American Tenants, 1937, Colorized Ritual would also see action in

would also see action in the invasion of southern France and the occupation of Okinawa halfway across the world a year later

Taken: October 1941Location: Greene County

I began trying to map where each colour is

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

- Christian Wolmar

American Tenants, 1937, Colorized Ritual would also see action inABOUT 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,