Thursday, December 29, 2016

New York, New York ...

Manhattan circa 1908. Times Square and New York Times building.

Once upon a time ...

King Carol II of Romania with his son Mihai, future King of Romania.

Exotic

 
Icon. Jonny Depp. Unknown.

Captain, my captain...

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888 - 1959), British soldier, artist and cartoonist. 1918, by Pirie MacDonald.



Magic moment



The Artist

Arnold Newman, Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France 1954

NY break

A worker cools off in the heat with a can of cold beer, with Brooklyn Bridge, New York, in the background, 1955. Photo by Three Lions, Getty Images

Colors

Mayan warrior. Unknown.



8.13 am

A clock in Pennsylvania Station. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. New York City, March 1943.

Icon. Keanu Reeves



Human horse

1915, 650 Officers and Enlisted Men of the Auxiliary Remount Depot No3 26, Camp Cody, Deming NM

Unknown beauty. 1940



Pray

1942. Unknown


Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Passion

Not old, but good. Unknown


Paris, February 1948

by Dmitri Kessel


Civil war

Confederate prisoner after the battle of Gettysburg. Detail, Mathew Brady, July 3, 1863.


Constanta, Romania, 1937. Unknown



Joy

by Taro Taylor

Unknown

by Sebastião Salgado


Bad Santa?


Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1961

Purana Qila, a vast refugee camp in Delhi, India, 1947. Unknown



1950' Manners. Unknown



Icon. Greta Garbo


Sunday, November 20, 2016

Passion. Unknown.



Homecoming soldier

Ernst Haas -  Vienna, 1946-1948


Gentle whispers

Icon. Steve McQueen. Unknown.



Pray



Old times...

Dmitri Kessel, Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain, February 1957.

Icon. Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood by Anton Corbijn, cca 1994


Crazy history!

Ben Shahn
Sign on a restaurant- We Cater to White Trade only, taken in Lancaster, Ohio, USA, August 1938.



Tuesday, May 05, 1970

Anti-War Demonstrator Throwing Tear Gas.
Unknown.




Not old, but good! Rio de Janeiro



WWI trenches

A British soldier eats his dinner in the trenches, 1917. Unknown



Saturday, November 12, 2016

Not old, but good

Rasputin by Kelco.


La blouse Roumaine, la beauté Roumaine.

Princess Ileana of Romania, 1923.



1930. Job hunting. Unknown.



London, May 1944.

Hyde Park. Photograph by Ralph Morse.

Crazy history. Unknown.

Citizens having to greet invading German troops.



Icon. Another face of Dracula

Bela Lugosi and his first wife, Helena Szmik - 1918. Unknown.



Daguerrotype. Unknown.

Alvin Adams, ca 1850.



East Africa, 1967-1968. Unknown

A Maasai girl and a warrior.



Icon. Joaquin Phoenix



Sunday, October 30, 2016

Emptiness

Photograph by Thomas McAvoy, May 1960. Unknown place.



Paris 1935

Notre Dame de Paris, 1935. Photo Roman Vishniac, Russian, 1897 – 1990




1917. Unknown

Battle of Broodseinde Ridge (near Ypres in Flanders). Men of a Yorkshire regiment on the march, 1917.


Lansdowne of Windsor

Circa 1905. Grand Trunk car ferry crossing the Detroit River in winter. Detroit Publishing Company




ca. 1850, daguerreotype

 Man holding a cat. Unknown.




Magic winters

Boston, 1920, Park street Side. Unknown.



An Indian Eagle Catcher


It was made in 1908 by Edward S. Curtis. The illustration documents a Hidatsa Indian

 

1944. Still war

An Allied artillery barrage at night on the Italian front, 1944.