Featured in this week’s Goings on About Town section is a photograph from the current exhibition “Color Photographs from the New Deal,” at the Carriage Trade gallery. From strong young men working with the newest technologies to factory workers socializing at a communal lunch table, the Farm Security Administration strove to depict a positive and progressive America during a period of economic turmoil and low morale. Produced only three years after the invention of Kodachrome film, these photos offer an intensely saturated portrait of the domestic and industrial American landscape from 1939 to 1943. For more selection of photographs from the show: http://nyr.kr/e87pBj
All photographs courtesy of Library of Congress, Carriage Trade.
beautiful
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"This is so American, man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."
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"I think we should catch ‘em, we should document ‘em, make sure we know where they are and where they are going…I actually support microchipping them. I can micro-chip my dog so I can find it. Why can’t I microchip an illegal? That’s not a popular thing to say, but it’s a lot cheaper than building a fence they can tunnel under."
Pat Bertroche, a Republican congressional hopeful in Iowa’s 3rd district (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
A week or so back, I posted a snippet on an effort by some conspiracy theorist Conservatives to prevent the government from micro-chipping people. I opposed the idea just like I oppose any legislation stemming from paranoid delusions. It looks like I was wrong. (via squashed)
The GOP is fucking schizophrenic. Civil liberties for all, as long as you’re middle-class, white, and didn’t vote for Obama, amirite?
