Artist: John Vachon (American, 1904-1975)
Title: Farley-Loetscher Building
Date: 1940
Accession #: 00.08.28
Medium: Black and white photograph
Dimensions: sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in., image: 13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.
Acquired by: William G. & Barbara Kruse
About the Artist: From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as a part of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography project. In the fall of 1938, he undertook his first extensive solo trip photographing agricultural programs in Nebraska with a special focus on the city of Omaha. Vachon later recalled that it was in Omaha when he first realized that he had his own style of seeing with a camera: “I knew that I would photograph only what pleased or astonished my eye, and only in the way that I saw it.”