Monthly Archives: December 2017

New Year’s Eve, Times Square, New York: The New Year Brings Hope

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Christopher George

Dan Weiner, New Years Eve, Times Square, New York, 1951 (143.1992) Dan Weiner, New Years Eve, Times Square, New York, 1951 (969.1974) Weegee, New Year’s Eve, Times Square, New York, ca. 1945 (15654.1993) Weegee, For a Happier 1945… To Her … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas from the ICP Archives

Posted on December 25, 2017 by claartjevandijk

Charles Pratt, N.Y.C., 1962 (79.1996) Lisette Model, Window Shopping, New York City, 1962 (269.1983) Harold Feinstein, Fourteenth Street Shoe Store Window, 1969 (607.1982) Charles Pratt, N.Y.C., 1962 (72.1996)

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Vera Talbot: Xmas, 1924, Nara, Japan

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Christopher George

Vera Talbot, [Travel Album through Asia, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and Europe by Vera Talbot], 1924-26 (2009.32.68) At the end of December, 1924, Vera Talbot and her party were tirelessly visiting the temples and shrines in Kyoto, Nikko, and Nara, happily … Continue reading →

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God Inc.

Posted on December 23, 2017 by claartjevandijk

In 1990 photographer Carl de Keyzer rented a van and drove all across the United States. Several years earlier he had created projects in India and produced Homo Sovieticus in the former Soviet Union. This time de Keyzer became fascinated by … Continue reading →

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“Water is Life”

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Christopher George

Leonard Freed (1929-2006), The fire hydrants are opended during the summer heat, Harlem, NY, 1967 (404.1981) Charles Pratt (1929-1976), Hoboken, 1963 (87.1996) Charles Pratt (1929-1976), Hoboken, 1963 (86.1996) Lou Bernstein (1911-2005), N.Y. City, 1977 (27.1992) Lou Bernstein (1911-2005), South 3rd … Continue reading →

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“Surf Rocker” and “A Serious Case of Gold Fever” in Nome, Alaska: Photographs by E.A. Hegg

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Christopher George

Eric A. Hegg (1867–1947), “A Serious Case of Gold Fever, Nome Beach, Alaska,” ca. 1900 Eric A. Hegg (1867–1947), “Rocking on Nome Beach, Alaska,” ca. 1900 Eric A. Hegg (1867–1947), “Surf Rocker, Nome Beach, Alaska,” ca. 1900 Eric A. Hegg … Continue reading →

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Vera Talbot: Yokohama after the earthquake

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Christopher George

Vera Talbot, [Travel Album through Asia, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and Europe by Vera Talbot], 1924-26 (2009.32.68) Around noon on September 1, 1923 a massive earthquake, the Great Kanto Earthquake, perhaps the worst natural disaster in Japan, killed over 145,000 … Continue reading →

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Hedy Lamarr by Martin Munkacsi

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Christopher George

Martin Munkacsi (1898-1963), [Hedy Lamarr], 1938 (2007.110.2179) Inspired, in part, by player piano rolls and an early remote controlled radio (Philco’s “Mystery Control”) Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil invented and patented in the early 1940s a “Secret Communication System” … Continue reading →

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Water is Life: Life is Water

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Christopher George

Hidekazu Iwase, Last Light, 1989 (42.1994) Soichi Kiyooka, Nikko,Tochigi, August 1979 (12.1994) Aleksandras Macijauskas, Beginning, 1984 (1144.1986) Brett Weston (1911-1993), Trees, Water, Reflection, ca. 1965 (2012.119.51) Brett Weston (1911-1993), Rock and Water Reflection, High Sierra, ca. 1960 (2012.119.66) Wu Yinxian … Continue reading →

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Complicit

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Christopher George

“My Sister and I,” by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra; Helen Forrest; Hy Zaret, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer, 1941, from archive.org. Weegee (1899-1968), “Arrest didn’t dampen the spirits of Lillian and Pauline, 16 and 18, when they posed for this … Continue reading →

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