Beaumont Newhall’s photograph of Roy Stryker (far right) reviewing photographs with Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon (leftmost), ca. 1938.

Featured on PDR in the essay The Kept and the Killed

Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center.

Roy Stryker (Far Right) Reviewing Photographs with Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon (Leftmost)

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1938


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