I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was even very precise. So as far as I'm concerned, the kind of photography I did in the FSA was the kind of photography I still do today, because it is based on passionate concern for the human condition. That is the basis of all the work that I do.

Jack Delano

Quoted in Far from Main Street: Three Photographers in Depression-Era New Mexico, an exhibit catalogue published by the Museum of New Mexico Press, from a taped interview of Jack Delano by Jay Rabinowitz, January 5, 1993.

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