…reat Depression. This is one of a group of images made by Wolcott to chronicle the lives of cotton pickers in the Mississippi Delta. Captured in a moment of repose, the image does not give a sense of the backbreaking work performed by these young laborers. Sometimes it was beauty, not suffering, that Wolcott tried to capture with her camera. It was the effortless beauty of the workers’ natural poses that caught her attention. Years later, she reca…