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via yingce: Uzbek woman (1880). Higher resolution here.
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endilletante: THE DAWN OF THE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH : ALBERT KAHN’S ARCHIVES OF THE PLANET BY Okuefuna, David, 2008. Higher resolution here.
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Diana Ross: 1982. Harry Langdon, Getty Images. Higher resolution here.
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Portrait of Haitian Girl (by United Nations Photo). Higher resolution here.
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Albanian woman Ellis Island, 1905 (by Lewis Hine). Higher resolution here.
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Uitgelaten jongens hangen na de bevrijding aan de deur van een rijdende trein, 1945 (Children hanging on a full train after the liberation), by Menno Huizinga (from Nederlands Fotomuseum). Higher resolution here.
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Detroit Lost And Found: Vintage Photos Speak Volumes. In 2009, Italian photographers Arianna Arcara and Luca Santesewere on assignment in Detroit to document the U.S. economic crisis. While wandering around the city, they kept coming across old photos. They gathered about 1,500 over the course of two trips and, writes Arcara via email, “we fell in love.” “We thought we could do a better job working on this material that was actually taken from the people that lived in that town … instead of taking pictures of the aftermath of the crisis.” And so they compiled about 200 of those photos in a book,Found Photos in Detroit. “Most of the photos are probably from a police station,” Arcara explains, “but the book is not about an archive of the Detroit Police Department.” With little-to-no context, there’s not much you can do but wonder: about the little boy with the marks on his body, the threatening notes, the water-damage, the little bits of evidence left behind to tell the story of a city and of those who live there. In Arcara’s words, the photos “speak for themselves, without the need to fill them with other meaning.” Hat tip to KPCC Buy the book here. Higher resolution here.
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via lynxolita: Ava Gardner. Higher resolution here.
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Turkish Farmer series (from Markus Schwarze’s flickr photostream). Higher resolution here.
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Untitled. Mobile, 1956 (by Gordon Parks, held by the Gordon Parks Foundation). Higher resolution here.
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via iwanttheairwaves: “In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.” - Mao Tse-Tung Higher resolution here.
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USA (from Steve McCurry’s official website). Higher resolution here.
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via vintagegal: cute Bettie Page. Higher resolution here.
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King Kalakaua of Hawaii, 1882 (from the Hawaii State Archives Digital Collections, call number PPWD-15-4-018). Higher resolution here.
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Scenes from 21st-Century China (via The Atlantic In Focus). China, the most populous country and the second-largest economy in the world, is a vast, dynamic nation that continues to grow and evolve in the 21st century. In this, the latest entry in a semi-regular series on China, we find images of tremendous variety, including astronauts, nomadic herders, replica European villages, pole dancers, RV enthusiasts, traditional farmers, and inventors. This collection is only a small view of the people and places in China over the past several weeks. [47 photos] Ethnic minority students study in class as they sit in front of a blackboard at a preschool in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, on June 7, 2012. An emblem of the Chinese Communist Party and part of a slogan which reads: “Great earth is the flowers’ cradle, great motherland is our cradle” are visible on the blackboard.(Reuters/Stringer) # Higher resolution here.
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