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Three FSA Photos

These photos invite the viewer to imagine the situations these children and parents must face. What details strike you most forcibly in each image? How does the caption direct your thinking? How do such elements of composition as the border and focal point of each image interact to create an effect?

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Evicted sharecropper and child - New Madrid County Missouri

Coal miner's child taking home kerosene for lamps. Company houses, coal tipple in background. Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

 

 
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