# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/ChXPuHpslZ8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16444199-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/f1797a064c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-08-17T14:02:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

"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"⁠
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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.⁠
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A collaboration between originsosu and gettyarchive, visit picturingblackhistory.org to explore untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience.⁠
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📷️: Ben Shahn/Library of Congress/Getty Images | #GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠
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#historyphotographed #shootingthepast #UShistory #Blackhistory #1930s #FSAphoto #farmsecurityadministration #newdeal #greatdepression #sharecropper #benshahn #documentaryphotography #socialhistory #archivephoto #photoarchive

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## Tags

documentaryphotography, socialhistory, 1930s, fsaphoto, sharecropper, benshahn, preservingthepast, shootingthepast, photoarchive, gettyimages, archivephoto, ushistory, greatdepression, picturingblackhistory, historyphotographed, farmsecurityadministration, newdeal, gettyarchive, blackhistory

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