Untitled photograph by Arthur Rothstein, 1935, related to a series of images captioned “Sharecropper’s wife and children, Arkansas”.
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.
Also appearing in the essay…
“Sharecropper’s Wife and Children, Arkansas”
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1935
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