Photography from the New Deal-era is often associated with mirroring the bleak realities of the Great Depression. Yet, the photography is remarkably varied, using the raw material of the visible world as a point of departure for viewers’ imaginations. Join us as we examine how the works of WPA photographers like Sybil Anikeef, Sonya Noskowiak, Edward Weston and others complicate and add dimension to understanding art and culture in the US in the 1930s.

Josie Johnson, Ph.D. is the Capital Group Foundation Curatorial Fellow for Photography at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Emilia Mickevicius, Ph.D. is a photography historian and curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Free. REGISTER