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Shorpy.com and Alfred Palmer Blow My Mind
The following are all images that were taken in 1941 and 1942 by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information. These are large-format Kodachrome...
The following are all images that were taken in 1941 and 1942 by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information. These are large-format Kodachromes (4×5) that were posed, as studies for recruitment posters, and exhibits (propaganda, my friend). There are hundreds of them in the Library of Congress FSA/OWI archive, which means they are public domain. I found them on Shorpy, which calls itself the 100-Year-Old Photo Blog, and brings many of these public domain images to light, and also offers high-quality archival prints of them here. I have spent many, many hours on this site, and I just can’t get enough of it. I mean, these Kodachromes! Can you believe it? Shorpy has caption information and larger versions of these images here.
I mean, I knew about the FSA photographs (mostly b&w) by the likes of Dorothea Lange and Lewis Hine and Walker Evans and others, but I just totally missed these.
*There’s more!
What else are you trying to insinuate, Alfred? (other than war means jobs and bravery…)
Also: Turns out The Library of Congress has a flickr! See more of the large-format color images from the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (by many photographers), created between 1939 and 1944. The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division also preserves the original photographs and offers the digital copies to ensure their wide availability.
Is my mind the only one that is blown?
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