About John Vachon
John Felix Vachon was an 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's first job at the FSA carried the title "assistant messenger." He was twenty-one, and had come to Washington, D.C., from his native Minnesota to attend the Catholic University of America. The FSA was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States. Vachon's daughter, Christine Vachon, became an independent film producer in adulthood.
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