Rare color pixs of Depression Era & WWII
The title of Walker Evans and James Agee’s extraordinary work of literary photojournalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, may have lost some of its ironic edge with subsequent acclaim and the fame of its writer and photographer. First begun in 1936 as a project documenting the largely invisible lives of white sharecropping families in rural Alabama, when the book appeared in print in 1941 it only sold about 600 copies. But over time, writes Malcolm Jones at Daily Beast, “it has established itself as a unique and enduring mashup of reporting, confession, and oracular prose.” As essential as Agee’s documentary prose poetics is to the book's appeal, Evans' photographs, like those of his many Depression-era contemporaries, have served as models for generations of photographers in decades hence.
Site:
http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/1600-rare-color-photographs-depict-life-in-the-u-s-during-the-great-depression-world-war-ii.html
NOTE: Site has link to entire color collection at:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/fsa-owi-color-photographs/about-this-collection/
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