Well it's an early Sunday morning and I am posting something different today. A fellow blogger friend, Lisa, from the most hilarious blog, Smacksy, posted an amazing link on her blog today that I really had to share with you all. The photo blog from the Denver Post posted a collection of archived photos depicting the effects of the Depression on rural/small town communities across America. Most of them are from the years between 1939-1943. (My father was a baby, my mother not even a presence yet on the landscape.) The most amazing part of the photos is that they are in color. (Not fake color, but real color film.)
I have spent many moments shuffling through my parent's and grandparent's old black and white photos from a time that is so distant from my own. Viewing them in black and white has always created such a veil of separation that I strain to connect with the life I see in them.
When I linked over to the Denver Post's pictures I was immediately struck. Maybe it is because I connect so strongly to photographed moments (and am hence forever trying to capture them) I sat mesmerized with these images. I could not scroll slow enough. Viewing them in color immediately connected me, as if I were viewing moments that happened yesterday. As if I were the photographer visiting a world miles away, rather than years away. As you scroll through them I hope you take the time to soak up the fascinating details: the culture and poverty displayed in the landscape, architecture, and clothing.
Grab your family and click here. You will not be disappointed.
Have a blessed Sunday.
xoxo
