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John Felix Vachon (May 19, 1914 – April 20, 1975) was a world-traveling American photographer. Vachon is remembered most for his photography working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) as part of the New Deal and for contributions to Look magazine.
John Vachon traveled the world as a professional photographer, but the St. Paul native's work was always shaped by his Midwestern upbringing. He is most remembered for his photographs for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Look magazine. His photos juxtaposed the rich and the poor, society's promise and its compromises.
Artist. John Vachon. (1914 - 1975) American. Biography. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, John Vachon received a bachelor's degree in English literature from St. Thomas College at age twenty, followed by further studies at the Catholic University of America (1935–36).
John Felix Vachon (May 19, 1914 – April 20, 1975) was a world-traveling American photographer. Vachon is remembered most for his photography working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) as part of the New Deal and for contributions to Look magazine.
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.
Starting in 1947, Vachon worked for Look as a staff photographer. Over the next two decades he specialized in picture-story photography. Following a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, he was a visiting professor at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. He died in 1975 in New York City.
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May 6, 2019 · John Vachon traveled the world as a professional photographer, but the St. Paul native’s work was always shaped by his Midwestern upbringing. He is most remembered for his photographs for the...
