September 2–November 12, 2006
Bound for Glory: America in Color
Organized by the Library of Congress, this exhibition of seventy little-known color photographs is unique. Taken by photographers of the FSA/OWI between 1939 and 1943, the prints reveal a surprisingly vibrant world that has typically been revisited only through black-and-white images.
The photographs in this exhibition were taken by photographers working for the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI) during the Kodachrome era between 1939 and 1943. The images reveal a surprisingly vibrant world that has typically been viewed only through black-and-white images. The photographs, many by famed photographers such as Jack Delano, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott, vividly reveal the effects of the Great Depression on America’s rural and small town populations, the nation’s subsequent economic recovery and industrial growth, and the mobilization for World War II.