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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 10:34 AM
Examining Our Roots


Examining our roots - America in color, 1939-1943:

http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp
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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 09:48 PM


Don't know what it has to do with Baja, but fascinating photos.



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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 10:26 PM


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Don't know what it has to do with Baja, but fascinating photos.


This is properly posted under a non-Baja subject line.




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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 10:38 PM


Dorothea Lange took some great images from that era. Hers were a bit less positive though.

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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 10:47 PM


I recognized one location!

I thought to myself, "That looks like one of the old mines outside of Ouray", darned if I wasn't right!




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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 10:53 PM


More of Lange's work:

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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 11:00 PM


The other great photojournalist of Americana of the era was Walker Evans:


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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 11:03 PM


If nothing else you gotta love this image by Evans:

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[*] posted on 3-18-2013 at 11:22 PM


Evans again:

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[*] posted on 3-19-2013 at 08:15 AM


Great pictures, the Carbon Black Pictures remind me of the area I grew up in, Fortunately for everyone they closed a lot of them down after the war.
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