CSPAN3 American Artifacts 1930s-40s Color Photographs Part 2 July 12, 2024
Color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s. They started as an experiment with color film. Kodak was just putting its color film on the market. Sent it out to photographers at institutions to give it a try, to see if they could create a market for it. The pictures were free. So they were appealing to newspapers, magazines, publishing agencies, book publishers. That kind of thing. I was familiar already with the black and white photographs. There are about 171,000 Farm Security administration and office of war information blackandwhite photographs. And i had been working with those for a few ye...
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