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You are absolutely right. For example, here's the allegedly "censored" picture of a young woman carrying cranberries: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723
by newaccount74 5y ago
You are absolutely right.
For example, here's the allegedly "censored" picture of a young woman carrying cranberries: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723882/resource/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723882/resource/
And here's the very next photo on the film, without a hole punch:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8a10082/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8a10082/
The only thing this tells us is that the editor preferred the wide angle shot.
- germinalphrase 5y agoInteresting that it appears the cranberries are being harvested in dry fields. I always assumed that flooding was an old harvesting technique.
- newaccount74 5y agoLooks like they used both ways to harvest cranberries. Boy with cranberry scoop: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723915/resource/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723915/resource/ Gathering cranberries in a flooded bog (not sure what a bog is): https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723887/resource/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723887/resource/
- avnigo 5y agoThat's unfortunate, I find the blackholed photo much better in every single way than the wide shot. I guess that tells us more about the specific editor, the audience and context, or maybe just the stylistic choices of the day.