The Past in Color Brings Us Closer...

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Black and White photos seem to cleans the moments they capture and while giving us a peek into a life lived they tend to distance the past from us by virtue of their lack of color.

1939-1945 America in color.
-Where are the fat people?
-Shoes? We don't need no stinking shoes!
-These photos impart the feeling that something has been lost in America. Individual responsibility and the robustness that results?

1910-1915 Russia in color.
-All these people are dead; the younger ones perhaps victims of the purges.


H/T Powerline.




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