kung fu grippe — Color, Photos, and One Fuzzy Little Boy in a Field
In this vein, I may never turn up anything quite as jaw-dropping as the brilliant color images of early-1900s Russia that were made by Prokudin-Gorskii. I mean, those are like a portal into a world where we look like the monochrome simpletons—because those Russians look like they were living in fricking Oz.
I’m also frequently taken aback by color photos of World War II—they make the soldiers look like people you might see at the coffee shop tomorrow.
And, as I sit here, something really gets me about a photo I ran across last night on wikipedia. It’s a 1941 color photo of Georgia sharecroppers working a rented cotton field.
via kungfugrippe.com
