AMERICA IN COLOR , 1939-1943
A SHOWCASE of GALLERIES , ART and COLLECTIONS
W h e r e C r e a t i v i t y
BOUND FOR GLORY
AMERICA IN COLOR , 1939-1943
Featuring 70 digital prints made from color transparencies taken between 1939 and 1943 by photographers of the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information ( FSA / OWI ), these vivid fullcolor portraits capture the effects of the Depression on America ’ s rural and smalltown populations and the nation ’ s patriotic response to mobilization for World War II . The photographs in “ Bound for Glory ,” many by famed photographers such as John Vachon , Jack Delano , Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott , document not only the subjects in the pictures , but also the dawn the Kodachrome era .
Above photo Title : Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper off [ ice ] ( Brockton Enterprise ) ... Brockton , Mass . Creator ( s ): Delano , Jack , 1914-1997 , photographer Date Created / Published : 1940 Dec .
Opposite page Title : Worker at carbon black plant , Sunray , Texas Creator ( s ): Vachon , John , 1914-1975 , photographer Date Created / Published : 1942
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