Iconic images restored and colorized. (via NPR)
Categories: Art · Photography Tags: colorized images · history · Lincoln
Iconic images restored and colorized. (via NPR)
Categories: Art · Photography Tags: colorized images · history · Lincoln
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
Mr. Perkins Pierce Arrow, Harlem, New York
1946
Todd Webb
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Street Market, Suffolk Street, New York
1946
Todd Webb
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Broadway at Wall Street, New York
1959
Todd Webb
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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
Photo by Carl Mydans. (Life Magazine)
Categories: Photography Tags: history · Italy · Mussolini · World War II
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
Poster from Apple’s Think Different campaign (1997).
Categories: Design · Photography Tags: advertising · Amelia Earhart · Apple · posters · Think Different
Henry James, age 63
Rye, England, 1906
Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966
Categories: Photography · Writers Tags: Henry James · portraits of writers
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
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
Edward Weston
(via MFA Boston)
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Josef Sudek, Morning Trolley (Prague)
1924
Gelatin silver print
26.4 x 22.9 cm (10⅜ x 9 in.)
(via MFA Boston)
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Le Grand Prix A.C.F.
Jacques Henri Lartigue
1913
Gelatin silver print
4½ x 6¾ in.
via Art Blart
Categories: Art · Photography Tags: cars · Lartigue
Untitled (woman sunbathing on roof reading), September 21, 1964
André Kertész
(via)
Categories: Books · Photography Tags: André Kertész · New York
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