Saturday, June 21, 2014

4x5 Kodachrome

My Uncle Frank sent me this link today, its pretty cool, who knew they had 4x5 Kodachrome, and a special one of a kind machine to process it back in the 1940s. Love these 4x5 WWII era transparencies of  women factory workers in full make up without PPE (personal protection equipment). World War II changed a lot of things and pushed the womens rights movement dramaticatlly forward, now if other parts of the world can just catch up, and give rights and freedoms to 50% of their own populations.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/112027109454844199/

Here is a 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by the famous documentary depression era photographer Russell  Lee. I love the harsh direct flash look, something I can acheive with the Banrama 4x5 camera and flash.

Photo by Russel Lee
September 1940. Jack Whinery, Pie Town, New Mexico, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children in their dirt-floor dugout home. Whinery homesteaded with no cash less than a year ago and does not have much equipment; consequently he and his family farm the slow, hard way, by hand. Main window of their dugout was made from the windshield of the worn-out car which brought this family to Pie Town from West Texas. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration.