Interesting Old Photos, Resurrected
Posted by: Kevin-W on 23 January 2015
I think the original thread - one of my favourites on the forum, and clearly enjoyed by others - got locked because of Hopeless' sheer brilliance.
So I thought it would be worth resurrecting it. To get things going, how about this wonderful 1946 pic by Horst P Horst of the American socialite Babe Paley. I love the colour palette, the light, the bokeh, the composition and the vulnerability the photographer draws out of his subject. At the V&A's recent, superb Horst exhibition, this was one of he standout pictures - it was a very large photo.
No patience, me! 
Another Horst beauty - a bold and simple composition featuring Jessica Tandy, from 1938:
I love this old photo taken in 1910 in St Louis, Missouri. How attitudes to smoking have changed!
Here's a Jockey ad from the early 1970s. we can only assume that the gentlemen on the right are squares, with their whites and their sock garters, while the hip and happening, colourfully-attired dudes on the left are the height of fashion, men who know how to enjoy themselves...
Here's a Jockey ad from the early 1970s. we can only assume that the gentlemen on the right are squares, with their whites and their sock garters, while the hip and happening, colourfully-attired dudes on the left are the height of fashion, men who know how to enjoy themselves...
The two from the left are wearing some ikea shower curtain.....
I think the original thread - one of my favourites on the forum, and clearly enjoyed by others - got locked because of Hopeless' sheer brilliance.
So I thought it would be worth resurrecting it. To get things going, how about this wonderful 1946 pic by Horst P Horst of the American socialite Babe Paley. I love the colour palette, the light, the bokeh, the composition and the vulnerability the photographer draws out of his subject. At the V&A's recent, superb Horst exhibition, this was one of he standout pictures - it was a very large photo.
That is simple but stunning Kevin.
I
That is simple but stunning Kevin.
It is indeed Steve.
Here's another 1940s Horst, an extremely bold experiment with stripes. Brilliant:
Babe Paley photo triggered young Truman Capote.
The two from the left are wearing some ikea shower curtain.....
LOL!
They were way ahead of their time. 
Babe Paley photo triggered young Truman Capote.
Looks like the young Capote may have been a pioneer in the trend of manscaping.
The two from the left are wearing some ikea shower curtain.....
LOL!
They were way ahead of their time.
Babe Paley photo triggered young Truman Capote.
Nice one!
Babe Paley photo triggered young Truman Capote.
These two are shot in Portofino. We went there last year and ate at one of the restaurants in the bcakground of the second shot. Our hotel room is directly above them, the balcony that is level with his head.
Originally Posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Nice one!
That's Jeniffer Jones of 1948 film Portrait of Jennie. I am not sure what year above photo was taken but she was married to David O. Selznick after dumping Robert Walker.
I've reliably informed this is photo taken during or after the battle of Port Arthur during the Russian Japanese war in late 1904 or early 1905. What intrigues me, is how was the photo taken.
These are of interest to me, becuase the photographer is my great uncle, Henry Winkelmann. That's him with the bike in the first photo with the bike.