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Mar 8, 2016
Mar 8, 2016
Advertising feeds at county fair, Central Ohio
Advertising feeds at county fair, Central Ohio
1938
Ben Shahn
(American, 1898–1969)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.3 x 24.2 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.5 x 25.4 cm (8 1/16 x 10 in.)
Gift of Samuel J. Lehr 2016.567
© Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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American painter and printmaker Ben Shahn also had a significant career as a photographer in the 1930s surveying the impact of the Great Depression on the American people. In July and August 1938, the Farm Security Administration, a federal agency, commissioned Shahn to cover the harvest in Central Ohio. His photographs constitute an invaluable in-depth portrait of rural and small town life in 1930s Ohio.
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