Friday, 29 June 2018

Mr. Kahlo & His Daughters

Guillermo Kahlo, Self-portrait, 1920
Gelatin-bromide silver on paper

Cristina, Matilde, Adriana, and Frida Kahlo, 1916
Photograph: Guillermo Kalho
Gelatin-bromide silver on paper

Thursday, 28 June 2018

In Search of Lost Time

Promenade and Grand Salon,
Trouville, Normandy, France. ca.1895
Photochrom Colour Print

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

De Gracy & Dalton


Mug shot of De Gracy (sic) and Edward Dalton. Details unknown.
Central Police Station, Sydney, around 1920.

Special Photograph no. 129. A cropped print of this photograph appears in a police photo book from the 1920s, annotated in pencil "magsmen", with no further information offered.

Magsman: A confidence trickster.
A person who likes telling stories; a raconteur.

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Mr and Mrs Andersson

Mr. and Mrs. Andersson, 1930s
(The verger Andersson, born in 1858)
Photo: Einar Erici

Monday, 25 June 2018

Joann Crane

Joann Crane with portrait
of her father Abraham Crane, 1862
Unidentified Photographer

Sunday, 24 June 2018

World War 2


A young English boy sits reading outside the ruins of a bookshop that suffered Luftwaffe bomb damage during the London Blitz.  8th October, 1940.  AP Photo


U.S. Navy Lt. Lawrence Britton on lookout duty, aboard the USS Nassau, nearly two years after the surprise strike by the Japanese in 1941. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA. October 1943.

Saturday, 23 June 2018

Jacob Riis' New York

Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend
New York City, ca.1888
Photograph: Jacob Riis
(Library of Congress)

Mullen’s Alley, Cherry Hill
New York City, 1888
Photograph: Jacob Riis

Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Sunday, 17 June 2018

Big Ladies

Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1990
Photograph: William Klein
Gelatin silver print

Saturday, 16 June 2018

Corner Bookstore

Old Corner Bookstore (first brick building in Boston)
8 x 10 in. glass plate negative ca.1900
(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Old Corner Bookstore, Boston, ca.1900 (Detail)
(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Man with Pistols

Untitled (Man with pistols) ca.1860
Sixth-plate daguerreotype, delicately tinted
Unknown photographer

Sunday, 10 June 2018

French Open 2018

Paris, France

Spain’s Rafael Nadal plays a backhand return to Italy’s Simone Bolelli during their men’s singles first round match of the 2018 French Open tennis tournament. Photo: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images. (theGuardian)