70 year old colour photo's - stunning stuff.

Dragan

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/11275?cnn=yes

Possibly it's the simple fact that for some reason when i think of photo's that old i always think of B&W ( i blame history books in school ) these just really struck me as being quite incredible.

GhostInTheRuins

Brilliant

dazftw

Id love to know if any of the kids in the photos are still alive.. they would be about 80 now..

Really nice pictures all the same.

Crispin

I'd be happy if i could take those photos nowadays
awesome stuff
thanks

kjt

Great photos, good find!

dreamer_ire

These are great.... and I imagine no post processing either!

red_ice

phenomenal pictures imo. I would love to be able to produce something like that myself right now. Absolutely stunning.

Thanks for that

AnimalRights

Not into the very posed ones but love the rest and love the colour of teh day, so much reminds me of my Lightroom pictures.

Mycroft H

Love the shot of yer man with the giant corkscrew, sky looks very cool.....

Simplicius

thanks for finding these ......... amazing tones -

rahtkennades

Are these real? They're beautiful. The colours are so rich, the lighting is wonderful. My favourite has to be the boilermaker, the lighting is fantastic and the face could be from any era.
Thanks for the linky!

Xiney

They look amazing - must have cost a fortune per image so I very much doubt many of they images weren't "set up" in some way, AR.

Latchy

Stunning pics. Capturing a long gone period of American life .

GhostInTheRuins

How good would it be if there were as good quality photographs of the same era from Ireland?

Latchy

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

How good would it be if there were as good quality photographs of the same era from Ireland?

I am guessing there are possibly some hidden away someplace that just haven't being discovered yet .

GhostInTheRuins

latchyco wrote: »

I am guessing there are possibly some hidden away someplace that just haven't being discovered yet .

I'd like to think so at least. I have a few shots of my grandparents when they were teenagers during WWII, really small, worn away little photographs but there's still something great about them. If you look on the flickr page there's photos of funfairs and people working their land and stuff, I'd love to see pictures like that of Ireland back then.

Latchy

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

I'd like to think so at least. I have a few shots of my grandparents when they were teenagers during WWII, really small, worn away little photographs but there's still something great about them. If you look on the flickr page there's photos of funfairs and people working their land and stuff, I'd love to see pictures like that of Ireland back then.

Intresting . Great snaps indeed. I often think people throw and have thrown out of family /landscape snaps ,colour and black and white, thinking they will be of no intrest to anybody but forgetting in all innocence, they are capturing history .The pictures of 60s dublin ( in another thread ) taken by an American visitor to Dublin, in 1960 were very intresting .

stick-dan

The sheppard, his dog and horse has to be my favourite.

trishw78

Brilliant find I love the depth in some of the shots

DaireQuinlan

They're pretty amazing. 1940's so it's probably kodachrome, which you can still get today unchanged (although there's only one place in the world which still processes it). It would have been pretty slow (probably around asa 10 or so) so I'd say they're all posed, certainly the indoor ones would have been.

-edit- At the risk of being accused of schilling for 7dayshop (I've no connection with the place, I just get all my film there) ...
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_1&products_id=6175

Thats the current incarnation of kodachrome. Includes processing in the price so It's actually surprisingly cheap, for a bunch of transparencies that are likely to last considerably longer than you will :-)

jackdaw

amazing !!!

440Hz

Great selection of shots, cheers for sharing them. Really impressive stuff.

Cabaal

some lovely shots there

FinoBlad

wow these are fantastic, thanks for posting.

JOHN_70

Lots more of them here on the Library of Congress website.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/p?pp/fsaall:@filreq(@field(COLLID+fsac)+@field(COLLID+fsac))::SortBy=CALL

La La

amazing pictures, genuine and honest.

so many people today turn to photoshop to screw with their pictures, so it's always nice to see images that are great for being great. the last one and the one of the man working with the sky behind him are wonderful.