Wonderful Life in the Late 1930s Through Rare Agfacolor Slides
This post was originally published on this siteAgfacolor was the name of a series of color film products made by Agfa of Germany. The first […]
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The Extraordinary of James Craig Annan Photography From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
This post was originally published on this siteJames Craig Annan (1864–1946) was a pioneering Scottish-born photographer and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. The […]
20 Rare and Amazing Photographs of Buenos Aires, Argentina From the 1870s
This post was originally published on this siteBuenos Aires was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century. From the start it was a trading […]
Portraits of a Beautiful Bangkok Girl, ca. 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteThese fascinating portraits of an unknown Bangkok girl were taken by photographer Dmitri Kessel for LIFE magazine in […]
At the Time of the Louisville Flood, 1937
This post was originally published on this siteA good photojournalist might count himself lucky if he gets only one of his images published in a […]
Clarence Hailey Long, the Original Marlboro Man
This post was originally published on this siteIf a picture is worth a thousand words, then Leonard McCombe’s image that inspired the Marlboro Man campaign […]
Fascinating Photographs of Old Shopfronts Taken in the East End of London in 1988
This post was originally published on this site“In 1988 these ex-shops didn’t have long left. Long after the interiors had turned to dust, what you […]
Images of the West: The Lantern Slides of Blackfeet Indians Taken by Walter McClintock
This post was originally published on this sitePittsburgh native Walter McClintock graduated from Yale in 1891. In 1896 he traveled west as a photographer for […]
The Ethereal and Dreamy Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn
This post was originally published on this siteHeinrich Kühn, originally Carl Christian Heinrich Kühn (25 February 1866 – 14 September 1944) was an Austrian–German photographer […]
The First Photograph Ever Taken in Barcelona, 1839
This post was originally published on this siteIt was not only the first photograph ever taken in Barcelona, but in the whole of the Iberian […]
30 Stunning Color Photographs Taken by Lionel de Rothschild From the Early 20th Century
This post was originally published on this siteLionel de Rothschild had a passion for photography and between 1908 and 1912 experimented with the autochrome, the […]
Stunning Autochromes of Belgium Taken by Georges Gilon in 1913
This post was originally published on this siteGeorges Gilon (1873–1928) was a wool-trader at Verviers in Belgium. He was married to Maria Nokin who bore […]
Men Standing With Pile of American Buffalo Skulls at Michigan Carbon Works in Rogueville, 1892
This post was originally published on this siteThe most famous photograph of bison extermination is a grisly image of a mountain of bison skulls. It […]
Studio Portraits of American Indians by Alexander Gardner From the 1860s
This post was originally published on this siteAlexander Gardner (1821-1882) was a photographer best known for his portraits of President Abraham Lincoln, his American Civil […]
The First Fake Photograph: Abraham Lincoln’s Head on John Calhoun’s Body, ca. 1860s
This post was originally published on this siteThis print is a composite; the head of Abraham Lincoln is superimposed on the figure and background of […]
Among Louis Lumière’s First Autochrome Photographs, Taken in 1907
This post was originally published on this siteMay 1907, and under a scarlet parasol, a woman pauses amidst clouds of apple blossom and cow parsley […]
Portraits of a Young Elizabeth Taylor Taken by Peter Basch on the set of ‘Giant’ in 1955
This post was originally published on this siteGiant is an epic Western drama film that follows the family of a Texas cattle rancher over the […]
The Only Known Color Photograph of Britain’s King Edward VII
This post was originally published on this siteHere is the only known color photograph of Britain’s King Edward VII. Found in April 2009 in a […]
Unused Polaroids of John Lennon Taken by Andy Warhol for the Album Cover of ‘Imagine’ (1971)
This post was originally published on this siteThese Polaroids were taken by Andy Warhol during a session at John Lennon’s Tittenhurst Park home in 1971, […]
Cher and Dolly Parton Photographed by Harry Langdon, 1978
This post was originally published on this siteOn April 3,1978, Dolly Parton appeared on a one-time television special titled, Cher… Special. The show was a […]
Roller-Skating Street Ambassador Advertising the Mythical Zohar Photography Studio in Manhattan
This post was originally published on this siteThis amazing daguerreotype photo may look as if it was taken in 19th century New York, but it […]
The First Image of Earth Taken From Outer Space
This post was originally published on this siteThis black-and-white image might not look like much, but it represent the first step towards the creation of […]
Robert Madden’s Guatemalan Plane Crash, the Most Intense Photo Ever Taken
This post was originally published on this siteIt turns out it’s absolutely a case of impeccable photography by Robert W. Madden, who was at the […]
“Blown Away Guy”: The Most Iconic Music Image of All Time
This post was originally published on this siteMaxell cassette tape in 1980 created the all-time iconic music image that will last far into the future, […]
DOCUMERICA: Snapshots of America in Crisis in the 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteBy the late 1960s, the American landscape was ravaged by decades of unchecked land development, blighted by urban […]