Thursday, 9 February 2017

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Monday, 6 February 2017

Sunday, 5 February 2017

Saturday, 4 February 2017

Satchel Paige

Satchel Paige waiting for pool hall adversary.
Harlem, New York, 1941
Gelatin silver print

Friday, 3 February 2017

The Anarchist Roobin


Joseph Roobin. 40 years old. Born in
Bourgneuf (Loire-Inférieure). Navvy. Anarchist.
Photograph by Alphonse Bertillon1894
Albumen silver print from glass negative

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Woman With Vase

Portrait of a Young Woman
Rotterdam, ca.1860-1865
Photo: J. Baer

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Cambodia 1970


Larry Burrows (far left) struggles through elephant grass to help GIs carry
a wounded soldier to an evacuation helicopter in Mimot, Cambodia on
4 May 1970. The evacuation came during the US incursion into Cambodia.

Burrows was killed on 10 February, 1971, along with the photographer who
took this picture, Henri Huet, and two other photojournalists, Kent Potter
of UPI and Keisaburo Shimamoto for Newsweek, when their helicopter
was shot down over Laos.

Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

Sunday, 29 January 2017

Floating


A model floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida.
This image, by fashion photographer Toni Frissell, was
published in Harper's Bazaar in December 1947.

Friday, 27 January 2017

William Stanley Moore

Mug shot of William Stanley Moore, 1 May, 1925
Central Police Station, Sydney

Special Photograph no. 1399.
This picture appears in the Photo Supplement to the NSW Police
Gazette, 28 July, 1926, captioned: 'Opium dealer./ Operates with
large quantities of faked opium and cocaine. / A wharf labourer;
associates with water front thieves and drug traders.'

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Sunday, 22 January 2017

Saturday, 21 January 2017

Kee Vos-Stricker

Kee Vos-Stricker with her son Jan, ca.1879
Carte de visite

In 1881 Vincent van Gogh asked Kee to marry him.
She turned him down and replied that her past
and her future remained as one to her so that
she could never return his feelings.