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Depression era color photos from FSA/OWI

2006-12-06 by l33ry

Via Mike Johnston's blog, and as if timed to illustrate this board's
"Greyscale vs Color" thread, The Photographers' Gallery in London just
opened an exhibit of recently rediscovered color images from the US
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, taken between
1939 and 1943.

The Guardian has a slide show and a report that wonders how our
perceptions pf the era were influenced by the black and white nature
of the record.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1959587,00.html

Or browse the collection at the Library of Congress:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html

-- Bob L

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