Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Pictures of 1970s and 1980s New York
This post was originally published on this siteBruce Gilden is an American street photographer. Known for his graphic and often confrontational close-ups made using flash, […]
Women Workers at H. M. Government Printing and Stationery Office in Harrow, England, 1932
This post was originally published on this siteThat’s a lot of paperwork! These women in one of the counting and packing rooms in the Government […]
The German occupation of Czechoslovakia in rare photographs, 1938-1939
This post was originally published on this siteAfter Germany’s annexation of Austria in March 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled twice to the continent hoping […]
30 Found Photos Capture People At Home in the Late 19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteVictorian decorating was the polar opposite of today’s modern styles. It was a time of heavy, ornate furnishings, […]
Pictures of North Korea Industries in 1972
This post was originally published on this siteIn June 1972, The Toronto Star’s veteran Asia correspondent Mark Gayn was one of four reporters allowed into […]
Portrait Photos of Ray Milland in the 1930s and ’40s
This post was originally published on this siteBorn 1907 as Alfred Reginald Jones in Neath, Glamorgan, Welsh-American actor and film director Ray Milland served in […]
Fascinating Black and White Photos of Life in an English Coal Town From the 1970s to 1990s
This post was originally published on this siteMik Critchlow is a social documentary photographer based in the North East of England. On seeing an exhibition […]
Car Exercises Dogs, 1955
This post was originally published on this siteThis seems like a really good way to kill your dogs, not to mention just cruel. With six […]
Photos of Marlon Brando During the Filming of ‘On the Waterfront’ (1954)
This post was originally published on this siteOn the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd […]
Goofy vintage photos of World War One soldiers posing with fake military props, 1914-1930
This post was originally published on this siteThese military portraits collected by Christopher B. Steiner, a professor of art history and anthropology at Connecticut College, […]
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 […]
Life Before World War II: Fascinating Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Budapest, Hungary in 1939
This post was originally published on this siteThough the history of color photography dates back more than a hundred years, the production and publication of […]
Black and White Photos of Tokyo’s Street Portraits in the Early 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteIn Japan during the 1980s, the economy was in a boom where buyers found themselves paying the highest […]
Glass Case Protects Baby From Poison Gas, 1938
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1938, masked nurses clad in gasproof rubber garments are testing out the latest invention of war-fearing Europe. […]
The brutal art of early Soviet antireligious propaganda posters, 1920-1940
This post was originally published on this siteThese posters were published in the Soviet anti-religious magazine, Bezbozhnik (“The Godless”) from 1922 to 1941. The main […]
40 Amazing Photos of the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893
This post was originally published on this siteThe World’s Columbian Exposition was a world’s fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary […]
Photographs of the Execution of Conspirators in the Assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, 1895
This post was originally published on this siteOn April 14, 1865, Lewis Thornton Powell, alias Payne, was the (Live Oak?) Florida native who was part […]
Melons (1998) by Patty Chang
This post was originally published on this siteIn Melons (At a Loss) (1998), a single-take video, Patty Chang narrates a monologue about an imagined cultural […]
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 […]
35 Gorgeous Photos of Valentina Cortese in the 1940s and ’50s
This post was originally published on this siteBorn 1923 in Milan, Italian actress Valentina Cortese made her screen debut in Italian films in 1940, leading […]
Beautiful Photos of the BMW 327
This post was originally published on this siteThe BMW 327 is a medium-sized touring coupé produced by the Bavarian firm between 1937 and 1941, and […]
Miss-Cue Wearing an A-Bomb Crown to Illustrate Another Misfiring of the Operation Cue Bomb, 1955
This post was originally published on this siteOne test in the Operation Teapot series, in early 1955, was used to evaluate the potential impact of […]
Portraits of Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey
This post was originally published on this siteHenry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey (1875–1905), styled Lord Paget until 1880 and Earl of Uxbridge between […]
Vintage Found Photos of People Reading in the Past
This post was originally published on this siteWhen thinking about reading, most of us take it for granted. It’s just there, it’s a thing we […]
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 […]