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Color photos from the Great Depression

I've seen these before but I can't remember where. Probably at shorpy. Anyway, yeah the kodachrome is absolutely fantastic.
 
Very nice pictures but the depression was essentially over in 1939. Not that it matters much. Times were still tough even then.
 
LTC8K6 said:
That rich color and "pop" to those images is probably because of Kodachrome.

You just don't get that with anything else. Good Kodachromes have a look all their own.
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IMO, there's definitely more to it than just the film. For example, those really old 1910ish Russian color photographs by Prokudin-Gorskii, they give off the same creepy vibes.
 
thecrecarc said:
IMO, there's definitely more to it than just the film. For example, those really old 1910ish Russian color photographs by Prokudin-Gorskii, they give off the same creepy vibes.
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Creepy? No. A lot of photographers like the artistic effect you can get with monochrome. However, I think these old colour photos add a deeper sense of realism, especially to modern audiences. It's like Oz's technocolor wonder world versus the bland sepia of Kansas.

And yeah, that one girl definitely inherited her dad's looks. I'd laugh if she turned out to be a famous person though. Who knows. ^_^
 
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Grandpa Guido
 
weird seeing that title from a UK source, and looks like about every picture is actually during the war period.
 
Those photos are hardly a "bleak" portrayal of the Great Depression. All of them look like the lucky ones who weren't touched too badly by the depression; eating plate fulls of food, having a job, having a home, buying produce at market, storefronts that are still open, etc. I've seen plenty more "bleak" Depression-era photos than those.
 
What a difference the color makes. It actually looks a lot like today. Welding equipment looks the same, old guy on a horse looks like modern old guys on horses, shiny new airplanes look nice, dirt poor family has 5 kids for no apparent reason.
 
I thought everyone smoked a ton back then? Yet I don't see one picture of that.

And lol at the fruit, $00.01 for an orange. Today that same orange will cost you and arm and a leg.
 
paperfist said:
I thought everyone smoked a ton back then? Yet I don't see one picture of that.

And lol at the fruit, $00.01 for an orange. Today that same orange will cost you and arm and a leg.
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Your body parts must be cheap...Oranges were $0.39/lb at one grocery store a couple of nights ago, and $0.69 at another.
 
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