Real America

[Anaesthesine]

Check out these absolutely stunning color slides from the early 1940s:

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

Taken by Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographers, these look like something from a dream, or a movie...

 

[joe frady]

Thank You! They were heart-stoppingly beautiful.
I love how Doris Caudill still wears her bright red nail varnish

You don't get that in Dorothea Lange!

I love this one. There's something really haunting about the girl in the middle, like her eyes are speaking out to you, seventy years on, saying.....

 

[platypus]

wow. those pictures are amazing.

 

[billy scissors]

The one on the right looks like a young Biffa Bacon's mum

 

[dunya]

Amazing photos. Thanks for sharing.