Photographers working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Documerica Project recorded life in Texas in the early 1970s. The Documerica Project was put together by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971, with a primary goal of documenting adverse effects of modern life on the environment, but photographers were also encouraged to record the daily life of ordinary people, capturing a broad snapshot of America… view the gallery >
The Superstition of Throwing Salt
Salt is essential to human life and was once an extremely valuable commodity, so much so that the word “salary” derives from it. The crystalline
