Sarah Hoskins

FSA List Revisited

Over the past 15 years I have taught various documentary photography classes. One thing that has remained constant, is my request of students to go out and photograph one thing from RoyStryker's 1936 FSA shooting script. In these challenging times I thought I should take my own assignment . Each week I am going out and photographing one thing from the list.

" A photographic study of use of leisure time in various income groups."
   
"People on and off the job."
   
"The effect of the depression in the smaller towns of the United States.""To include such things the growth of small independent shops."
     
  
"Compare headlines regionally.""Rather than not give anything at all, consumers will instead focus on small, thoughtful gifts for the people who mean the most to them this year."
   
"Where can people meet?""poor""pool halls"
   
"where can people meet?""Well-to-do""Homes"
     
  
"Street corners"
   
"The effect of the depression in the smaller towns of the United States."
   
"Backyards""What do you see out of the kitchen window?"
     
  
" Where can people meet?""Well-to-do""Country Clubs""Homes""Lodges"
   
"Compare headlines regionally.""Doing last minute shopping. How bad is it? It's pretty packed, really packed."
   
" Where can people meet?""Well to do"Homes"poor""Street Corners"
     
  
"attending church"
   
"Looking down the street."
   
"Looking down the street""Here again, a most interesting set of pictures could be taken, keeping in mind different income groups and different geographical areas."
     
  
"Street corners"
   
" People on and off the job.""How much different do people look and act when they are on the job than when they are off?" "This would necessitate some very careful camera studies."
   
The baseball diamond as an important part of our general landscape.
     
  
" The wall decorations in homes as an index to the different income groups and their reactions."
   
"Compare headlines regionally.""Lottery sales edge up in tough times."
   
"People on and off the job."
     
  
"Looking down the street""Here again, a most interesting set of pictures could be taken, keeping in mind different income groups and different geographical areas."
   
"Street Corners"
   
" How do people look?"In towns of various sizes-1500,25,000 to 30,000, 100,00. Consider the same thing from a geographic standpoint."near Joliet, Illinois
     
  
"Polished shoes and so on""Is it likely in large industrial areas that even the poor groups will make a greater effort to have polished shoes, pressed clothes, than the same or even higher-income group might in the smaller populated areas. What effect does wealth have on this?"
   
"Peope on and off the job."
   
"Compare headlines regionally""Retailers adjust to post-recession shoppers."
     
  
" The wall decorations in homes as an index to the different income groups and their reactions."
   
"The effect of the depression in the smaller towns of the United States."
   
"Attending church""Visiting and talking"
     
  
"How do people look ? In towns of various sizes-1500, 25,000 to 30,000, 100,000. Consider the same thing from a geographic standpoint."
   
"Where can people meet?"MotelChicago, IL
   
" People on and off the job."Chicago, IL
     
  
" How do people look?"Chicago, IL
   
"Where can people meet?"
   
"Compare headlines regionally""America celebrates the 4th of July"Evanston ParadeJuly 4, 2009
     
  
"Backyards"Racing Pigeons
   
"polished shoes and so on"
   
"Relationship between density of population and income of such things aspressed clothes."
     
  
"Church Vestibule"The church is now closed and used as a food pantry.
   
"Backyards"Trailer Park