Magic casement: fabric and fur on breathing flesh, with portal into the dark
John Vachon, April 1938, “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Sharecropper and sharecropper’s dog. North Carolina.” U.S. Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Black & White Photographs, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017716964/. Contrast and detail post-processed. Don’t forget to click “Browse neighboring items by call number.” About the hole in the negative which marked an image for exclusion from the FSA collection, see Alex Q. Arbuckle, “1930s ‘Killed’ Photographs,” https://mashable.com/2016/03/26/great-depression-killed-photos/.
