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Archive - ARCHIVE HIGHLIGHT - Landscape of the Blues 

Blues music came grew from a particular place and time in the American landscape; an African American Deep South of rural poverty, of sharecropping and migrant labour. As the 20th Century progressed, it moved as the people moved, and changed as the experience of the urban streets of Chicago overtook the fields. 

Erich Hartmann 1953

USA. 1953. Cotton picking. 

Constantine Manos 1965

USA. South Carolina. Sharecroppers. Boys in the back of a horse... 

Thomas Hoepker 1963

USA. Florida. 1963. A village of black sharecroppers in Northern... 

Bruce Davidson 1962

USA. South Carolina. 1962. Cotton pickers sitting on plucked... 

Wayne Miller 1949

USA. Alabama. Cotton picker. 

Eve Arnold 1951

USA. Long Island. New York. Son of migrant potato picker. 1951.... 

Eve Arnold 1951

Migrant potato pickers. Long Island, New York. 

Eve Arnold 1951

USA. New York. Port Jefferson. Migrant potato picker. 1951. 

Eve Arnold 1951

USA. New York. Long Island. Migrant potato pickers camp. 1951.... 

Eve Arnold 1951

USA. Long Island. Migrant labour camp.
1951. 

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 1946

USA. Mississipi. Natchez. 1947. 

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 1947

USA. Mississippi. Natchez. 1947. 

Elliott Erwitt 1953

USA. Delta, Mississippi. 1950. 

Elliott Erwitt 1953

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 1961

USA. Mississipi. Hinds County. 1961. 

Bruce Davidson 1962

USA. Mount Bayou, Mississippi. 1962.

Thomas Hoepker 1963

USA. Mississippi. 1963. An African-American settlement in the... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. A woman and her squatter's shack... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Sandlot baseball.

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Keeping warm, pool hall.

Danny Lyon 1964

MISSISSIPPI. Yazoo. 1964. Rural road running into the town of... 

Elliott Erwitt 1950

USA. Wilmington, North Carolina. 1950. 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. Striker on picket line of packing house... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Afternoon game at table 2.

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. An alley between overcrowded tenements,... 

Wayne Miller 1946

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Merchants, South Halsted Street.... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. After school.

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Young ice man, with World War II... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Mourners at funeral.

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Back steps of the 45th Street bar.... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Protest by packing house workers.... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Boy outside "Fish Market". 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Tenement back porch.

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Storyteller.

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Chicago, Illinois. 1947.

Wayne Miller 1946

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Man at window of shack. 
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