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These were dye-transfer prints made at a time when photographic 'art' was only ever in silver gelatin monochrome prints.
For the contemporary viewer these photographs would have been extremely exciting and daring.
Nowadays you can't even make dye transfer prints. They really are something else, even today.
Check out his other work, which in my opinion very good in terms of composition and attention to subject matter and colour.
His work is a real snapshot of America in his period.
