Itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio (LOC)

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969, photographer.

Itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio

1938 Aug.

1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

Notes:
 Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Subjects:
 United States--Ohio--Columbus.

Format: Nitrate negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a18478

Call Number: LC-USF33- 006582-M2

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    meg'n, TenYearsGone, BlueSun2600, RS_Photographs, and 210 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Cassies grandma (43 months ago | reply)

    What a nice looking man. I hope he earned enough to live on.

  3. Steven Beard LRPS (43 months ago | reply)

    History in the making

  4. bsaundersseattle (43 months ago | reply)

    This man is an exact contemporary of my grandfather, 1898-1971. I have photos I love of Grandpa wearing just these kinds of clothes and hats.

  5. turbine blade (43 months ago | reply)

    This photographer must have developed the photos in the back of the camera. I have seen something like this years ago. It was almost instant photography at the time. I would like to see the detaila of how this was done.

  6. boxcustom (43 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called film shooter, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  7. Carlin Felder (43 months ago | reply)

    Ben Shahn was a great American painter.. I forgot he also did photography....

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shahn

  8. ~ Liberty Images (43 months ago | reply)

    Delightful photograph. And the gentleman in the picture looks so very kind!

  9. Crabbles (43 months ago | reply)

    excellent portrait!

  10. Tsirkus Fotografika (42 months ago | reply)

    From what I know, they used a direct positive paper that was developed in a single bath developer/fixer and the images were then superficially rinsed in a bucket of water. All those street photos are probably laced with chemicals, but miraculously many have survived well. The images were often of poor contrast.

    Later photographers used print paper and then would first make a paper negative and then re-photograph using an easel attachment on the front of the camera to make a positive.

    There are still photographers in places like Afghanistan doing this, but their numbers are dwindling due to the proliferation of digital photography. The LA Times recently ran an article on them.

  11. spickardpowell (40 months ago | reply)

    I love the direct eye contact between two photographers.
    It's so cool to see mutual equality and acknowledgment between them way back then.

  12. The Third-Eye (34 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Photographer Photographed (People who take Photographs), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  13. Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com (34 months ago | reply)

    Priceless....so great !

  14. Heart of Áfrika Designs (30 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Afrikan Portraits (Photographic, Fine Art, Tribal & Scenic), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  15. This photo was invited and added to the Áfrikan Portraits group.

  16. This photo was invited and added to the Man @ work group.

  17. trialsanderrors (17 months ago | reply)

    Ben Shahn, sadly without camera:


    www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000011250/PP/

  18. canonhandler (17 months ago | reply)

    In 1930s....for AAs...I just wonder whether that restaurant allowed colored or not....

  19. This photo was invited and added to the Pictures of Ohio group.

  20. G Luff (11 months ago | reply)

    great shot

  21. Chem-Tex (10 months ago | reply)

    Great Photo!
    Carpet Cleaning Machines

  22. This photo was invited and added to the Photofusion Film and Darkroom group.

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