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Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

post #1 of 16
8/2/10 at 6:35pm
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http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured...rom-1939-1943/

These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

I've never seen these and it's a very strange sensation to see them after years of 'thinking' that the decades before WWII during the Great Depression were literally sepia-toned. Heheh. I'm so used to it that I look at these and can't help thinking that these are photos of Great Depression cosplay taken in the 70s!
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post #2 of 16
8/2/10 at 9:51pm
Yeah, the logical part of my brain says, "Of course everything wasn't black and white pre-1950," but those are still amazing to look at.
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post #3 of 16
8/2/10 at 10:07pm
Cool stuff, thanks for sharing, Joon.
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post #4 of 16
8/2/10 at 10:28pm
Very cool. I liked the last one alot, the ones with airplanes, and the folks fishing with cane poles.
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post #5 of 16
8/2/10 at 10:43pm
Wow, these are goddamn AMAZING! I can't stop staring, the colour makes it all feel so real somehow. Powerful stuff.
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post #6 of 16
8/2/10 at 10:47pm
Fun seeing the Caribou, Maine pics....been through that town a hundred times.
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post #7 of 16
8/2/10 at 10:52pm
That shot of the Shasta dam being built is stunning.
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post #8 of 16
8/2/10 at 11:24pm
Just another ! here. The color really does something to bridge the years; while the settings make it clear it was decades ago, the people seem very immediate.

Thanks for sharing the link.
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post #9 of 16
8/2/10 at 11:25pm
Impressive. The forge and the train and night captured me for a moment.
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post #10 of 16
8/2/10 at 11:51pm
Absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing, Joon.

I'll parrot the remarks about seeing these types of images in such vibrant color really bridging the gap between 60 years. It makes the whole era seem that much more human and real.

Wow.
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post #11 of 16
8/2/10 at 11:55pm
PBR...excellent.
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post #12 of 16
8/3/10 at 1:11am
Great stuff..thanks for the link. Also great there are the linked pics from the Pacific theatre.
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post #13 of 16
8/5/10 at 1:10am
Crazy. Not one fat person.
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post #14 of 16
8/5/10 at 1:47am
The Russian color pics are pretty interesting too (1909!).
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post #15 of 16
8/5/10 at 10:04am
This was awesome to flip through Nooj, thanks for sharing.
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post #16 of 16
8/5/10 at 7:52pm
Kind of awesome to look through. Thanks for posting this.

But there really were some ugly-ass people back then.
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