Classic Photos

[mad mike]

I have just discovered this treasure trove of photos from 1935
to 1945 done/made by the giants of that period for the F S A and the
O W I all on photogrammer .yale and by all I mean 170,000. ENJOY!

 

[charjohncarter]

Yeeks, let me get this right; you go to photogrammer.yale to get to it?

 

[summar]

Found it, here's the link:
http://photogrammar.yale.edu/

 

[telenous]

Astonishing record. Thanks for the link.

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[mad mike]

I just don't understand why there is not more interest in this exceptional archive. I've spent hours looking at it

 

[furcafe]

It appears to be the same collection as the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/) & that's been posted about many times. That Yale has added nifty interfaces to access/search the collection is news to me.

There was an exhibition of prints made from some of the Kodachromes that they showed at the LoC (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bound-for-glory/exhibition-items.html) &, IIRC, a version of it toured the country.

I just don't understand why there is not more interest in this exceptional archive. I've spent hours looking at it

 

[Mike Fish]

I'll revive this old thread because I just learned of this from an article on another site.

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/dots.php

It's worth some time poking around the map - playing with the date slider, selecting and deselecting photographers, and of course the images themselves are pretty amazing. The tree map and dashboard are cool, too - select 'view labs' under Visualizations on the home page.

Get your geek on.

-mike

 

[BillBingham2]

WOW, just WOW.

Zooming in on the map I can pick pictures take in the area or by the photographer.

Great resurfacing of an amazing archive.

Thanks.

B2 (;->

 

[hendriphile]

My favorite so far is "Grand Central Terminal," #345 in the New York City section.