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Americana - 9/9/2010 9:48:27 PM

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This link showed up in my mailbox, and I just wanted to share. 70 color photos, from a time when we mostly aren't used to common, everyday moments being captured that way.

http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.html

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 4:58:05 AM

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Thanks for the glimpse into a bygone era.

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 5:06:47 AM

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wow what a great look back, the colour makes one hell of a difference, , fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing.
The other night, I watched a movie made in london in 1967 about the "London that nobody knows" with James Mason, it had a a very poignant effect on me, as I remember the fashions and the streets and styles back then, so your share from a different country and a different era gives me a real kick
again thanks:)

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 8:17:00 AM

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Wow, true art. All our fancy schmancy stuff of today will never have this visceral and real feel.

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 9:08:44 AM

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Thank you for providing me a link to revisit those photos. I remember finding them months ago and sharing them with my family.

At the bottom there are some links to other groups that are wonderful also. I love the Russian group as well as the pre 1950 American cities.

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 9:35:26 AM

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Thanks for sharing, those were haunting. I got sucked in by some of the other series linked at the bottom too. Very interesting stuff.

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 1:09:30 PM

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Brilliant. I enjoyed these a lot.

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 1:18:07 PM

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Interesting.
They look so young...

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 3:47:52 PM

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That street in Wisdom, Montana hasnt changed too much

I drove through there just a couple of years back, its real quaint.

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 7:24:16 PM

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LOL, Sanity! No, it hasn't.

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RE: Americana - 9/10/2010 10:55:08 PM

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Heritic, thanks! These are great! I LOVE old stuff like this.
And there's still plenty of big old houses in New England painted white with black shutters.
Funny, those two kids in Maine with the potatos in 1940 were dressed just like we were as kids in Massachusetts in the 1950's!

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RE: Americana - 9/11/2010 6:40:16 AM

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Thank you for sharing! I loved them :)

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RE: Americana - 9/11/2010 1:11:40 PM

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Carl Mydans and Gordon Parks, two legendary FSA photographers I had the blessings to know & represent,
would want me to provide more background on the FSA and the photos here. The Farm Security Administration was set up as the photographic arm of FDR's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression. Their assignment and dedication of all the FSA photographers throughout was to document the poverty and destitution of rural Americans in the Depression and Dust Bowl for edification of those in the cities.
The most known and compelling American photograph, Dorothea Lange's " Migrant Mother and Child", is but one of this now socially and economically priceless collection of works funded by the government ...the WPA being the greatest government "stimulus to the arts program" ever! This was a Golden Age of American Art - from early Jackson Pollack's to the negatives of these social humanist photographers of the FSA, the financial and cultural returns to the American taxpayers are inestimable...and continue to grow in value.
You might enjoy reading the early classic YOU HAVE SEEN THEIR FACES written by James Agee with FSA photos by Walker Evans. There are, of course, scores of books written since on the art of the WPA and photographs of the FSA. All are enjoyable.
Mydans and Parks would just want me to remind: The assignment and intention of all FSA(and these photos) was always to reveal stark realities of the rural Depression, with compassion and respect for their subjects, their struggles to survive, feed, house and educate their children, and maintain fidelity to American rituals...all against crushing poverty and destitution.

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