Thursday, 30 November 2017

Shirley Anne Field

English actress Shirley Anne Field, 1961
East-German postcard by
VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin

Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Portrait of a Young Woman

Young woman seated on a rock, 1880's
Photograph: Yeoman & Co.
(Powerhouse Museum Sydney)

Monday, 27 November 2017

Pont-Neuf - Paris

Les arbres des quais avec le Pont-Neuf
(Dock trees with New Bridge)
Photograph: Brassaï - 1945

One of the mascarons of the Pont-Neuf in Paris
(on the northernest bridge pier)
Photograph: Tangopaso - 2011

Sunday, 26 November 2017

Larry Burrows

LIFE photographer Larry Burrows (attaching cameras
to helicopter Yankee Papa 13) Vietnam, March 31, 1965
Unidentified Photographer

Ammunition airlift during
the relief of Khe SanhVietnam, April 1968
Photograph: Larry Burrows

Friday, 24 November 2017

Herbert Huncke & Friends

New Waverly, Texas, June 1947
Photo: Allen Ginsberg Estate

Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke,
during a photo shoot by Timothy Greenfield Sanders
for New York Magazine, September 29, 1995.
Photo: Allen Ginsberg Estate

Thursday, 23 November 2017

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

French Barque ‘Vincennes'

Three-masted French barque ‘Vincennes’ aground on
Sydney’s Manly Beach, on the night of 24 May, 1906.
Half plate glass negative
Photo: Charles H. Kerry & Co.
(Powerhouse Museum)

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Antonin Artaud

Theatre director, poet, actor, and playwright
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse

Gaston Ferdiere and Antonin Artaud
at the psychiatric hospital in Rodez, 1946

Monday, 20 November 2017

AC/DC


Singer Brian Johnson performing next to guitarists Malcolm Young and Angus Young of Australian legendary hard rock band AC/DC at the Palais Omnisport of Paris Bercy, on September 15, 1984 in Paris. - AC/DC guitarist and cofounder Malcolm Young has died aged 64, the band announced on November 18, 2017.  Photo: Jean-Claude Coutausse - AFP.

Friday, 17 November 2017

Ferdinand Schmutzer

Austrian engraver and photographer
Ferdinand Schmutzer in his studio in Vienna
Self-portrait, ca.1910

Thursday, 16 November 2017

Future Nightmares

The Nightmare of Future Wars
Workers of the World Unite!
Soviet School - 1920's
Lithograph on paper

Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Saturday, 11 November 2017

Navy Sailors

Somewhere in the Pacific, ca.1945 - Navy sailors at paint shop.
4x5 inch negative from the archives of Lt. Joseph Zinni,
U.S. Army Signal Corps.