WW2 in color

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Are these genuine?
World War II: The American Home Front in Color - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
If so, they are amazing.

 

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Yes Marcel, they are genuine. Many were taken on Kodachrome 25 stock, with plate cameras used for some of the ground shots, AFAIK.

 

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Yep,and some I've not seen before. They are mostly carefully posed but that doesn't detract at all from their quality.
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Yeah, the staging doesn't detract at all from their quality. There are some great shots there!

 

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they are part of a whole series...several more installments are yet to come. they are all work looking at.

World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

 

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And most are a very very small part of a series from the US Archives , from a featured exhibit from about 5 years ago
which I cannot find
ARC Galleries

 

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