Career, and a look at the American Indian Museum Photography collection. In 1939, newlyreleased color film to photographers working for the u. S. Government. American history tv visited the library of congress to meet curator Beverley Brennan and not about the collection of images documenting the Great Depression and world war ii. In 19 thirties, the United States experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. It was a great drought. People were not able to make a living on their farms, they began moving other places looking for a new lands to live on. People who are in dire straits, one of the worsthit areas in the economy was agriculture. The Program Began under top well, who was one of the advisers to president Franklin Roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. This was back when we did not have television. We had radio but a lot of places did not have electricity, so they could not listen to the Radio Broadcasts to find out what was goin
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 years. There was not much emphasis placed on the color transparencies, because they were hard to handle. They were unique items. Theres only one of each. At the time, in the 1970s, it was really difficult to make a copy. It was very expensive to make a photograph. You had to make another print from the color transparency. People did not want to pay that extra money. So, these just sat on a shelf for
Jonathan marwil teaches a class on how the victims of 9 11 terror attacks are remembered, a photograph from a 9 11 victim falling from the north tower of the World Trade Center. Okay. Lets begin. So far what they have been focusing on, first of all, was the film, the images in the film done by two brothers, French Brothers 9 11. So we have looked at what . Images of the buildings and noticeably images of firefighters because they were the main focus of the film. And then last week we started talking about the 9 11 commission report. That is, how was the event investigated . And were going to continue on with that on thursday this week. What we havent looked at and what you might think is in some ways not appropriate to look at are the dead. And the dead of this event, when you think about it, if you have thought about it very much, theyre in a rather unusual position visavis the dead of other either terrorist attacks or attacks by political regimes or armies on populations, and that is
Social media. Follow us at cspan history. In 1939, Eastman Kodak company gave newly released kodachrome color film to photographers working for the u. S. Government. American history tv visited the library of congress to meet Beverly Brannan to learn about the collection of color images documenting agricultural life and war production during the Great Depression and world war ii. Beverly in the 1930s, the United States experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. The great drought. People were not able to make a living on their farms. They begin moving other places, looking for a new lands to live on. People were in dire straits. One of the worst hit areas in the economy was agriculture. A Program Began under tugwell who was one of the advisers to president Franklin Roosevelt to document the conditions under which people reliving. Were living. This is back when we did not have television. We had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity. So they could not
The library has a collection of 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 years. There was not much emphasis placed on the color transparencies, because they were hard to handle. They were unique items. Theres only one of each. At the time, in the 1970s, it was really difficult to make a copy. It was very expensive to make a photograph. You had to make another print from the color transparency. People did not want to pay that extra money. S