Slate’s “Shoot the Recession” Project

October 20, 2009Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

From the online magazine Slate, earlier this year:

Grim economic times produce indelible images. The Great Depression calls to mind grainy news photos of bank runs and soup kitchens, and the harrowing portraits taken by Walker Evans. The downturn of the 1970s evokes images of yacht-size cars idling in line at the gas station. But what does the current economic crisis look like?…

Perhaps the stimulus plan will provide funding for a 21st-century Walker Evans. In the meantime, Slate is turning to you…Readers are invited to submit photos to the Flickr group we’ve created…

Slate published two slide shows from this group, here and here.

Below are some more photos from the project. Click on each image to see it full-size.

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