Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm in Oklahoma. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein
May 19, 2021

Photography

UR's Digital Scholarship Lab does it again

Its new project, Photogrammar, provides tools for exploring a treasure trove of more than 170,000 Depression and World War II-era photographs commissioned by the federal government. The site offers location-based browsing and tools for sifting images chronologically, by photographer (including Gordon Parks and Dorothea Lange), and other ways. dsl.richmond.edu
Photographs by (top to bottom, left to right): Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks, Ben Shahn, Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Russell Lee, and Dorothea Lange.