"During the Great Depression of the 1930s, America "discovered" the southern sharecropper...The deepening rural impoverishment remains familiar almost a century later in the indelible images captured by photographers working for the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration"⁠ ⁠ In a new article from #PicturingBlackHistory, Professor Alex Lichtenstein presents an alternative view, exploring a series of images by FSA photographer Ben Shahn. Captured one Sunday in the fall of 1935, these images go against the visual grain of the time. ⁠ Follow our bio link to read on.⁠ ⁠ A collaboration between originsosu and gettyarchive, visit picturingblackhistory.org to explore untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience.⁠ ⁠ 📷️: Ben Shahn/Library of Congress/Getty Images | #GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #historyphotographed #shootingthepast #UShistory #Blackhistory #1930s #FSAphoto #farmsecurityadministration #newdeal #greatdepression #sharecropper #benshahn #docum...