More true found photography. It's amazing what you can find on the streets of Los Angeles when you walk everywhere rather than drive everywhere. Both prints are a bit scuffed up, but what do you expect from something on the sidewalk. When I first saw these two prints I was thinking postcard, but when I picked them up and looked at the backs, well, they weren't. Very likely from a digital camera, and ink jet prints. But where they taken by a professional photographer or an amateur?
I have four of these postcards from the 1933 Chicago World's fair, The Century of Progress. I wasn't going to publish them back-to-back, but I have to confess I also wasn't going to have such a large gap between the first and second from this series. So, the caption on the back of the card, "Official Post Card of A CENTURY OF PROGRESS 225. General Motors Building at Night." The publishers and copyright are the same as the first card which can be found by clicking on The Century of Progress Collection in labels at the bottom of the post. The GM building was designed by architect Albert Kahn and housed an assembly line, not as large as one found in an actual GM plant, but one that made actual Chevrolet cars that would be sold at the fair. Once again, I don't know why, but blogger cuts a minuscule amount of the image on horizontal images, so click on the card to bring it up in a larger window to see it edge to edge.
