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Re: Farm Security Administration Project:

2005-12-26 by garethjolly

Ken Carney also posted this link, if you can't find a high res version
on the net.

http://www.loc.gov/preserv/pds/photo.html#negreg

Regards
Gareth

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "opiebreath"
<milt@h...> wrote:
>
> Thanks so much for posting this link. I found the town and house I 
> grew up in and still own! Imagine my surprise to see this house 
> documented by none other than Dorothea Lange.
> The house is the third from the left in this photo:
> http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?
> fsaall:4:./temp/~ammem_CRiZ::displayType=1:m856sd=fsa:m856sf=8b35568:
> @@@
> 
> My mom and dad lived across the street at the time this photo was 
> taken but lived in the pictured house from ~1944 until their death 
> earlier this year (2005). 
> This is one of those digital prints only available in lo-res. Does 
> anyone have info about obtaining higher resolution versions?
> 
> Milt
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "garethjolly" 
> <garethjolly@b...> wrote:
> >
> > Ever felt like reprinting one of the classic images from the 30s?
> > 
> > The Library of Congress has 1000s of images available free in
> > 'archival' TIFFS (10-50MB or more) - including such classics as
> > Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mothers and Walker Evans shots
> > 
> > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
> > 
> > I produced some beautiful digital reprints on my R2400.
> > 
> > I'll confess I've always wanted to print one of these images in the
> > darkroom - might try doing a contact neg onto transparency.  But I
> > don't  think the R2400 can do this, can it?
> > 
> > Regards
> > Gareth
> >
>

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