America in Color from 1939-1943

[Oreo]

I just found these pictures from a link from Gizmodo. They are color photo's from america back in ye olden days. They are quite amazing too look at.

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog

 

[Yami]

From the quality of those photos, they might as well have been from the 70s! Cool stuff.

 

[Crysalis]

Nice find! These are incredible.

 

[patonb]

They've been enhanced for sure, as they are "reproduced" from slides.

Still very intresting.

 

[Mr. Switch]

that's awesome

 

[Oreo]

They've been enhanced for sure, as they are "reproduced" from slides.

Still very intresting.

Yeh they are but they look pretty faithful, much like they were taken with a camera from the 70's like Yami said.

 

[Mr. Switch]

omg i'm a retard..


i looked over a couple of them and thought eh yeah that's really cool, i looked at them again tonight and saw that alot of the pictures were shot by Russell Lee. Russell Lee waspart of the Farm Security Administration, and it was his job to document America during and just after the depression.

Other phenomenal FSA photographers were people like Dorthea Lange, Gordon Parks, Walker Evans (a little overrated), Arthur Rothstien, Jack Delano, these people photographed what Americans visualize the Great Depression as, LITERALLY.

Look into it!