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. In 1953 Vachon took the first pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio when Monroe cured a sprained ankle near Banff, Canada. With Look closed, he had continued to work as often as he could. He photographed two stories for Vermont Life, a magazine edited at the time by his son Brian and became a freelance photographer. In 1973, he won a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1975, he was a visiting professor at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In Vachon's later years, he was teaching a class in photography where he kept notebooks on the main points of the day. For December 9th, 1974 he reflects on it earlier assignment he had given his students to emulate the work of FSA photographers. Vachon continued as a freelancer until cancer brought him down. Vachon died of cancer in 1975 in New York at age 60. Timeline 1914: May 19 Born, St. Paul, Minn. 1934: B.A., St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn. 1936–1937: Assistant messenger, Farm Security Administration, Washington, D.C. 1937–1940: Junior file clerk and unofficial photographer, Farm Security Administration, Washington, D.C. circa 1938: Married Millicent (“Penny”) Leeper (died 1960) 1940–1942: Junior photographer, Farm Security Administration, Washington, D.C. 1942–1943: Photographer, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C. 1943–1944: Photographer, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey 1945: Served in United States Army 1945–1947 Photographer in New Jersey and Venezuela for Jersey Standard 1946: Photographic assignment, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Poland 1947–1949: Staff photographer, Life magazine, New York, N.Y. 1947–1971 Staff photographer, Look magazine, New York, N.Y. 1961 Married Françoise Fourestier 1971–1975 Freelance photographer, New York, N.Y. 1975 Visiting lecturer in photography, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minn. 1975, Apr. 20 Died, New York, N.Y. Gallery Notes External links “This Great Nation Will Endure”: Photographs of the Great Depression Special Exhibition Opens September 12th, 2004 Brochure from “This Great Nation Will Endure” Biography at Illinois State Geological Survey Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives New Deal Books: Book Review: New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943, Farm Security Administration, 605pp 1914 births 1975 deaths American photojournalists Architectural photographers Artists from Saint Paul, Minnesota Photographers from New York City American portrait photographers Catholic University of America alumni People of the United States Office of War Information