Sunday, 20 May 2018

Saturday, 19 May 2018

Wedding Portrait

Mr. & Mrs. L. Fernald, ca.1902
C.M. Bell Portrait Studio Washington, D.C.
5 x 7 inch glass plate negative
(Library of Congress)

Thursday, 17 May 2018

Brighton

Photo: Dorothy Bohm

Aquarium - Brighton, England, ca.1890
Photochrom colour print
(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Trans-Antarctic Expedition

HMS Endurance trapped in
Antarctic pack ice, February, 1915
Photo: Frank Hurley

Sir Ernest Shackleton, taken during the
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1916
Photo: Frank Hurley

Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Saturday, 12 May 2018

Citizen Kane


Actor/director Orson Welles stepping out of taxi in front of Palace Theater with neon lights spelling out "Orson Welles Citizen Kane," New York City, 1941. Photograph: W. Eugene Smith

Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane.
RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle.

Friday, 11 May 2018

Lattice Stinkhorn Fungus

The lattice stinkhorn fungus, Clathrus crispus.
Photographed in Casal de Ermio, Coimbra,
Portugal by David Gough, 2006

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Industrial Buildings

Graf Moltke colliery, in the
Gladbeck district of Gelsenkirchen, 1952-1953
Photograph: Albert Renger-Patzsch

Ford Plant, 1927
Gelatin silver print

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Bathing

In the bath at the Chiltern Firehouse, February, 2016
Photo: Emma Elizabeth Tillman (Self-portrait)
Photographic print on fiber paper

Monday, 7 May 2018

Robert Cornelius

The first photographic portrait image
of a human ever produced, 1839.
Robert Cornelius, (Self-portrait)
(Quarter plate daguerreotype)

Sunday, 6 May 2018

Civil War

A woman looks at a government cluster bomb in Tigray
in 1989 during the Ethiopian Civil War.
Photo: John Reardon

Friday, 4 May 2018

Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Lake Chautauqua

Steamer landing, Lake Chautauqua
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative
(Detroit Publishing Company)