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LIFE magazine is scanning its image resources to google. already they have things from the 1840s/50s/60s /70s ...
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=1960s+source:life&btnG=Search+Images
just change the decade tag above. Enjoy!

Margaret Bourke White

"Lattice like support struts inside section of a giant pipe which is to be used to divert the flow of the Missouri River during construction of the Fort Peck dam. (note person working)"


1941, Russia

Note: Click images for MUCH better view.

Photos by Margaret Bourke-White in the LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. (via Conscientious)

E. O. Hoppé

Fritz Lang, 1928 (Found in the gallery for Visual & Performing Artists) & Adrah Fair (Found in the E. O. Hoppé section of Vernacular Photography)
[Click images for enlargement at source]


'Open air cafe, Bombay, 1929' (Found in the gallery for "The Face of Mother India", 1935)
[Click image for enlargement at source]

E. O. Hoppé - photographer: galleries. (sort of via Vintage Photographs)

1930s-40s in Color

"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland. 1941 Sept.


Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. 1941 June.

"These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944. ..."
1930s-40s in Color, a spectacular documentation uploaded to Flickr by Library of Congress. (via Coudal Partners)

Life in Soviet Russia

Life in Soviet Russia: Private Moments, a mixed series of great photographs of "ordinary" life in yesterdays Russia/Soviet collected and uploaded by English Russia. (via Coudal Partners)

When legends gather

Jayne Mansfiel + Roberto Rosselini / Mick Jagger + Divine / Carole Lombard + Sabu
All images found on this excellent blog:
if charlie parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats.
An ongoing series of cultural and personal observations by Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson and Kimberly Lindbergs.

via label: when legends gather

other labels:
They were collaborators
Musical Indulgences
Sex education
... there's too many!

Vest Tester

" ... When the bullet hit, Murphy never batted an eye. Inventors ot the bulletproof vest, which weighs about 11 pounds, have put iten the market for the protection of police and other officers in emergency cases. The bullet which Deputy Smith fired into the vest Wednesday was presented to him for a souvenir"
I'd say he was worth it.

Vest Test: 1923, at Shorpy.

Street musicians in 1935

October 1935. "Street musicians. Blind fiddler. West Memphis, Arkansas."
Click image for far better view over at Shorpy.

John Rosenthal

Last Beach Trip, Okracoke, North Carolina, 1986 (Found in American Spaces> Gallery 1)


Rocky III, 1982 (Found in The City Portfolio> Subway)

John Rosenthal, photographer. (Travelling with the ghost)

Soda jerker

"February 1939. Corpus Christi, Texas. "Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes." Photo by Russell Lee."
Click image for much, much better view at Shorpy.

Works by Roswell Angier

Roswell Angier... Lukachukai, Arizona (1980, Vintage gelatin silver print 8 1/2 x 13 inches). From Works by Roswell Angier at Gitterman Gallery. "...Well known for his work in Boston’s strip clubs and burlesque houses in the early 1970s, this exhibition focuses on Roswell Angier’s work in the border towns surrounding the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona. Having driven through the area numerous times, remembering Robert Frank’s image of an Indian bar on Highway 66 in Gallup, N.M., Angier began photographing the towns surrounding the Navajo reservation. Angier’s images depict a people trying to persevere in the midst of a community gripped by increasing marginalization and debilitating alcoholism."

Charles Peterson: Come As You Are - Seattle's Rock Legacy

Charles Peterson... Nirvana Stage Diver (UW Hub Ballroom, Seattle, 1990, Gelatin Silver Print Photograph). From Charles Peterson: Come As You Are - Seattle's Rock Legacy at Soulcatcher Studio in Santa Fe, NM. "...Soulcatcher Studio is very pleased to welcome guest artist Charles Peterson (born 1964) to our gallery for this exclusive exhibition, featuring a selection of previously unpublished images from his vast archive. Below you will find a retrospective exhibition of his documentation of the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and 1990s, along with current pricing and print information. Peterson's photographs have appeared in publications and galleries throughout the world, most notably a one-man exhibition at The Chrysler Museum (curated by Brooks Johnson) February~May 2005."

Russia in the early 80s

"These are some illustrations from the book “The Russians” by Alexandr Kalion ...
These are Russian people of early 80s, right before the collapse of USSR."
Some great photos from Russia Early 80s at English Russia. (via LinkFilter)

Note Brasklapp: I know these photos are probably not representative for Russian life in the early 80s. These are great photos nevertheless!

Nat Finkelstein

'Self-portrait' and 'Amber laughing' (both from 'Portraits')


'Dylan screen test' found in THE FACTORY YEARS: 1964 - 1967 / Duchamp to Dylan

Nat Finkelstein, photographer: Photojournalism - Andy Warhol - Factory - Velvet Underground - A Tale of One City (A photographic Trip throughthe Rock & Roll Underground) - Erotica [NSFW] - Americana - Girlfriends 1980s-90s [NSFW] - Portraits (via The Cartoonist)

Photo Central: Photo Exhibits

'Woman in Striped Dress'
Found in Joel D. Levinson: An Independent Vision of the Human Condition.

Photo Central: Photo Exhibits - Selection of photo exhibits on a selected topic or photographer.
Also of interest: Surrealism and Experimental Photography, Fritz Henle: Observer and Photographer of People and Places and Paris at Night in Photographs. I advice you to have a tour. lot's of great photography. (via Peanut Butter Sandwich)

Erik Refner

Found in folder for Rockabillies - 1

Erik Refner, excellent Danish photographer. (via wandering with the ghost)
Note: Flash site