Monday, June 17, 2013

National Photo

 Apple Blossoms at Winchester, Virginia, 1926

 Auto school, 1921-22

 Babe Ruth knocked out, July 1924
 
 Canoe Regatta and Water Carnival, Tidal Basin, August 1924
 
 Chinese legation, 1926
 
 Classy Camp group, 1915
 
 Couples dancing, 1910-20
 
 Dancing at a Service Club, World War I
 
 Debutantes to serve as waitress at horse show, 1925
 
 DeGrout family group
 
Detroit Tigers' Harry Heilmann, in a poorly executed slide, is tagged out by Washington Senators' third baseman Howard Shanks. Senators beat the Tigers 6-2. June 8, 1921

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Ben Shahn

Photos taken in Arkansas.

 Picking cotton on Alexander plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecropper's child, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecroppers in Marked Tree, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecroppers' children on Sunday, near Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935
["no more write on this house" - I love it!]
 
 Washing facilities in the Ozarks, Arkansas, 1935

 Wife and child of sharecropper, Arkansas, 1935

Wife of sharecropper, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Gustave Le Gray

Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) was an important early French photographer. Trained as a painter by some prominent artists, he switched to the medium of photography in the 1840s (today we'd call him an "early adopter"). He became in time the official photographer to Emperor Napoleon III. 

Much of his work consisted of landscapes and seascapes; he also did portraits. 

 Alpine village

 Boats leaving the port of Le Havre, 1856

 Brig on the Water

 Céline Cerf, muse of fifteen and a half years, 1848

 
 Chateau de Fontainebleau reflecting in the water

 Entrance to the port of Brest, 1858

 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Palermo, 1860
[he is considered the father of united Italy 
(this is not the Garibaldi who was the security chief on Babylon 5!)]
 
 Group by the Millpond at Petit-Mourmelon, 1857

 Jacques Cœur’s palace, Dauphiné

 La Reine Hortense - Yacht of Emperor Napoléon III, Le Havre, 1856

 Large Wave, Mediterranean Sea

 Margaret Palace, fiancée mourning, 1848

Monday, June 10, 2013

Bruno Braquehais

Bruno Braquehais (1823-1875) was an early French photographer who pioneered the art of photojournalism during the Paris Commune of 1871. The Musée d'Orsay has a page about Braquehais.  He also photographed nudes, but I'm sure enterprising readers can seek them out if interested...

 Barricade in the Rue de la Paix (Place Vendôme)

 Barricades on the Quai Pelletier and on the Pont d'Arcole, 1870-71

 Batterie d'artillerie installée à la Porte Maillot, sous le feu des batteries versaillaises, 1871

 Battery of the Montmartre Hills, 1870-71

 Commander of the Place Vendôme under the Commune, 1870-71

 Commune de Paris barricade de la rue de Castiglione, 1871

 Corner of Boulevard Saint Martin and Rue de Bondy, 1870-71

 General Staff of the Place Vendôme, under the Commune, 1870-71

 Hôtel de Ville before the Fire, 1870-71

 National Guards and curious citizens at the foot of the Vendôme Column

 Partial View of the Destroyed Balcony of the Ministry of Finance, 1870-71

 Place Vendôme (Group of Federated Soldiers near the Barricade in the Rue Castiglione), 1870-71

 Place Vendôme; the Right Side of the Barricade in the Rue de la Paix, 1870-71

 Ruins near the Pont d'Auteuil and the Gare d'Auteuil, 1870-71

 Statue of Napoleon I after the Fall of the Vendôme Column, 1870-71

 Tuileries Palace, View of the Destroyed Interior, 1870-71

 Last House on the Avenue de Neuilly, 1870-71

Parc de Saint-Cloud, Bathing Pavilion and Armored Crossing of the Prussians, 1870-71

Friday, June 7, 2013

André Kertész

 Ballet, New York City, 1938

 Child Reading Comics

 Detail of women’s legs and shoes on rocks and river, 1940s

 Girls in Fairy Costumes, New York

 MacDougal Alley, New York City, 1977

New York City, November 10, 1962
 
 Nude Study, 1939

 Untitled, 1941

 Washington Square, Winter, 1954

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