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Try the Train: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 8:53pm.
California, March 1937. "Toward Los Angeles." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
It's like a white rural version of...
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 5:07pm.
...Margaret Bourke-White's famous shot, "There's No Way Like the American Way", also from 1937.
Incredible Shot
Submitted by Aaron Schaub on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:59am.
It made me think of "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck.
Magnificent
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 10:17pm.
Now THAT is a photograph. Such powerful social commentary captured in a single image. Lange couldn't have gotten a better shot.
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