Monday, August 5, 2013

Ansel Adams

We've already featured some of Adams's photos of the Manzanar Internment Center. But he is, of course, best known for his transcendent nature photos. Here are some of those famous images.

 An unnamed peak, Kings River Canyon California, 1936
  
 Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958
  
 Boulder Dam Power Units Colorado River, Nevada-Arizona Border, 1941
  
 Dead Oak Tree, Sierra Foothills, 1938
  
In Saguaro National Monument Arizona, 1941
  
 Maroon Bells, near Aspen, Colorado, 1951
 
 Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite, 1963
  
 Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
 
 Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
  
Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Sunday, August 4, 2013

National Photo - Kids

 Fete Champtre, May 1923
  
 Food Administration, Girl Scout garden, 1 & T St. N.E., Washington, D.C
  
 Gypsies, 1923
  
 Mrs. John J. Nolan children's party, 1919-20
[the fun never ends :)]
  
 Plaza baby show, 1922
  
 Star orphans excursion, August 1923
  
 Sumi and Sada Tamura, 1925
  
 Susan and Lucile Sheppard, June 1922
  
Young boys and girls on the baseball field at a major league stadium

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Arthur Leipzig

Mr. Leipzig had quite an interesting career. He took some great photos of street life in New York.

 Chalk Games, Prospect Place, Brooklyn, 1950
  
 Children looking at Christmas toys, 1944
  
 Divers, 1948
  
 Hide and Seek, 1943
  
 Red Rover, 1943
  
Stickball, 1950

Friday, August 2, 2013

Roman Vishniac

 A Town Square, Kazimierz, Cracow, Poland, 1936
  
 Basement home of a porter and his family, Warsaw, 1935-38
  
 Boy with kindling in basement dwelling, Krochmalna Street, Warsaw
  
 Children bathing, 1938
  
 Father earned today some money and daughter is sent for milk, 1937
  
 Father taking his son to the first day of cheder (Jewish elementary school), Mukacevo, 1937-38
  
 Girl in plaid dress, Mukacevo, ca. 1935-38
  
 Grandfather and granddaughter, Warsaw, 1930s
  
 Inside the Jewish Quarter, Bratislava, 1935-38
  
 Jewish refugees in horse stables that have been converted to living quarters, 
Polish detention camp in Zbaszyn, Poland, 1938
  
 Student of the Talmud, Trnava, Czechoslovakia, 1937
  
 The market in the main square in Lask, 1937
  
Jewish youth, Mukacevo, 1935-38

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Wiener Photographische Blätter 1895

Pictures from an Austrian photography journal. The image quality is not great but these are really interesting.

 Alfred Buschbeck: Country Girl
  
 Alfred Buschbeck: Portrait
  
 Baron Nathaniel De Rothschild: Domplatz in Trient
  
 Baron Nathaniel De Rothschild: In the Gulf of Smyrna
  
 Baron Nathaniel De Rothschild: Palm Grove in Biskra
  
 Carl Graf Chotek: On the Riviera
  
 Com. Adj. Alexander Hauger: Torpedo Boats Attacking at Night
  
 Dr. F. von Mixich: Entrance to the Ampezzothal
  
 Dr. Hugo Henneberg: Still Life
  
 Dr. Julius Hofmann: Portrait
  
 F. Vellusig: Marshy Landscape
  
 Hans Watzek: Michel
  
 Heinrich Kühn: Evening in the Lagoon
  
 John Bergheim: Bajadere
  
 John Bergheim: Music
  
 Julius Strakosch: Winter Evening
  
 Oberst K. Sužnević: In the Mountains
  
 Otto Scharf: Flock of Sheep
  
Robert Ritter Von Stockert: At the Baltic Sea