Posts tagged: black and white
@dudek, cc: The Private Life of Pablo Picasso
Cup & Saucer
Apparently I went to 1967 yesterday and took this picture.
God damn, do I love black and white.
[Jack London] is best known as the author of The Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf, novels which made him rich. He’s somewhat less well known as a journalist and social activist—though in his time he worked as a war correspondent for newspapers and magazines, and was well-known as a powerful advocate for unions and a noted socialist lecturer. But he’s virtually unknown as a photographer, despite the fact that he shot remarkable photographs under very trying conditions. (Read More)
Neat! Ninalee Craig, the woman in Ruth Orkin’s iconic 1951 “American Girl in Italy,” talks about her time being photographed by Ruth Orkin.
She’s now 83 years old. The orange shawl is the same one she wore in the 1951 photo.
Ninalee Craig On Being Photographed by Iconic Photographer
via Reddit
July 31, 1958: Lomie Puckett stands guard to prevent bulldozers from leveling her Edendale house for the construction of the Golden State Freeway. Puckett wanted more money than offered for the house.
Read more about the incident on Framework.
Photo credit: John Malmin / Los Angeles Times
The Match by keith kendall on Flickr.
Bercy 1980, by Philippe Gautrand
Dolphins in action (di Paul Cowell)