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.

Posted on: 14 December 2015 by JamieWednesday

Yep, from Richmond Hill

Posted on: 14 December 2015 by TOBYJUG

Posted on: 11 January 2016 by Kevin-W

Photo by John Robert Rowlands, taken on the 1976 "Isolar" tour. Was there ever a cooler man than Bowie?

Posted on: 11 January 2016 by Kevin-W

Taken by a police photographer in 1976 when The Dame was arrested on drugs-related charges. Was there ever a more stylish mugshot?

Posted on: 12 January 2016 by kuma

A great tribute for Bowie on Retronaut today.

Introducing David Bowie 1966

Posted on: 16 January 2016 by MDS

Kevin-W posted:
Photo by John Robert Rowlands, taken on the 1976 "Isolar" tour. Was there ever a cooler man than Bowie?

Wouldn't that be Fonzie shown earlier?

BTW, only just discovered this thread. Glad I did.

Posted on: 01 February 2016 by Kevin-W

The Graun's "Eyewitness" section put out a call a few weeks ago for readers' memorable gig photos.

Some very good shots - the one of John Lydon is amazing. Check them out here:

http://www.theguardian.com/mus...who#comment-67848630

Posted on: 06 February 2016 by Kevin-W

This photo of a family in a slum was - shockingly - taken in Newcastle in 1972.

Given the state of the housing market and the greed of many landlords, it wouldn't be a surprise if we saw a return of these kind of conditions.

There are other photos from this set (1969-72) in this Graun article:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-...-72#comment-68160735

Posted on: 06 February 2016 by kuma

Photo journalism has always been a champion for poor and under-privileged.

This is my friend Patsy Evan's photo chronicle of the last of Chicago Public Housing project ( infamous Cabrini-O-Green, Robert Taylor homes et all ) which failed miserably and ultimately demolished by the city.