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Tag Archives: photography
Berliner No. 2
July 25 08
Construction of the Wall, 13 Aug, 1961. Courtesy Corey Hatch.
We often forget about the faces of the people in photographs such as these. Look at masons on the east, doing their work whilst surrounded by officers, while onlookers in the west, also surrounded by officers, watch.
Shock and Awe No. 4
July 23 08
Aerial Shot of Guernica, after the bombardment. Found on an Air Minded post about aerial bombardment.
(wiki Guernica) (wiki Spanish Civil War)
Ansel Adams at Manzanar
July 17 08
Japanese Internees at Manzanar War Relocation Center,
Owens Valley, California, 1943.
Photograph by Ansel Adams
(Source: Ansel Adams Manzanar Collection, Library of Congress)
[wiki Ansel Adams] [wiki Manzanar WRC]
City Hall, Parade Square, Halifax
July 9 08
The above image is scan of a photograph held by the Nova Scotia Museum; it is undated on their website.
Note the old Moir’s Chocolate plant on Argyle St to the left of City Hall, in the distance. I once read an endearing account of downtown Halifax back when the Plant was in operation. With only [...]
Between Wars: Lille
July 3 08
Yesterday morning I encountered a rather interesting postcard of showing rue Escuermoise in Lille, France. The scanned resolution is fairly high, so it was fairly easy to note many details in the picture, including many of the shops such as the Taverne du XXième Siècle, Olympia Antiquites, and le Librairie L. Quarre du something. [...]
Left Bank No. 3
June 26 08
Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, outside her bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.
(A much better scan of this photograph is available here (as “a photo of Beach with Joyce”), but I prefer this one, since it hasn’t yet been cropped. I wonder if that boy at the second-floor balcony knew the importance of the figures standing [...]
The City No. 1
June 24 08
Offices of The Evening Chronicle
Withy Grove, Manchester
(The Evening Chronicle is part of a tangled history of newspaper titles and owners that eventually (re-)coalesced as the Manchester Evening News and The Guardian in the middle of the 20th Century).
[mitchellirons.com/culture]
The World At Large No. 1
June 19 08
Audrey Hepburn, Paris Match Cover.
No. 639, 8 July 1961.
[mitchellirons.com]