Color photos of Depression-era America
Denver Post’s photo blog posts 70 incredible images
The Denver Post posted on its photo blog Monday 70 images by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information that were used in the 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. The photos of of America and its citizens span from 1939-1943 and have a surreal, cinematic quality to them. It’s a rare thing to see photos of this era rendered so vividly in color, as we’re most familiar with Dorothea Lange’s iconic black-and-white Depression-era/dustbowl imagery, and now more so with Peter Sekear, whose work is currently on view at the High.
Spooky is all I can say about my favorite of the collection on the DP’s site:
- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
- Worker at carbon black plant. Sunray, Texas, 1942. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Worker at carbon black plant John Vachon.