Monthly Archives: May 2012

Piramal and Sami and Adolph and Rudolph and Millie and Chistine and Daisy and Violet and Daisy and Violet…

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Frank Wendt, Piramal & Sami, Brother & Sister Double Bodied Hindoo Enigma, ca. 1915 Frank Wendt, Adolph-Rudolph, 27 Years Old, Born, Vienna, Austria, ca. 1898 Ollivier Photo, Millie Christine: The Carolina Twin, surnamed the 2-headed Nightingale, ca. 1880 A book: … Continue reading →

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Happy Memorial Day!

Posted on May 28, 2012 by

Larry Silver, Memorial Day flag, Westport, Connecticut, 1979 Larry Silver, Memorial Day Minutemen, Westport, Connecticut, 1979

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Celebrating 75 Years of the Golden Gate Bridge

Posted on May 27, 2012 by

International News Photos, [Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra above the Golden Gate Bridge], March 17, 1937 William E. Dassonville, Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito, ca. 1925 Read more about the 75th anniversary festivities here.

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Space and Mirrored Self

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Currently, Francesca Woodman has two shows in New York: at the Guggenheim and a separate selection of blue prints at Marion Goodman. To look at Woodman’s photographs is to constantly read the environment through the psychological and vice versa. At … Continue reading →

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[Groups of men dressed in women's clothing, 1940s and 50s]

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Lisette Model, Albert-Alberta, New York, 1940 Mickey Pallas, Female Impersonator Applying Make-Up, 1955 Mickey Pallas, Female Impersonator’s Grand Entrance, Chicago, 1955 Weegee, “Johnnie” Carbonele 2nd Prize Winner, ca. 1948 Bill Wood, [Group of men, dressed in women's clothing], 1950s

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The Capture of Jefferson Davis by the Fourth Michigan Cavalry

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

George W. Lonsbury, [Benjamin D. Pritchard], ca. 1867 Stansbury & Co., [Benton D. Thurston], ca. 1865 Stansbury & Co., [Johnson Saur], ca. 1865 Stansbury & Co., [Horace Bascome Warner], ca. 1865 Stansbury & Co., [John Sullivan], ca. 1865 The exhibition … Continue reading →

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73 Years Ago Today… The City of the Future!

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Vu, May 17, 1939

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Happy Birthday Richard, Abraham, and Jasper!

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

Richard Avedon, [Marilyn Monroe impersonating Theda Bara], 1958 Theda Bara. The movies’ first heavy-breathing temptress and the original vampire was Theda Bara–and this is Marilyn Monroe as this most famous of all vamps. In A Fool There Was and 40 … Continue reading →

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Man’s Best Friend

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Robert Capa, [Sitting volunteer and dog, farewell ceremony for the International Brigades, Les Masies, Spain], October 25, 1938 One day, while sorting through some boxes of Robert Capa’s photographs of the Spanish Civil WarI came across an image of a … Continue reading →

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

Roman Vishniac, Children making Mother’s Day cards, Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, New York, 1949 ©Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography Roman Vishniac’s recently discovered negatives documenting American Jewish social services organizations and community life in the 1940s, including … Continue reading →

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