Iconic images restored and colorized. (via NPR)
Categories: Art · Photography Tags: colorized images · history · Lincoln
Photography
Copley Square, 1910
Copley Square from the roof of the Boston Public Library, ca. 1910 (Boston Public Library, via Park & Tremont)
Categories: Boston · Photography Tags: Back Bay · Copley Square · history
Harlem, 1946
Mr. Perkins Pierce Arrow, Harlem, New York
1946
Todd Webb
Categories: Art · Photography Tags: New York · Todd Webb
New York, 1946
Street Market, Suffolk Street, New York
1946
Todd Webb
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Manhattan, 1959
Broadway at Wall Street, New York
1959
Todd Webb
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Emily Dickinson was here
Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress, Amherst Historical Society, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2010 (photo: Annie Leibovitz, from Pilgrimage).
Categories: Art · Books · Photography Tags: Annie Leibovitz · Emily Dickinson
Italy, 1940
Photo by Carl Mydans. (Life Magazine)
Categories: Photography Tags: history · Italy · Mussolini · World War II
Face of the Day
Water boatman viewed in reflected light. Photo by Charles Krebs. (Click to view full size.) From the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2011.
Categories: Photography Tags: insects · nature · photomicrography
Think Different, cont’d
Poster from Apple’s Think Different campaign (1997).
Categories: Design · Photography Tags: advertising · Amelia Earhart · Apple · posters · Think Different
The Master
Henry James, age 63
Rye, England, 1906
Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966
Categories: Photography · Writers Tags: Henry James · portraits of writers
Orange sunrise
This photo, by Frans Lanting for National Geographic, has not been Photoshopped or retouched in any way. It shows a place called Dead Vlei in Namibia in the early light of dawn. Details about the making of the photo are here. (Via PDN.)
Categories: Photography Tags: landscapes
Miller & Monroe, 1957
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, 1957, by Richard Avedon.
Note to my sons: once upon a time it was very, very cool to be a writer.
Categories: Photography · Writers Tags: Arthur Miller · Marilyn Monroe · portraits of writers · Richard Avedon
Sand Dunes, Oceano, California 1936
Sand Dunes, Oceano, California 1936
Edward Weston
(via MFA Boston)
Categories: Photography Tags: Edward Weston · landscapes
Prague, 1924
Josef Sudek, Morning Trolley (Prague)
1924
Gelatin silver print
26.4 x 22.9 cm (10⅜ x 9 in.)
(via MFA Boston)
Categories: Photography Tags: Josef Sudek
Lartigue
Le Grand Prix A.C.F.
Jacques Henri Lartigue
1913
Gelatin silver print
4½ x 6¾ in.
via Art Blart
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New York, 1964
Untitled (woman sunbathing on roof reading), September 21, 1964
André Kertész
(via)
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California, 1936
Daughter of Migrant Tennessee Coal Miner Living in American River Camp near Sacramento, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1936.
Categories: Photography Tags: Dorothea Lange · portraits
