Interesting old photos resurrected. Resurrected once more.
Posted by: JamieWednesday on 15 October 2015
Henry McCarty, known in Wild West lore as Billy the Kid.
In a surprising historical twist, the second photo of McCarty ever to be authenticated shows him and his posse, the Regulators, playing the sport in New Mexico in 1878. The faded image was among a pile of photos inside a cardboard box at a junk shop in Fresno, California, unearthed by a collector in 2010. Randy Guijarro paid $2 (£1.30) for the image, which is now estimated to be worth millions of dollars. The only other confirmed photo of Billy the Kid, from 1880, sold for $2.3m (£1.5m) in 2011. The photo was authenticated by a San Francisco-based Americana company, Kagin’s, which identified Billy the Kid along with several members of the Regulators, as well as friends and family. It was taken after a wedding in the summer of 1878, just a month after the gang took part in the brutal Lincoln County war.
Thanks for resurrecting this Jamie.
I was watching a Simon Schama doc the other day and this portrait was featured at one point. It's by Yousef Karsh and despite it being reproduced thousands of times, for me it never loses its power. It's one of the most penetrating photographic portraits ever. Apparently Karsh snatched the cigar from Winnie's mouth, walked back to his camera and caught the grand old man's indignant response to the photographer's impertitence. Talking about capturing the moment...
Love this picture of Picasso taken on a Leica M3 by David Douglas Duncan. It captures a side of the artist not normally seen - his boyish, mischievous side.
Jose Meiffret - Managed to clock over 127 MPH with this oversized chainweel.
Amazing!
Amazing!
This 1908 photo of Tolstoy is probably Prokudin-Gorsky's most famous work:
Picasso and Bardot, 1956 (photo by Jerome Brierre):
CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. The liberator Fidel CASTRO and his revolutionary army arriving in the city of Santa Clara, during their spearhead crossing of the island in the direction of La Havana
CUBA. 1959. Fidel Castro and his rebel army stop along the roadside during their march to liberate Havana
Taking shelter at Aldwych Tube station during the Blitz 1940:
Sioux chiefs, North Dakota, 1905
Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine (what a pity it's no longer published) circa 1940.
Another strikingly modern Eisenstaedt. This time it's the brilliant comedienne Carole Lombard in 1938:
Two trains of the Ffestiniog Railway at Tan y Bwlch Station, Wales, 1900
Life was simpler then...
Happy Days
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