I Stumbled Upon this website a few days back and found it fascinating. Before I read the Overview, I didn’t realize that these photographs were actually from the 1940s. I thought they were just some conceptual art project (e.g. “What if we always had color photography?”). The photos are so clear and vibrant, it’s almost hard to imagine such great prints coming from 70-year-old technology. Seeing these scenes in color makes them more real (to me) and allows us to see what everyone else saw in the time after the Depression and during the Second World War.
From the page:
“Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI). Comprised of seventy digital prints made from color transparencies taken between 1939 and 1943, this exhibition reveals a surprisingly vibrant world that has typically been viewed only through black-and-white images.”
2 children playing with model airplane/Robstown, Texas, January 1942
South Water St. depot of the Illinois Central RR/Chicago, Illinois, May 1943
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