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Try the Train: 1937

Submitted by Dave on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 9:53pm.
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Try the Train: 1937

California, March 1937. "Toward Los Angeles." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.

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It's like a white rural version of...

Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 6:07pm.

...Margaret Bourke-White's famous shot, "There's No Way Like the American Way", also from 1937.

 

Ms. Lange...

Submitted by mad4books on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 5:56pm.

...shows us how it's done. Again.

 

Incredible Shot

Submitted by Aaron Schaub on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 7:59am.

It made me think of "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck.

 

Magnificent

Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 11:17pm.

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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