Roy Stryker

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.

How the preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image.

Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, "American Gothic," was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.

During the New Deal, the U.S. knew that economic recovery depended upon housing.

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

How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.

Dorothea Lange created a vast archive of the twentieth century’s crises in America. For years her work was censored, misused, impounded, or simply rejected.

What is the role of artists in a crisis?

Photography as History in the U.S. South.

The complex backstory of one of the most famous images of the Great Depression.

Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life