tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6261651789027839661..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Flag Waving: Labor Day in the Heartlands, 1939-1942Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88504484552306474572011-09-08T06:31:10.196-07:002011-09-08T06:31:10.196-07:00With an emphasis on the "if", an accent ...With an emphasis on the "if", an accent on the "maybe", and the definite promise of a "dream on".TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25970402953099283842011-09-08T05:57:52.415-07:002011-09-08T05:57:52.415-07:00merely the right to potentially exist. ...potentia...merely the right to potentially exist. ...potentially.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14345642404150250012011-09-08T03:31:29.901-07:002011-09-08T03:31:29.901-07:00Or for that matter... for nothing at all.Or for that matter... for nothing at all.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33283856980000344272011-09-07T10:33:54.476-07:002011-09-07T10:33:54.476-07:00working more for less and less.working more for less and less.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46829824539538093152011-09-05T07:51:50.105-07:002011-09-05T07:51:50.105-07:00Don, Phillip, many thanks.
The unselfconscious, u...Don, Phillip, many thanks.<br /><br />The unselfconscious, unposed, unsorted variety of faces in these "long gone" crowds remains very moving for me.<br /><br />A pleasure to share the morning with you both.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2453842298339611652011-09-05T06:52:24.409-07:002011-09-05T06:52:24.409-07:00Thanks Tom for posting these amazing images.Thanks Tom for posting these amazing images.Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16173249816929585949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46327184725718281052011-09-04T05:16:28.513-07:002011-09-04T05:16:28.513-07:00Yes, there they are, Tom, the faces that have disa...Yes, there they are, Tom, the faces that have disappeared, literally in more ways than one. Such different faces.<br /><br />The 2nd to last "Workers' Wives and Children" particularly - the long gone looks - unsettling for me.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-7984124507765244982011-09-04T04:42:56.440-07:002011-09-04T04:42:56.440-07:00Vassilis, The humility of Lincoln lost in thought ...Vassilis, The humility of Lincoln lost in thought and the disarming smile of the woman beneath and toward the foreground, looking off toward the little girl in striped dress at left -- the most hopeful moment here for me, as well.<br /><br />(It typifies the dignity and distance in work of John Vachon, a young man from the Midwest who was a file clerk at the Farm Security Administration, when out of the blue someone put a camera in his hands... and he became perhaps the most remarkable of the many great documentary photographers who worked for the FSA in its brief but extraordinarily productive life, from the late Thirties over into the first year of the War -- when historical documentation gave way to propaganda, as the FSA became the Office of War Information.)<br /><br />And so...there remains Uncle Sam "hammering out a warning" upon the obdurate anvil of thought, in front of Sam's Theatre (it's all in the family), representing the tank armorers. <br /><br />("Well they not only looked like tanks we called the[m] tanks"-- from The Wit and Wisdom of Ed B.)<br /><br />The electricians' unionists, on the other hand, seem relatively untroubled by cerebration of any kind, in putting their not-queer shoulders to the task of electrocuting Hitler beneath the sign of Imperial Whiskey.<br /><br />While researching the post I was put in mind of earlier not-dissimilar searches through the Deutsches Bundesarchiv photo files from the same period, uncovering similar imagery, but of course everything in reverse -- the execution of Mickey Mouse & c.<br /><br />Anthropology will be anthropology. Boys will be boys. Wars will be wars. <br /><br />Oh, and, yes, gratefully, as David reminds -- <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/arthur-siegel-women-of-home-front.html" rel="nofollow">girls will be girls (maybe)</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76988130406327070982011-09-04T02:52:29.858-07:002011-09-04T02:52:29.858-07:00Of all these striking photographs, one strikes me ...Of all these striking photographs, one strikes me the most--the one with Honest Abe, head bent in deep thought, surrounded by the <i>hoi polloi,</i> a lot of them (one would hope) also with heads bent in deep thought.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47418198952096982732011-09-03T14:05:43.469-07:002011-09-03T14:05:43.469-07:00well
what strike me squarely be
-tween the eyes is...well<br />what strike me squarely be<br />-tween the eyes is that<br /><br />warfare assembled this country & now<br />warfare is disassembling it...<br /><br />even that Detroit Plymouth sedan the Ford too!<br />and the Hudson Hornet well they not only looked like tanks we called the tanks ... chrome and steel<br /><br />neat photos ... like it was yesterday or was that<br />the<br />here today and gone tomorrow mantra ?Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53096073296656373652011-09-03T12:01:53.372-07:002011-09-03T12:01:53.372-07:00I'm in Detroit, just a couple miles from where...I'm in Detroit, just a couple miles from where all that happened. The change is unbelievable.<br /><br />There are no women workers parading down Woodward Ave now. Just working girls.Delia Psychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158noreply@blogger.com