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The Color of History
While giving my brain a rest from making OpenLDAP talk to a MySQL server (what can I say, I'm a masochist), I found this nifty on-line exhibit of color photographs from 1939-1943. I'd become so accustomed to the perception crutch of "black-and-white photography = history" that some of these photos were almost breathtaking to me in their immediacy. They really were just folks, like us.
"bw photography = history"?! Silly boy...ANY photo = history. There have been color photos since the early 1900's. It was just the bw photos were easier and cheaper to produce.
I believe you previously posted this exhibit. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
You know what's really cool? You could go to the Library of Congress and look at the originals up close and in person! Neat huh?
Posted by: Carrie on December 14, 2005 01:37 PM