early life and career harold corsini was an american photographer born in new york city in 1919. he began his career as a freelancer and assisted arnold s. eagle for three years as a photography teacher for the national youth administration. corsini admired the work of roy stryker's farm security administration photographers and joined the photo league in 1938. photographic work corsini worked for life magazine and later joined the standard oil documentary project under roy stryker. in 1950, he accompanied stryker to pittsburgh, pennsylvania, and assisted him as head of the photographic depar…