The People’s Artist

Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano found elegance and beauty in everyone he captured.

parents and brother in the early 1920s. In 1940, toward the end of the Great Depression, Roy E. Stryker hired him to photograph the lives of American workers along the Eastern Seaboard for the historical section of the Farm Security Administration. Although less recognized than fellow FSA photographers Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, Delano is remembered for his striking shots of railyards and his honest, respectful depiction of every individual he photographed. In 1946, Delano and his wife, artist Irene Esser, moved to Puerto Rico, which they called home for the rest of their lives. He spent the second half of his career deeply involved in Puerto Rican folk culture; his decades-long project, Puerto Rico Mio, was published in 1990. —Kelsey Liebenson-Morse

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