Ben Shahn

Shahn was an American phenomenon, but a new retrospective suggests that we’ve come to prize his politics over his accomplishments.

A web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photos taken by U.S. government agencies during the Great Depression.

The myth that Appalachia is uniformly White lingers, but communities of “Affrilachians” were documented in the 1930s.

The radical art of the Depression years.

During the New Deal, mass left movements and government funding spawned a boomlet in working-class art. For once, art wasn’t just the province of the rich.

Of the 270,000 photos commissioned to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed.” Explore the hole-punched archive and the void at its center.

‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.

Photography as History in the U.S. South.