Tag Archives: Aleksandras Macijauskas

Happy Year of the Rat

Aleksandras Macijauskas, Veterinary surgeon Juozas Pranaitis, “In the Veterinary Clinic – 21”, 1977 (1140.1986.i) Bernard Aumuller, [Homemade poster against hoarding], ca. 1944 (2013.115.333) This home-made, and efective, cartoon against hoarding is posted in a New York grocery. (Caption adhered to … Continue reading

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“A Mirror of Reality”

Unidentified Photographer, [Backs of Eight Unidentified Women with Long Hair], Image (Sheeting): 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (8.9 x 6.4 cm), Tintype, ca. 1880 (2413.2005) Unidentified photographer, Ida Cushman as “The Giggler”, Alice Cushman as Queen Elizabeth, Julie Hood … Continue reading

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Happy Year Lunar New Year!

Margaret Bourke-White, [Pigs at Swift Meat Packing Packington Plant, Chicago], 1930 (1735.2005) Jacob Riis, Pig, Rutgers Street dump, New York, March 18, 1892 (261.1982) Weegee, [After the opera, Sammy’s on the Bowery, New York], ca. 1944 (wn.662) Inge Morath, Puck … Continue reading

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Water is Life: Life is Water

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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Bread – Preparing

USSR in Construction, “The Soviet Food Industry,” August 1938, (2012.13.55) Regards, April 13, 1934 (2011.7.251) This is the third and penultimate post about BREAD. The first and perhaps best bread post is here, the second, and second best, is here. (Yes, … Continue reading

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Thank You

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Looking at the mouth of a big fish that daddy had just caught, Florida, 1956 (294.1989) Thank you for viewing Fansinaflashbulb. Fansinaflashbulb was viewed more than 180,000 times in 2014. The visitors were from 180 countries (out of … Continue reading

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I love animals!

Frank Wendt, Mascot, the Talking Horse, Trained by Prof. H.S. Maguire, ca. 1900 (2011.47.93) Lisette Model, Promenade des Anglais, 1937 (79.1993) Weegee, [L. McAfee holding Cheetah during the filming of Tarzan’s Peril, Hollywood], ca. 1951 (18710.1993) Weegee, Village Type, ca. … Continue reading

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Norishment or Poison?

Milk has been part of our diet since the Neolithic Revolution (10,000 BCE), when humans domesticated animals. The discussion about organic, raw, and genetically treated food is at its peak. There are arguments on each side of the coin, both … Continue reading

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Happy Easter: “Our Chicks”!

The Scholl Studio, Our Chicks, ca. 1879 (68.1999) Aleksandras Macijauskas, In the market – 269, 1972 (1138.1986.jjj) Richard Tepe, Nest en Eireu Nau de Welde Eend I., ca. 1910-40 (320.2001)

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“Ice is water frozen into the solid state”

Soichi Kiyooka, Nikko, Tochigi, March 1974 (14.1994) Charles Pratt, Roxbury, 1965 (16.1996) Paul Caponigro, Ice No. One, Newton Mass., 1960 (66.2001.6)  Aleksandras Macijauskas, Beginning, 1984 (1144.1986)

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