Monthly Archives: May 2018

“Ah! what tales might those pictures tell if their mute lips had the power of speech!”

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Christopher George

G.F.E. Pearsall, [Walt Whitman], September 1872 (24.2004) Attributed to J. C. Tarisse, [Walt Whitman], ca. 1869 (2010.41.3) “W. always objected to sending out these pictures because the photographer has immodestly painted the cheeks. N.J. 1908” (Written on verso) Whitman disapproved … Continue reading →

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Looking at “Dr. Strangelove”

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Christopher George

Weegee, [Stanley Kubrick], 1963 (7482.1993) Weegee, [Peter Sellers and Stanley Kubrick on the set of “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”], 1963 (2151.1993) Weegee, [Stanley Kubrick on the set of “Dr. Strangelove or: … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Christopher George

Danny Lyon, Memorial day run, Milwaukee, 1966 (2009.93.52) Danny Lyon, Memorial Day run, Milwaukee, 1965-66 (2010.3.11) Toby Old, Memorial Day, Washington, D.C., 1989 (75.1995)

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“Correct Likenesses”

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Christopher George

Alonzo Nickerson, Daguerreotype Establishment!, ca. 1848 (809.2000) Daguerreotype Establishment! The subscriber would respectfully inform the inhabitants of… and vicinity, that he has arrived at the above place, and has taken rooms at… where he is prepared to execute Daguerrean Likenesses, … Continue reading →

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Dinosaurs

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Christopher George

Dennis Stock, [Car Park], 1971 (2015.35.3) Patrick Nagatani, Contamination Area, Building # 3, Sandia National Labortatories, Kirtland A.F.B. Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1989 (2010.116.42) Unidentified photographer, [Brenda below dinosaur], 1975 (DA.3A10.1186) Weegee, [Tyrannosaurus rex from the Sinclair Oil Corporation Dinoland pavilion … Continue reading →

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The Acropolis of Athens in the Evening (“The most beautiful thing in the world”)

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Christopher George

George Hoyningen-Huene, [North western corner with foundation of the Hekatompedon, Acropolis, Athens], 1938 (174.1980) (Film: Negative, Kodak Panatomic, 6×6) George Hoyningen-Huene, [North side of Parthenon seen from the Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens], 1938 (180.1980) (Film: Negative, Kodak Panatomic, 6×6) George Hoyningen-Huene, … Continue reading →

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KCOH

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Christopher George

Benny A. Joseph, Skipper Lee Frazier, KCOH disc jockey and go-go girls, Houston, 1965 (DA.1D1B.1) Skipper Lee Frazier A Mountain of Soul …When an opening became available at another radio station, KCOH, the time had come for the area to … Continue reading →

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Mamie Smith

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Christopher George

Apeda Studio, [Mamie Smith], 1920-24 (1500.1990) Apeda Studio, [Mamie Smith], 1920-24 (1500.1990) (verso) Chicago Defender, November 20, 1920, p.3 “Crazy Blues,” Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds, by Perry Bradford, Addington Major, trumpet; Ward “Dope” Andrews, trombone; Ernest “Sticky” Elliott, … Continue reading →

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Record Players

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Christopher George

Martin Munkacsi, [Portable record player], 1930s (2007.110.2650) USSR in Construction, July 1935 (2012.13.24) A portable gramophone manufactured by the Leningrad factory. The gramophone industry that came to us after the October revolution was a handicraft industry, in a semi-ruined condition. … Continue reading →

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“Orson Welles Citizen Kane”

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Christopher George

PM, August 2, 1940, p. 18 (2007.14.64) Orson Welles, whose man-from Mars broadcast scared radio listeners a while back, now is a movie director – at $150,00 for making, and acting in, Citizen Kane. He’s 25 and plays the role … Continue reading →

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