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02/05/2013 10:11:17 AM · #1 |
These are some great pictures taken many years ago. The photographers really caught essence of depression era life.
1939-1943
Message edited by author 2013-02-05 10:14:51. |
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02/05/2013 11:25:34 AM · #2 |
Absolutely fascinating, and really draws you in.
What were run-of-the mill photos of everyday life has turned into an invaluable record in the space of just 70 years.
I wonder will the same thing be said of our instagram snapshots in 2083? |
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02/05/2013 11:54:41 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by JH:
Absolutely fascinating, and really draws you in.
What were run-of-the mill photos of everyday life has turned into an invaluable record in the space of just 70 years.
I wonder will the same thing be said of our instagram snapshots in 2083? |
It's worth noting that relatively few of those images can qualify as "snapshots": look at the included film edges and you'll realize most of them were shot on sheet film, meaning either with view cameras or, in most cases, probably speed-graphic type cameras. So they are mostly carefully composed and set up, presumably by professional photographers, I'm guessing mostly by news and magazine photographers. |
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02/05/2013 12:00:52 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by JH:
Absolutely fascinating, and really draws you in.
What were run-of-the mill photos of everyday life has turned into an invaluable record in the space of just 70 years.
I wonder will the same thing be said of our instagram snapshots in 2083? |
It's worth noting that relatively few of those images can qualify as "snapshots": look at the included film edges and you'll realize most of them were shot on sheet film, meaning either with view cameras or, in most cases, probably speed-graphic type cameras. So they are mostly carefully composed and set up, presumably by professional photographers, I'm guessing mostly by news and magazine photographers. |
I'm glad you said that, Bear. Because they did seem setup, and I thought the first half actually seemed very weak with that in mind. However, the second half were another being completely. Truly enjoyable. |
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02/05/2013 12:03:45 PM · #5 |
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02/05/2013 01:33:11 PM · #6 |
lots of fun to look at these shots, it really makes you think.
But I agree with Bear if you look at 16 and 20 the twin girls and the taller one with the
red dress are in both of those shots. I don't think these are random snapshots. |
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02/05/2013 01:55:02 PM · #7 |
| These are great. I don't think they're set-up shots. It's possible a photographer said something like, "Hold that pose" and then snapped the picture. As for the ones with the twins, same photographer and same town. Doesn't mean they're posed. |
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02/05/2013 02:10:15 PM · #8 |
I think the text included in the article tells that they are not all just "snapshots" or am I missing something?
Originally posted by Denver Post:
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 AmericaĂ¢€™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. |
Isn't this the same organisation that Dorothea Lange was working for when she shot her iconic "Migrant Mother" image? |
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02/05/2013 02:22:20 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by salmiakki:
I think the text included in the article tells that they are not all just "snapshots" or am I missing something?
Originally posted by Denver Post:
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 AmericaĂ¢€™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. |
Isn't this the same organisation that Dorothea Lange was working for when she shot her iconic "Migrant Mother" image? |
These do look like those shots, mixed with "military style 'propoganda' shots" as taken by Alfred T Palmer,( Alfred T Palmer (1906-1993) was a photographer who is best known for his photographs depicting Americana during WWII, as he became an Office of War Information photographer from 1942 until 1943.-from wiki)
Some are pretty artistic and pleasing to view, others not so much, but I am amazed when ever I see old color photos, and some look like they could have been taken yesterday. |
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