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Summary: a good research book for costumers
Review: This book is an excellent resource for costumers interested in real life garb of small towners and farmers of the 30's. It shows nice details of shoes, hats, aprons, collar styles, fabric patterns, etc. There are a few interiors and exteriers but almost every photo (like soylant green) is of people.
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Summary: Indiana the day before yesterday.
Review: Yet another collection of Farm Security Administration photographs devoted to a State, this time Indiana. I already have similar books of FSA photos, titled `Chicago and Downstate', `A Southern Illinois Album', `A Kentucky Album', `Picturing Minnesota' and `Far from Main Street', (about New Mexico) but I don't think this latest book is as good as these. The ten chapters adequately cover the years from 1935 to 1943 with an emphasis on agriculture and I think these are the weakest photos. The chapter called People and Places with sixteen photos of small town Indiana life was best, exterior shots of stores with their wares and signage (signs, ads and anything typographic was a big thing with FSA photographers) interior shots, main streets, people talking and relaxing or eating in a diner.Each chapter has a short introduction and all the pictures are photographer credited, captioned, dated and usefully they have the Library of Congress negative number, a comprehensive book list is in the back of the book. I found the photos a little grey because they are printed in a dot screen (133) that does not do justice to the quality of the images and quite a few could be better trimmed. Despite this `Back Home Again' is worth having especially if you live in Indiana and want a visual record of the day just before yesterday.
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Summary: Indiana the day before yesterday.
Review: Yet another collection of Farm Security Administration photographs devoted to a State, this time Indiana. I already have similar books of FSA photos, titled 'Chicago and Downstate', 'A Southern Illinois Album', 'A Kentucky Album', 'Picturing Minnesota' and 'Far from Main Street', (about New Mexico) but I don't think this latest book is as good as these. The ten chapters adequately cover the years from 1935 to 1943 with an emphasis on agriculture and I think these are the weakest photos. The chapter called People and Places with sixteen photos of small town Indiana life was best, exterior shots of stores with their wares and signage (signs, ads and anything typographic was a big thing with FSA photographers) interior shots, main streets, people talking and relaxing or eating in a diner. Each chapter has a short introduction and all the pictures are photographer credited, captioned, dated and usefully they have the Library of Congress negative number, a comprehensive book list is in the back of the book. I found the photos a little grey because they are printed in a dot screen (133) that does not do justice to the quality of the images and quite a few could be better trimmed. Despite this 'Back Home Again' is worth having especially if you live in Indiana and want a visual record of the day just before yesterday.
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