Monday 31 May 2021

Hartford


Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1907. Young Men's Christian Association building, Pearl and Jewell Sts. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. (Shorpy)

Sunday 30 May 2021

Saturday 29 May 2021

Magpie

Magpie, Pica pica, around Vaxholm, Sweden
Photograph: Bengt Nyman, 20 April 2016

There are references dating back to Old English in which the bird is called a "pie", derived from Latin pica; this term has fallen out of use. There was a tendency in previous centuries to give birds common names, such as Robin Redbreast (which now is called the robin), Jenny Wren, etc. It is thought likely that the magpie was originally variously Maggie Pie and Mag Pie. The term "pica" for some pregnant women's craving to eat non-foods is related to the tendency of the magpie (Pica pica) to feed on miscellaneous things. (Wikipedia)

Friday 28 May 2021

Boot-Blacks

A Group of Boot-Blacks in Bowdoin Square
Boston, Massachusetts, October 1909
Photograph: Lewis Wickes Hine

Thursday 27 May 2021

Tuesday 25 May 2021

Ada Lovelace


Watercolor portrait of Ada Lovelace by Alfred Edward Chalon, ca.1838

Ada Lovelace was a renowned British scientist and mathematician (and daughter of the poet Lord Byron). She is widely considered one of the world’s first computer programmers.

Saturday 22 May 2021

France 1944


A member of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) poses with his Bren gun at Châteaudun. 1944, United States Army Signal Corps photograph. 


Members of the Maquis in La Trésorerie (a hamlet part of Wimille, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France). 14 September 1944, Donald I. Grant, Department of National Defence.

Friday 21 May 2021

Two Girls

Two Girls Waffle House, Anchorage, Alaska, ca.1910
Forms part of Frank and Frances Carpenter collection
(Library of Congress)

Thursday 20 May 2021

If The Noose Fits

Dime Detective, February 1950
Artwork by Norman Saunders

Dime Detective Magazine, July 1950
Artwork by Norman Saunders

Tuesday 18 May 2021

Portraits

Portrait of a young couple
Germany, ca.1905

Portrait of a young man, n/d
Powerhouse Museum Sydney, AU

Monday 17 May 2021

Goshka Macuga

Goshka Macuga for Polish Vogue

Polish-born, London-based artist Goshka Macuga is interested in the history of ideas — from modernism and futurism to communism and fascism. She takes concepts that could be dry or abstract and makes them relevant. Sometimes frighteningly so. Ranging from collages to plays and to humanoid robots, Macuga works across different media, often challenging the notion of authorship by collaborating with other artists or by acting as collector/curator and displaying others’ work.

Goshka Macuga
Photograph: Kasia Bobula

Friday 14 May 2021

Raymonde de Laroche

Raymonde de Laroche. Mme. Delaroche Laroche, a French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an airplane pilot's license. She was born Elise Raymonde Deroche. (Photograph: Library of Congress)

On 18 July 1919, de Laroche, who was a talented engineer, went to the airfield at Le Crotoy as part of her plan to become the first female test pilot. She co-piloted an experimental aircraft (whether she flew this is not known); on its landing approach the aeroplane went into a dive and crashed, killing both de Laroche and the co-pilot. (Wikipedia)

Wednesday 12 May 2021

Tuesday 11 May 2021

Hollywood, California


Gasoline filling station at night. Hollywood, California. April 1942. Photo by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information.

Monday 10 May 2021

Andrew & Silas


Sgt Andrew Martin Chandler of the Forty Fourth Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company F, and Silas Chandler, family slave, with Bowie knives, revolvers, pepper-box, shotgun, and canteen. Between1861 and 1863. Photograph: Library of Congress. (Prints and Photographs Division).

Friday 7 May 2021

Thursday 6 May 2021

Gerhard Richter

Woman with Child
by Gerhard Richter - 2005
Frequency modulated offset print in
colours, on white cardboard.

Tuesday 4 May 2021

Figures in a Head

Untitled (Figures in a head)
by Asger Oluf - ca.1960/1963
Oil on fiberboard - 50 x 70 cm.

Monday 3 May 2021

Phoebe & Kurt


Phoebe Philo on the September 2002 cover of the Face, fashion directed by Heathermary Jackson. Photograp Archive cover image supplied by HYMAG


Kurt Cobain on the September 1993 cover, shot by David Sims. Photograph Archive cover image supplied by HYMAG

Sunday 2 May 2021

View from Holt Hill


HMS Ark Royal taken from the top of Holt Hill in Birkenhead, April 1950. Photograph: E Chambré Hardman. (The National Trust Photolibrary/Alamy)