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The following images were made by Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographers during World War II and are part of the famous FSA photography series that I have written about here. The color photographs--which were made in the first decade or so of the use of this new medium--represented only about 1,600 of the collection of 160,000 images in the FSA archive, and are far less known than their black-and-white complements, many of which are new iconic symbols for this period. The color images are beautiful works, and somehow seem to bring these historic images a little closer to the present.
[Source: the Library of Congress,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fabout.html]
Negro migratory workers by a "juke joint" (?), Belle Glade, Fla.
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.
Living quarters and "juke joint" for migratory workers, a slack season; Belle Glade, Fla. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.
A cross roads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, La.
General store, Chacon, N[ew] Mex[ico] Collier, John, 1913-1992, photographer.
General store, near Questa, Taos County, N[ew] Mex[ico]
Collier, John, 1913-1992, photographer.
General Merchandise store, Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer.
Brockton, Mass., Dec. 1940, second-hand plumbing store Delano, Jack, photographer.
Natchez, Miss. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.
Natchez, Miss. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.
John Vachon did some of the most brilliant, memorable work of this era, rivaling Dorothea Lange in my opinion. His "Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas" deserves a posting here all of its own. I paid a princely sum to have it reproduced as a very large, framed print and hang it in my home. Guests stand in awe.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179913094/
Posted by: Steve Duncan | May 30, 2013 at 09:39 AM