Americana - rural photos from 1939-43

ozymandius

Interesting collection.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

Tallon

Already post...... Oh wait, these are not russian!


Cheers for the link, great photos

Third Eye

Fantastic link..thanks. I'm so used to that period being black & white that these images take a bit of getting used to.

Barname

mucho gracias

nilhg

Cheers, very interesting link.

B0X

I especially like the photo of the shop front with the big Coke logo on it. Really shows how timeless it is.

magicbastarder

i'm fairly certain i've seen #61 before; not sre where it was though.

hmboards

So strange to see this period in colour. Wonderful stuff!

sNarah

Not to be mean or anything, but do a lot of people in these pictures not look a bit... "odd"? I think they do.

Kintarō Hattori

sNarah wrote: »

Not to be mean or anything, but do a lot of people in these pictures not look a bit... "odd"? I think they do.

Well I dunno about odd but they certainly look different. Times were harsher so I guess you can say they look a little 'beaten' or 'worn down'.

sNarah

Suppose you're right. Just struck me.

magicbastarder

bugger - i can't remember the photographer - there's a famous b&w portrait of two farm workers, i think south african or australian, and they're both a little bet looking. anyone know the shot i'm thinking of? it's annoying me that i can't remember whose it is.

PaulieC

sNarah wrote: »

Not to be mean or anything, but do a lot of people in these pictures not look a bit... "odd"? I think they do.

I don't think that they look any more odd than modern day people living in the same circumstances. Esecially in the more rural areas of the US, where life probably isn't that much different now than it was then

Oink

Amazing stuff. Thanks for that OP.

Sir Gallagher

Wow, incredible collection of photos there, the colour just really brings them to life.

In keeping with the threas I was going to post a collection of photo's called Brutal New York but it seems the link isn't working anymore which is a real shame.

newbridgemom

great pictures! thank you for finding them. i'm american from pennsylvania and some of the rural scenes look like what you could still see today. for example the red barn and the farmers with carts (except the carts belong to the mennonites!).

wonder what kind of cameras they were using then? i'm tinkering with some old film cameras because i'm getting bored with digital. bought a zeiss icon and a welta weltini i'm excited to start to using. unfortunately i can't get my Petri 7 to work

bullpost

Me too - I suspect it was here : http://www.shorpy.com/

magicbastarder wrote: »

i'm fairly certain i've seen #61 before; not sre where it was though.