Rigadoon23: July 2014

Thursday, 31 July 2014

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Things Moving

Form No.15: Things Moving, 1952

by Kōshirō Onchi

Colour woodblock print

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Valparaiso

Valparaiso, Chile, 1963

Photo: Sergio Larrain

Monday, 28 July 2014

Paparazzi

Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis

1971

Photo: Ron Galella

Sunday, 27 July 2014

Warsaw ghetto

Warsaw ghetto, Poland

1939–1943

Photo: Willy Georg

Saturday, 26 July 2014

Civil War

Soldier, Ernst Thälmann brigade,

Republic of Spain, 1936

Photo: David Seymour

Friday, 25 July 2014

Heiltsuk Mask

Heiltsuk (Bella Bella), Mask, ca.1845

Central coast, British Columbia

Wood & pigment

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Edith and Ruth

Edith and Ruth, Danville (Virginia) 1966

Photo: Emmet Gowin

Gelatin silver print

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Yakuza

Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, 1998

George ABE, right, an ex-Yakuza member and celebrity writer.

Yakuza model themselves on American gangster fashion from 1950s.

Photo: Bruce Gilden

Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Monday, 21 July 2014

Jackie at Jones Beach

Jackie at Jones Beach, Long Island, 1983

Photo: Joseph Szabo

Silver gelatin print

Sunday, 20 July 2014

John Brown

John Brown, ca.1846

Photo: Augustus Washington

Quarter plate daguerreotype

Saturday, 19 July 2014

Friday, 18 July 2014

Francis Bacon

Three Figures and a Portrait, 1975

by Francis Bacon

Oil and pastel on canvas

Thursday, 17 July 2014

Suez Canal

Suez Canal at Ismailia, ca.1858

Photo: Francis Frith

Albumen print

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst, ca1913

Photo: Matzene, Chicago

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Monday, 14 July 2014

Belshazzar's Feast

Belshazzar's Feast, 1635-38

by Rembrandt

Oil on canvas

Belshazzar's Feast is described in the Book of Daniel. The Babylonian king Belshazzar profanes the sacred vessels of the enslaved Israelites. As prophesied by the writing on the wall, and interpreted by Daniel, Belshazzar is killed and Darius the Mede succeeds to his kingdom. (Wiki)