Beautiful but mutilated images of rural America by some of the most famous photographers of the 20th century will soon go on display for the first time at the Whitechapel gallery in London. The censored and approved images all ended up archived in the Library of Congress, where they have recently been digitised. Nayia Yiakoumaki, the curator of Killed Negatives, spent weeks poring over thumbnail images to choose the 80 photographs in the exhibition. “I was astonished when I learned of the existence of the rejected negatives. Two of his children are in school and the two youngest ones are at home.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Carl Mydans’ photograph of children playing.

Source: The Guardian May 06, 2018 14:10 UTC