Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 08/17/2007 - 9:52pm.
I still find it stunning to see a photo of this vintage with such incredible color. I don't know when Kodachrome was first introduced but it must have knocked people's socks off! No wonder Paul Simon wrote that song.
[Circa 1935. Kodachrome is a transparency film (positive as opposed to negative - the image has to be projected or backlit for viewing), so was not used much for making photographic prints (snapshots), but was widely used for color separations in publishing. Before slide projectors got popular, the public's main exposure to Kodachrome was color pictures in magazines. One of the first to use it in a big way was National Geographic. - Dave]
Submitted by Sid Morrison on Fri, 08/17/2007 - 1:01pm.
Awesome image. Everyone is just going about their business and nobody notices they are being photographed. It's like the photographer was completely invisible.
Kind of odd that there are no tables or chairs or benches anywhere. It looks very ad hoc.
[How can we tell from just one photo that there are "no tables or chairs or benches anywhere"? They're here. And here. - Dave]
