Untitled photograph by Carl Mydans, 1935, possibly depicting a farm in Prince George's County, Maryland. One of the so-called "killed negatives" that were hole punched by FSA staff to indicate that they should not be printed.
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.
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Untitled photograph by Carl Mydans, 1935, possibly depicting a farm in Prince George's County, Maryland. One of the so-called "killed negatives" that were hole punched by FSA staff to indicate that they should not be printed.
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