December 13, 2005
Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943
[Russell Lee photo of Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940]
The US Library of Congress site Bound for Glory collects Kodachrome color photos documenting 1939-1943 life in the US as part of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information project. Among the largest and most influential government-sponsored art projects [full gov website here], it included important works by Dorthea Lang, Walker Evans, and more--this is the first set of color images I've seen from the project, which largely used black and white.
[via metafilter.com]
Posted by johndanseven at December 13, 2005 11:05 PM