minnesota. Music supplied by two Meeker County farmers . for dance at crossroads store, 1942. Migrant girls working in cherry canning plant ...
Poland, 1946: The Photographs and Letters of John Vachon, edited by Ann Vachon, introduction by Brian Moore, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC), 1995. SIDELIGHTS: John Vachon first became interested in photography while working as an assistant messenger for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) under Roy Stryker.
John Vachon Papers [finding aid]. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Author: Vachon, John, 1914-1975 Subject: Photographer. Correspondence, family papers, writings, and miscellaneous material relating primarily to Vachon\220s career as a pho\ tographer with the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Look magazine ...
After working for many years as a staff photographer at Look magazine, Vachon became a visiting professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1974. Phillips, Christopher, and Vanessa Rocco, eds. Modernist Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection. New York: International Center of Photography and Göttingen, Germany ...
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Aug 13, 2019 · John Vachon (1914-1975) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and received a bachelor's degree in English literature from St. Thomas College at age 20. He began his career as a photographer working for Roy Stryker (1893-1975) at the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression.
