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December 20, 2005
'Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939–43'
Few people know that,
along with the thousands of black–and–white photographs
taken by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and its successor agency,
the Office of War Information (OWI) to record American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s,
the FSA/OWI photographers also took color pictures using newly available Kodachrome film.
The first major exhibition of these little–known color images is currently up at the Library of Congress,
where it will remain through January 21, 2006 before going on tour through 2007.
Can't get to Washington, D.C. in the next month?
No problema.
Visit the online exhibition here
to see about 70 photographs from the show, some of which appear above.
[via Giv & Doe]
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Want to know a really super secret perk about the LOC that's not really super secret? You can buy prints of any negative in their collection (even film stills). Yes, for as little as $25 you can own a genuine Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange. How cool is that?
Here is the photographic services page: http://www.loc.gov/preserv/pds/photo.html
Posted by: cai | Dec 21, 2005 2:38:57 PM
