1. John Vachon was born on May 19,1914, to a middle-class Irish Catholic Family in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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John Vachon was the son of Ann Marie and Harry Parnell Vachon.
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John Vachon's parents were not well off, his father made a get-by living as a traveling salesman in stationery supplies.
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John Vachon had a Catholic education and graduated from Cretin High School local military Catholic high school.
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John Vachon continued his education at the University of St Thomas in Saint Paul and received a bachelor's degree in 1934.
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John Vachon moved to Washington, DC, after receiving a fellowship to attend graduate school at Catholic University of America to study English literature and become a writer.
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John Vachon wrote them to describe his experiences, ambitions, self-doubt, sense of humor, obligation to the FSA, the people he met, the news he read about, and the movies he watched.
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John Vachon had no intention of becoming a photographer when he took the position in 1936, but as his responsibilities increased for maintaining the FSA photographic file, his interest in photography grew.
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In October and November 1938, John Vachon traveled to Nebraska on his first extensive solo trip.
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John Vachon photographed agricultural programs on behalf of the FSA's regional office and pursued an extra assignment from the photography project's chief, Roy Stryker: the city of Omaha.
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John Vachon worked extensively in the midwestern and Great Plains states.
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John Vachon later worked as a staff photographer for Standard Oil Company of New Jersey between 1943 and 1944.
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John Vachon became a staff photographer for Life magazine, where he worked between 1947 and 1949, and for over twenty five years beginning in 1947 at Look magazine.
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In 1953 John Vachon took the first pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio when Monroe cured a sprained ankle near Banff, Canada.
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John Vachon photographed two stories for Vermont Life, a magazine edited at the time by his son Brian and became a freelance photographer.
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John Vachon continued as a freelancer until cancer brought him down.
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John Vachon died of cancer in 1975 in New York at age 60.