Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).
May 6, 2009
Thoughts and Moments
The caption accompanying this image tells us this gent is a farmer - and that he's resting in a car in 1938 Ohio.
Yet his body language suggests more than a mundane moment. What were his thoughts at that instant? If he had been shown this photo a year later, would he have recalled them?