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| Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923–1959 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html>. Created and maintained by the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed March 27, 2005.
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| From the early 1920s until 1959, the photographer Theodor Horydczak produced tens of thousands of prints, transparencies, and negatives, almost all of them black and white. After his retirement, the Library of Congress acquired them and, in 1996, posted digital versions of 14,350 of those images as this American Memory collection. |
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Horydczak was an expert craftsman, and as a commercial photographer he recorded business subjects that complement more famous journalistic photographs of the middle twentieth century: the social documentaries of Dorothea Lange, or the breaking news of Robert Capa. We see doctors examining patients, new buildings rising (Horydczak's perspective- corrected architectural views are particularly good), and all manner of merchandise displayed in store windows or the photographer's studio. Naturally, Horydczak's home town of Washington, D.C., is particularly well represented, but he ranged as far as Canada and Europe. |
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