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@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 8:45 AM

[Untitled photo, related to: ‘Loading cotton in Natchez, Mississippi’] October 1935
#photography #photographers #blackandwhitephotography #BenShahn #AmericanArt #GreatDepression #cotton #Natchez #Mississippi

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. (Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017730262/

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 8:45 AM

‘Picking cotton’ Ben Shahn. Egg tempera on plaster fresco mural (cycle *Resources of America*). South wall, #BronxGeneralPostOffice, #Bronx. Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture. 1938-1939.
#AmericanArt #BenShahn #frescocycle #mural #cotton #cottonfield #pickingcotton

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 8:45 AM

In #OCTOBER 1935
Photographs - & related art - by #ResettlementAdministration photographer & artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
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‘Picking cotton on Alexander plantation. #PulaskiCounty, #Arkansas’ Oct. 1935
#blackandwhitephotography #BenShahn #photographers #GreatDepression #cotton

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:09 AM

‘Sharecropper's children on Sunday, Little Rock, #Arkansas’
#photography #photographers #blackandwhitephotography #BenShahn #AmericanArt #GreatDepression #sharecroppers #LittleRock

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:09 AM

‘Child of Fortuna Family, #Hammond, #Louisiana’
#photography #photographers #blackandwhitephotography #BenShahn #AmericanArt #GreatDepression

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:09 AM

In #OCTOBER 1935
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Photographs by artist and #ResettlementAdministration (later #FarmSecurityAdministration) photographer Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
‘Squatter's Camp, Route 70, #Arkansas’
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#blackandwhitephotography #BenShahn #photographers #GreatDepression

@worldofartbysue.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 5:10 PM

September's theme: Labor
BEN SHAHN (1898 - 1969), “Welders”, 1943. Museum of Modern Art, New York City US.
Ben Shahn said, “I paint two things: what I love and what I abhor”.
#arthistory #art #Labor #BenShahn

Ben Shahn said, “I paint two things: what I love and what I abhor”. He loved and championed hard work and the disenfranchised; he hated injustice and oppression. Immigrants were dear to his heart, being an immigrant himself as a child (with his family) from Lithuania in 1906. He painted in the Social Realism style, embracing real life and pushing ideas that aligned with his personal leftist outlook. During the Great Depression, he worked for the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and then, as a photographer, for the FSA (Farm Security Administration) where his work centered on rural poverty. During World War II, he contributed to the Graphic Arts Division of the Office of War Information; his insistence on realism brought the horrors of genocide in Europe to the attention of many in the US for the first time. He firmly believed that art could, and should, move public opinion for the betterment of all. “Welders” became an illustration for a popular poster from the CIO labor organization’s political action committee. It shows two welders – one black, one white – looking off into the distance, where, as reflected in the safety glasses, a structure rises – a promise for a bright future. The depiction emphasizes the importance of skilled labor in securing that future. The poster (with added text) was used for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1944 reelection campaign as a means of engaging the support of union members. It was posted throughout the country in union halls.

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 3:10 AM

🎨 #BenShahn, Lithuanian-born American painter, was #BOTD 12 September 1898. #Art #Painting