The Great Depression plunged rural Americans into desperate poverty. But when photographers were commissioned by the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration to document the harsh realities, their findings were drastically edited down - often by a hole-punch through the negative to prevent them being printed. The Whitechapel Gallery now exhibits many of the photos from these so-called 'killed negatives', the deliberate vandalism creating eerie black gaps in the images.
Killed Negatives: Unseen Images of 1930s America
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