Over 160,000 images were captured, but less than half made it to print.
Heading the photography program was Roy Stryker, a highly educated economist and a photographer himself.
Stryker made sure that the photographers were well briefed on what was wanted from them before being sent out.
When they returned with their negatives, Roy Stryker and his team of editors went through them ruthlessly.
This heavy-handed editing methodology earned Roy Stryker fair amount of infamy.
He used to punch a hole through a negative.
Stryker did not explicitly state his criteria for selection or his methodology to determine which photos to be killed.
Stryker also killed a great number of photos for being redundant.
Thousands of killed FSA photos have since been digitized and archived at the Library of Congress.
A selection of these so-called killed negatives are now on display at Londons Whitechapel gallery.
The exhibition will run till August 26, 2018.
