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This image of a steer skull seems straightforward, but it generated enormous controversy at the time. Can you imagine why?

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Title: The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands
Artist: Arthur Rothstein
Date: May, 1936

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