TMW
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Examining Our Roots
Examining our roots - America in color, 1939-1943:
http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp
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watizname
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Don't know what it has to do with Baja, but fascinating photos.
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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Bob H
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Quote: | Originally posted by watizname
Don't know what it has to do with Baja, but fascinating photos. |
This is properly posted under a non-Baja subject line.
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Skipjack Joe
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Dorothea Lange took some great images from that era. Hers were a bit less positive though.
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jeans
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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!
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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Skipjack Joe
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More of Lange's work:
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Skipjack Joe
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The other great photojournalist of Americana of the era was Walker Evans:
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Skipjack Joe
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If nothing else you gotta love this image by Evans:
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Skipjack Joe
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Evans again:
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J.P.
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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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