Showing posts with label bicycles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycles. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Man with Dog, Man with Bicycle



Top: Sigmund Freud with his dog, Jofi
Bottom: Emperor Joshua Norton photographed by Eadweard Muybridge

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

London Youth - Part 2









more photos by Paul Trevor
in and around Spitalfields, East London
mid to late 1970s
from VADS

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Spring Comes To Brooklyn
















Spring Comes To Brooklyn - 1949
photos by Ralph Morse

source:life

Monday, December 14, 2009

Three Portraits






1. "American GI Al Robertson holding up pocket knife taken as a souvenir after the fighting near Buna Beach against Japanese forces controlling the area."
2. "American Capt. Byron Bradford sitting on a captured Japanese bicycle during the battle for control of the island."
3. "Sgt. Herman Bottcher pausing during the fight against Japanese forces holding the Buna area."


More about Herman Bottcher, veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

Photos by George Strock
Buna, Papua New Guinea
1943

source:life

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Berlin circa 1908





















"Among the larger collections at George Eastman House are nearly 11,000 glass negatives by Ch. Chusseau-Flaviens...He seems to have been an early free-lance photojournalist able to travel and gain access to various European royalty, armies, and political rallies"

GEH also has a flickr

Monday, June 29, 2009

Kay Tobin Lahusen


















Various events in various cities.
Kay Lahusen - 1971

"Kay Lahusen (b. January 5, 1930 also known as Kay Tobin) is considered the first openly gay photojournalist of the gay rights movement."

In 2007, Lahusen and her partner, Barbara Gittings, donated their papers to the NYPL.