Showing posts with label Black and White photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black and White photos. Show all posts
Vintage Photos: "don't give me the high-hat"
Do you know anything about this photo? Is it even vintage?all things amazing: random
Thanks to everyone who has answered my question. In the photo is the recently deceased Sebastian Horsley. We can conclude that it is a non-vintage photo. If someone knows of the photographer I'd like to add that information...
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Photos: Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work
"This was created in dedication to the photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s - 1970s. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she lived for 50 years but was originally a native to France. Her discovered work includes between 30-40,000 mostly medium format negatives. Born February 1, 1926 and deceased on Tuesday, April 21, 2009."
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Vintage Photo: Waiting For That Call
All Things Amazing: 3for3
OK, so the cars in the background indicates it's not vintage, they tell me. But who cares about the cars?
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Vintage Photo: Two Guys and a Tree
Today I found this old photo portraying a couple of guys in the Old Town of Stockholm. It was being displayed at the Nordiska muséet in a small exhibition about photography of everyday life and people. I'm sorry didn't note when or by whom it was taken but let's say (please do correct me) it's from about 1920-30. UPDATE: Josephzohn says "The old photo was taken by Gösta Spång in February 1924, 20 minutes past 3 in the afternoon!" which is confirmed here. Anyway, I immediately liked it, the composition, the tree and the guys. I also felt that the place was familiar, not that I knew exactly where but I knew I'd find it. With some luck I found it straight away (very close to where Josephzohn works, by the way).
The tiny tree was much larger but the houses in the background looked exactly the same (as they should in this part of Stockholm). I wanted to take a photo from more or less the same position but, damn it, they had put up a statue between the photographers position and the tree! Bastards. So I had to move in front of the statue to shoot it. As you can see in the larger compiled image of then and now the now-tree ended up a bit to the right of the then-tree. Either they moved it, perhaps it's even another tree planted later, or I simply should have moved a bit to the right. I had to manipulate today's photo to make everything but the tree fit, so the angle was somewhat off.
Tyska Stallplan (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia have this great (1,977 × 767 pixels) panoramic photo by Mats Halldin. Thanks. Click it!
More:
- Prästgatan No. 80 (Flickr)
- Mårten Trotzigs Gränd (Wikipedia)
- The relief plaque seen on the wall behind the guys says painter Carl Larsson was born at Prästgatan No. 78.
- "The most beautiful corner in/of Stockholm."
If you want to see the place on a 3D map click here and turn the view completely around or for the street view.
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Related post:
Photo: Now and Then
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Vintage Photos: Gas & Bear
Two very interesting photos
posted by tpoe4nuk to LiveJournal - Vintage Photographs
The uploader about the first one: "Gas Attack Rehearsal in USSR, near Leningrad 1937, photographer - Victor Bulla".
About the second: "Don't know if this photo is original or fake... just came across it..."
My own reflection: The bear = Russia?
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Photo: Portfolio in Black & White
Take a look at some pretty cool photos of icons, celbrities and famous moments from mostly the 60s and 70s.
Portfolio in Black & White
Marianne Faithfull
Photo/History: Fotografier från Sovjetunionen
Klicka här för att komma till galleriet.
Via Smidigt.se
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Winkler Collection of Boxing Photographs
"The Harry E. Winkler Photographic Collection includes more than 7,500 different boxing related images in various formats. Winkler was a longtime Los Angeles area fight figure and California correspondent for The Ring magazine from 1939 to 1953."
"What follows is an index to digital images of a representative selection of Winkler Collection portrait negatives."
Winkler Collection of Boxing Photographs
Via Cynical-C blog
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"Changing New York"
Columbus Circle (bilden är beskuren)
Changing New York: en serie fotografier av Berenice Abbott tagna 1935-1938.
Från New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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