extensive collection of Kodachromes

[steve hyde]

....many of the Kodachrome fanatics around here will likely take interest in the extensive collection of color images now on view at the U.S. Library of Congress website. It looks like most of them are Kodachrome.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

[etimh]

....many of the Kodachrome fanatics around here will likely take interest in the extensive collection of color images now on view at the U.S. Library of Congress website. It looks like most of them are Kodachrome.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Yeah, just LOOK at them for awhile. Some of them are so unbelievably beautiful.

Thanks for posting this link Steve.

Tim

[Thomas JI]

How can you tell what year they were shot in? MAN DO THESE LOOK BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im gonna bookmark this one.

As im looking at the faces of these people, what a difference from then to now. It seems that facial structures have changed considerably. Wierd.

[tlatosmd]

As im looking at the faces of these people, what a difference from then to now. It seems that facial structures have changed considerably. Wierd.

That's odd, I use to think the same way. Around 1970, faces/heads looked most round and content/happy, before and after that it's a transition from (when going back) and to (when going forward) pointy, sharp, and grumpy/upset.

[fastwind]

"As im looking at the faces of these people, what a difference from then to now. It seems that facial structures have changed considerably. Wierd. "

Those people didn't eat food pumped full of hormones. They didn't
have problems like ozone depletion or smog.

[etimh]

Its all about 1968--EVERYTHING changes after this.

Tim

[Alex_W]

i wonder who's responsible for the habit of smiling for a photograph. In the old days people could just look grumpy and agitated. No photographer yelling 'cheese' all the time. Those were the days

[Thomas JI]

Take this picture for instance. Do 20 year old women look like this these days? The facial structures seem to be stronger and more rigid than they are today. Its been a trend im seeing in these pictures.

[steve hyde]

How can you tell what year they were shot in? MAN DO THESE LOOK BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im gonna bookmark this one.

As im looking at the faces of these people, what a difference from then to now. It seems that facial structures have changed considerably. Wierd.

This series is 1939 to 1945, which were not exactally fat times in the USA. Working class American's were hungry and thin in the wake of the depression. Kodachrome hit the market in about 1935 - I think they are virtually all Kodachromes...

[steve hyde]

This is a remarkable portrait too...