Historical Photography

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Great Depression
'See yourself as others see you'. The street photography craze of the 1930s-50s
abc.net.au
Commercial street photographers were a familiar sight on the streets of Australian cities during the Great Depression. The arrival of the first …
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Vintage
Kodachrome Girls: 40 Extraordinary Color Snapshots That Capture Everyday Women’s Style of the 1940s
vintag.es - Nemo Ng
Vintage style captured in amateur Kodachrome photographs showing genuine everyday women’s clothing, hair and makeup looks taken in the 1940s …
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Business (India)
Playing peek-a-boo with paint
livemint.com - Somak Ghoshal
How new technology is revealing the secrets buried in old paintings A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand stories. But what if some of those …
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The Arts
Seven Can’t-Miss Events in Boston, December 2018
bostonmagazine.com - Alene Bouranova
Including live music at Dorchester and Roxbury Stringfests, stand-up from a Daily Show alum, and a screening of the Christmas classic, Elf. By · Get our …
Harry Carsonadded this to Photo Before Colour & Before Digitallll
War
The remarkable stories behind 8 of the most iconic war photos ever taken
businessinsider.in - Daniel Brown
The first known photograph ever taken was by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827, showing a view from a window of his home in France's Burgundy …
San Antonio
San Antonio Museum of Art Receives Gift of More than 850 Photographs
artforum.com - www.artforum.com
November 28, 2018 at 2:18pm The San Antonio Museum of Art has been given more than 850 photographs, dating from the 1920s to the 1990s, by collectors …
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Awards
Is this the perfect rainbow picture? Stunning photograph of gothic Victorian castle is shortlisted for British Photography
dailymail.co.uk - Daily Mail Reporter
It seems too ideal to be true, but this spectacular photograph of a gothic Victorian castle ringed by a perfect rainbow was the result of patience... …
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Street Photography
Watch the Landmark Street Photography Documentary “Everybody Street” for Free on YouTube
Shutterbug - Dan Havlik
Cheryl Dunn’s excellent 2013 documentary about street photography, “Everybody Street,” has been available for rent (or as a purchasable download) on …
Beate Christine Hofmannadded this to Fotografie & Fotografen
Photos
Inside Madame Helena Rubinstein’s Beauty School • Inge Morath
magnumphotos.com - - Written by Hannah Tindle · Nov 19, 2018
Inge Morath Beauty class at the Helena Rubinstein Salon. New York City, USA. 1958. © Inge Morath | Magnum Photos Madame Helena Rubinstein never minced …
Photojournalism
MLive photographer Jake May wins two awards at conference
mlive.com - By Dominic Adams dadams5@mlive.com
FLINT, MI - Multimedia Specialist Jake May's image of Santa holding two infants at Hurley Medical Center has won a first place award in a contest at …
Street Photography
Inge Morath Defied the Conventions of Gender
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Magnum Foundation has released Inge Morath: An Illustrated Biography, the third volume in the Magnum Legacy Series. “Little has been published about …
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20th Century
The Extraordinary Life and Work of 20th-Century Photographer Inge Morath
anothermag.com - Belle Hutton
Who? Born in Austria in 1923, Inge Morath’s adolescent years overlapped with World War Two, during which she lived in Germany under the Nazi regime. …
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Coney Island
'Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein': Film Review | DOC NYC 2018
hollywoodreporter.com - Sheri Linden
Revered by aficionados but not widely known, a New York street photographer and his work get the spotlight in Andy Dunn's documentary. At only 17, …
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Photojournalism
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up 16 November 2018
wordpress.com - Alison Stieven-Taylor
This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – it’s all about the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney) with my reviews on the David Goldblatt …
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News (Wales)
Incredible drone footage shows war poet Hedd Wyn as you've never seen him before
dailypost.co.uk - Amelia Shaw
This breathtaking drone footage captures the true scale of the sand portrait of war poet Hedd Wyn designed especially for the 100 year anniversary of …
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Business
Are Home Prices About To Drop? - Today's Editors' Picks
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The increased use of securitized funding in the real estate markets and the aggressive easing efforts by the Federal Reserve over the past decade …
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Vietnam War
Viewfinder: Remembering Fallen Soldiers in D.C.
psmag.com - Pacific Standard Staff
A Vietnam War veteran points to names of fallen soldiers on the wall of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., on November 12th, …
National Geographic UKadded this to History
World War I
Top guns of World War I - 1
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Reuters UK
Vladimir Putin
Putin did not discuss nuclear arms pact with Trump - Ifax cites Kremlin
Reuters UK - by Maria Kiselyova
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of World War One, at the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, France, November 11, 2018. REUTERS/Yves
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Nature Photography
World leaders to commemorate 100th anniversary of the end of WWI
Mother Nature Network - Noel Kirkpatrick
Nov. 11 will mark 100 years since the end of World War I, the war that was supposed to end all wars. On Nov. 11, 1918, leaders from Germany, Britain …
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Photos
World’s Oldest Known Figurative Painting Discovered in Remote Area of Borneo
My Modern Met - Jessica Stewart
Researchers from Australia’s Griffith University have made stunning discoveries that are changing the way we think about the history of art and the development of early man. Their extensive research into
Tony Parkeradded this to Painting Art News
Art
Picture this: from €10,000 to €1.3m, what to buy at Paris Photo
theartnewspaper.com
Price points in the photography market tend to be significantly lower, and pegged at a more affordable level, than contemporary art market price …
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Greenspace
‘Living With Buildings’: A Healthy Look at How Architecture Shapes Our Wellbeing
theculturetrip.com - Charlotte Luxford
Wellcome Collection’s timely exhibition Living With Buildings examines how the structures around us affect our mental and physical health. Curator …
Photos
Military Photo of the Day: For Our Vets …
stream.org - Tom Sileo
An Ohio Air National Guard airman speaks with U.S. Army World War II veteran Roman Rywalski during a ceremony honoring veterans at the Swanton …
Vietnam War
Vietnam vets honored during Fort Polk ceremony
militarytimes.com - By: Kyle Rempfer 21 hours ago
More than 120 Vietnam War veterans attended a welcome home ceremony Thursday at Polk Army Airfield, Louisiana. The ceremony was held at the 1st …
Rick Timmeradded this to History
Photojournalism
The Scars of World War I | History | Smithsonian
smithsonianmag.com - Tomas Van Houtryve
And then sometimes I’d see a poetic contrast of very old and violent-looking barbed wire with wildflowers growing around it. I drove through French …
Reuters India
Cold War
Frail Mikhail Gorbachev warns against return to the Cold War
Reuters India - By Tom Balmforth
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, warned on Thursday against rising tensions between Russia and the United States and said there should be no return to the Cold War. The frail
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U.S. Army
An Unclassifiable Vision of New York and Paris
pdnonline.com
Louis Stettner dedicated nearly eight decades of his life to photography. In that time he created a singular approach to photographing everyday life …
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World War II
Viewfinder: An SS Guard Faces Trial for Nazi Crimes
psmag.com - Pacific Standard Staff
The 94-year-old former SS guard faces trial, charged with complicity in the mass murders at the Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War …
Seeking Alpha
Great Depression
To Rebalance Or Not? - Today's Editors' Picks
Seeking Alpha - SA Editors' Picks
Rebalancing is often seen as a rational strategy capable of helping investors buy low and sell high. In his editors’ pick, contributor Yuval Taylor …