- Annotation on original negative jacket.
- This image in a jacket marked "Killed"
Sometimes a image well makes you think about.....this is one of them.

Strong image, exceptional colorization. His thoughts? His life joys and expectations? Quality and details are really good of this photo. Circumstances draw you in, you stop and think, and think again, and wonder...

---Annotation on original negative jacket. This image in a jacket marked "Killed"---

Rob, I've read these above quoted notes below the original B&W image as well.
These notes combined with the title 'Untitled' (☺) make it to an intriguing image. The by your colorization process used appropriate tones enhance this indefinable feeling.
Join me in Vicki's 'hit the head on its nail' comment above!
Very good work again, my friend!

I agree that it does make for interesting what happened, and of course you did a fantastic job. tigs=^..^=

Not your run of the mill portrait Rob. This one has some flair and artistry. He is probably just looking out a window, but it has the feel of him sitting on a train and watching the countryside go by.
Since it was taken in 1944 killed makes you think the worse. It is probably someone looking over what the ravages of war has brought. Maybe he is returning to a home that is no longer there. What a great justice you did for the original photographer.

TicK

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The photographs of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive photographic record of American life between 1935 and 1944. Part of the project focused on the lives of sharecroppers in the South and migratory agricultural workers in the midwestern and western states. As the scope of the project expanded, the photographers turned to recording both rural and urban conditions throughout the United States as well as mobilization efforts for World War II. The collection consists of about 175,000 b&w film negatives and transparencies, 1,610 color transparencies, and around 107,000 b&w photographic prints, most of which were made from the negatives and transparencies. Rejected images were classified as "killed." In earlier phases of the project a hole was sometimes punched through the "killed" negatives. The rejected images are usually near duplicates and alternate views of a printed negative. So in this case, the "killed" designation has nothing to do with the man but rather an image that was not printed at the time it was captured. It doesn't mean it was of poor subjective or technical quality, but rather it was one of several very similar photos, probably of the same man, and a different exposure was printed. The fact that this one has no hole in it means it came later in the project rather than earlier. Considering the description of the program and the man's clothing and environment, my guess is that he was a worker heading somewhere to do farm labor, an extremely important home front activity, for both men and women, promoted by the U.S. Department of Labor with posters like this one. (yes, to the youngsters here at Caedes; back then people dressed up--see the man's tie--to travel... pajamas in public were frowned upon) [oP ;oD

-Nik

...Rejected images were classified as "killed." ...

Thanks for your insightful narrative Nik always handy to have a History Buff on hand explains a lot.

Rob

Oh my, I really like this one, outstanding and looks so real plus natural.