American Tenants, 1937, Colorized Ritual 1944Location: Exeter Airfield

1944Location: Exeter Airfield

I began trying to map where each colour is

FSA/OWI photographer Jack Delano found himself taking photographs at the Greene County Fair

Then he let the Titanic go on again toward the open water

American Tenants, 1937, Colorized Ritual 1944Location: Exeter AirfieldABOUT THIS PHOTOGRAPH I cannot help but think Russell Lee either shot the Landers at an opportune moment, or simply staged the tenant farmers to resemble Grant Wood's seminal painting American Gothic, painted less than a decade earlier though separated by half a day by car, Wood's location of the iconic couple is only a state away in Iowa. In Lee's close photograph of the Landers', husband and wife wear a contemporaneous version of farmers' clothing,