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.
It's 1926, and a group of young unauthorised skinny-dippers is chased around Hyde Park by a cane-wielding policewoman. Fantastic!
It's 1926, and a group of young unauthorised skinny-dippers is chased around Hyde Park by a cane-wielding policewoman. Fantastic!
A set-up, for sure. But still funny.
This is a pcture by Lynn Johnson from National Geographic. They've run an article about how blast injuries to the brain affect so many soldiers. It covers the impact and severity of the wounds and how the injured try to overcome them. This may partly be through the therapy of creating masks, in effect to perhaps try and display and let their demons out. But they are not demons, they are representative of internal injuries, not often visible to the outside world. Fascinating article but sad and depressing, of course, revealing yet more of the terrors inflicted by war and combat, as if more were needed.
Taken in 1938/9, this photo by Gerti Deutsch shows some Kindertransport Jewish teenagers shortly after their arrival in the UK.
Another Gerti: village life in Alpbach in the Austrian Tyrol, 1951: baking bread in the snow:
You can't get much older than this - the oldest surviving photograph, View from the Window at Gras (1826), taken by Nicéphore Niépce. Exposure time was at least eight hours!
Very primitive indeed.
The first selfie of Bob Cornelius in 1839.
Didn't hold back on his gear then...
