Marion Post Wolcott

Marion Post Wolcott (1910, 1990) was an American documentary photographer best known for her work with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Her photographs captured the lives of rural Americans during the Great Depression, depicting both the hardships of poverty and the resilience of everyday life with empathy and compositional elegance. She is regarded as one of the most significant photographers of the FSA era, alongside peers such as Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.