Negative and positive view of an untitled photograph by Carl Mydans, 1935, possibly related to a series of images captioned: “Transients clearing land. Prince George's County, Maryland”.

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.