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  • Tags: Great Depression

Trubach--Musical Appeal--cropped.jpg
Two blocks of tenement buildings dominate this urban scene, in hues of rusty brick, gray, and white. A slightly convex picture plane tilts down dark gray sidewalks and a street in the foreground to give them even greater prominence. Only a band of…

Lange--Migrant house.jpg
This structure was located on a 1500-acre cantaloupe farm in California's Imperial Valley near the US border with Mexico. Its photographer, Dorothea Lange, was one of the best-known photographers of the New Deal era, often recording poverty amidst…

Cotton Harvesters.jpg

Wolcott--Day Laborers.jpg

Bourke-White--World's Highest.jpg

Schardt - Three Able Seamen.JPG
This print’s obviously ironic title asks us to notice what flows into the void of unemployment—all the moments of time that remain to be filled. Three men stare into the near distance, fiddle with their fingers, or even empty a pebble from a shoe.…
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