1. newyorker:

    Last week the show “More American Photographs” opened at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco. Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration’s photography program, which commissioned photographers to document the rural poor of America in the late thirties and early forties, the curators Jens Hoffmann and Jana Blankenship commissioned twelve contemporary artists to travel the U.S. for a year and document the impact of today’s “great recession.”

    Above, a selection of images documenting today’s “great recession.” Click through to see the full slide shows from the original F.S.A. program, as well as the new series. 

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