Stryker | Lewis Bush

“Roy Emerson Stryker (1893 - 1975) headed the information division of the United States Goverment’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression, which lasted for the decade from 1929. As part of this role he oversaw a team of photographers responsible for collecting photographs documenting the activities of the FSA, a group including renowned names like Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Gordon Parks.

As an editor Stryker’s instructions to his photographers were very specific, and for a period during the early years of the FSA he responded to deviations from them by hole punching the offending negative, making the image permanently unusable. The contents of these photographs pose the intriguing and largely unanswerable question of why Stryker felt it necessary to so violently remove these scenes from the documentary record.” L.B.


An excellent zine by Lewis Bush - one of my favourite submissions ever. I bought one for myself.


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A5
32 pages
Self published