So, just a day after I posted my bit on photo archives, poet Jill Alexander Essbaum shared a link on Facebook of a wonderful series of pictures from the Library of Congress she found at the Denver Post’s photoblog….
These photos are in color, and it's that color gives these photos for me at least a dreamlike—even nightmarish—quality, a surreal familiarity that in the end feels really, really disturbing. I know this world—I knew people who actually grew up in this world—but it’s not the world we know now. At all. As always, I’m left looking at the faces and wondering who these people were, and what happened to them….
These photos are in color, and it's that color gives these photos for me at least a dreamlike—even nightmarish—quality, a surreal familiarity that in the end feels really, really disturbing. I know this world—I knew people who actually grew up in this world—but it’s not the world we know now. At all. As always, I’m left looking at the faces and wondering who these people were, and what happened to them….
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