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This photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936 is an iconic image of the Great Depression. I tried to add another dimension by using some color and I think it came out pretty well.
Colored by Mark Jaxn
Okay, so I do like this old stuff.... The long green box BTW is for holding knitting needles, and the holes on top are for checking you've picked the right size .....
I was raised by my maternal grandmother and Jack was her favorite younger brother and was a photographer for LIFE magazine in China during World War Two.
As a child I grew up with posters of Peter Pan on the wall across from my bed, and Jack's Chinese soldier on the wall above me.
He died when I was nine.
As humans we build physical barriets to keep us safe, and use electronic gadgets to keep in touch with theoutside world. Yet, we are so mesmerized by these gadgets that we become oblivious to our immediate surroundings and the dangers that may lurk there...like a 275 Ib. cripple with a camera...
Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
Sir Noel Coward is arguably the epitome of flamboyance. English playwright, composer, singer, director and actor. That is why I decided to use his photo as a background for the exemplar Ansco Super Memar. Both are products of the 1950s. Loomis Dean captured Sir Coward in 1955 at the desert near Las Vegas to depict his song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". The camera was made in 1954 by Agfa, the same company that manufactured the film.
I made a few decent shots with this camera. The viewfinder is bright and uses a neat rangefinder, which focuses with relative ease. I love this camera for its functionality and for its classic look.
As for Dean's shot of Sir Coward, the urbane artist complained that he doesn't wake up until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. But with limo and a tub of ice and liquor, Coward was persuaded. He goes on to say, "Splendid, splendid ... now if only we have a piano."
This is my latest installment to paying tribute to vintage cameras and icons behind them. For techies, you would be please to note that I've been using the Carl Zeiss 100mm Makro mounted on the Canon 5d Mark ii set at f/22 and at a very long exposure. I'm also using LEDs to light up the subject. The killer shot is actually a composite of images shot from different lighting direction and later on layered so I can paint out desirable shadows and highlights.
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Wallace Kirkland, 'Life' magazine photographer, Australia, 1940, by Max Dupain, vintage gelatin silver print, Damien Parer papers and photographic material 1930-1964, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 28, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oVMPMn/xXemd0JEbL33e
LIFE’S COVER
“Marilyn Monroe had her first brush with fame at the beginning of World War II when she was 16 and working in an aircraft plant. An Army public relations photographer spotted her and, to boost wartime morale, shot her alongside every machine in the factory. These pictures got her work as a model and eventually led to a Marx brothers’ film in which her role consisted of walking into a room and out of it. ‘That’s a fine walk,’ said Groucho. ‘Now do it again more so.’ She took the advice and is now up among the Hollywood great.” [Note from the Editor]
Marilyn was on the cover of Life six times. This was the first, her debut cover by Halsman
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
[This is part of the Set about my Father and his home town, Halberstadt: www.flickr.com/photos/44548980@N00/sets/72157600287407882... ]
This was my description written a couple years ago when I first posted this photo for my birthday:
I want to dedicate this photo to my dear father Ralph Crane who gave me eyes to see the world --- from the heart.
Ralph Crane was a photojournalist - from 1931 when he was 18 years old, living in his home town of Halberstadt, Germany to the day he left us - way too soon, in 1988. He freelanced for several photo agencies, was published by the New York Times newspaper, the International Herald Tribune, Smithsonian, and countless other newspapers and magazines during the early days of photojournalism, and is best known for his photos published by LIFE magazine, from the first issue of the classic LIFE, in 1936, until its last issue in 1972. Here is his story: www.flickr.com/photos/44548980@N00/sets/72157600287407882/ .
Regarding this photo above: I was in San Francisco in April celebrating my love Peter Temple's 50th birthday. We enjoyed eating at a great little Indian restaurant called Tasty Curry by Golden Gate Park. They have fantastic murals on the walls! I am doing a self portrait here, looking into a mirror, and yes, that's a bandaid on my nose but I like this self portrait anyway. I had just had a little skin cancer removed. Too much Tahiti, California, New Mexico, and Colorado sunshine in my life, but still plenty of my nose left. ;0)
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Flapper Bat Girl - Life Magazine by Coles Phillips © 1927
The boy ran away to the circus and the illustration was created in an era when a clown was taken to be a good person in funny make-up; that is, until Stephen King’s “It” and a rash of other scary stories that portrayed clowns as murderous psychopaths. If the image looks somehow sinister, the dog in the clown hat with its chin resting on the clown’s knee should ease any worries about this clown’s intentions.
“AN AEROSPACE COP TO HELP POLICE THE BEAT
As vehicles of all kinds are spewed into space, the problem of policing the traffic will arise. Some of the objects will be harmless derelicts whose only crime is that they are blocking the road. Others, like the cluster of casings shown drifting past earth (upper right) may turn out to be military platforms orbited by an enemy to release bombs on command. The U.S. must be prepared to look them all over from maneuverable interceptors like this one, equipped with sensing devices to detect dangerous weapons and armed with rockets to destroy the offenders.”
Above is per the associated caption with the image, from the April 21, 1961 issue of “LIFE” magazine, as part of a pictorial article entitled “WILD BUT SANE IDEAS FOR SPACE FLIGHT”. Robert McCall created this & two other stunning works exclusively for this issue of the magazine.
The primary body of the article:
“Despite the triumph of Russia’s Major Yuri Gagarin, the race for space is not over. There are still plenty of events to run off which would probe deeper into space and explore its uses as a laboratory for the scientist or a battlefield for the future soldier. And there are still plenty of ideas waiting to be tested. The best hope for the U.S. is that Soviet competition will spur an attempt to convert these ideas into reality.
On these pages LIFE presents some imaginative new concepts which could be useful to both scientist and soldier. They were selected by Astronautical Engineer Tom Turner and rendered by Artist Robert McCall. Some of them may seem at first glance to be far out. Actually, each idea in this portfolio is already on the drawing boards of U.S. industry or government designers and could become a reality, with proper encouragement, in 10 to 20 years—or earlier. Some of the ships, like the solar sail above, are intended primarily for scientific research or for sheer adventure. Others, like the interceptor and the “Schmoo” shown on the following pages, could have a more deadly use. All the ideas are feasible. And all would be valuable—to whoever gets them first.”
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Sort of - about to be - prophetic? And the primary adversary was not even on the radar at the time. Fascinating & still just as concerning…to some…but not enough, which is disconcerting. Can you spell PRC???
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed inside the lunar module on the lunar surface following the second extravehicular activity (EVA) of his mission. Note lunar dust on his suit. The photograph was taken by astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, using a 70mm handheld Hasselblad camera and S0-368 film.
“An ex-Marine who covered combat in the Pacific and Korea, David Douglas Duncan went to Vietnam for ‘Life’ and ‘ABC News.’ In Vietnam, Duncan went where the bitter action was – Con Thien. Again, as in Korea, his subject was Marines. ‘I’m one at heart,’ he says, ‘I know their character from the past. There’s something kind of marvelous about them; it’s their simplicity, their generosity, their casual sharing of everything they have.’
“Using all his natural instincts for photographing violence plus all the artistry he had learned from years of showing beauty in the world, Duncan began recording men at war again. His story – 18 pages in length – is featured in this issue.”
“The astonishing photograph . . . is only one of the many surprises in an extraordinary new book. It is called ‘Jump Book,’ and in it the Duke and Duchess of Windsor plus 174 other celebrated people – from Marilyn Monroe (on the cover) to 87-year-old Judge Learned Hand – forgo gravity and self-consciousness in order to go up in the air. Never before has such a gathering been seen in such unexpected flight. Why did they all jump? Simply because Photographer Philippe Halsman asked them to. . .” [Text from the accompanying article]
The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. The artist saw his creation as representing the composite of "thousands of American girls". -- Wikipedia
Frank Xavier Leyendecker (January 19, 1876 – April 18, 1924), also known as Frank James Leyendecker, was a German-American illustrator. He worked with his brother Joseph Christian Leyendecker in their studio, first in Chicago, then later in New York City and New Rochelle, New York. F.X. Leyendecker is considered "the second" or "lesser" Leyendecker, as he was the younger brother of the longer lived and more prolific JC Leyendecker. Dozens of pieces show he was every bit as colorful, creative, entertaining and flamboyant as his older brother.
The younger Leyendecker was known for his stained glass work as well as his illustrations for posters, magazines and advertisements. He also painted covers for Street & Smith pulp magazines, such as People's Favorite Magazine and The Popular Magazine, as well as for Fawcett's pulp magazine Battle Stories. His painting for Battle Stories was originally created as a WWI recruitment poster that Fawcett Publications posthumously reprinted as a pulp magazine cover in 1931. [Source: Wikipedia]
Over a thousand Chicagoans from all over the city gathered at Millennium Park to perform David Lang's "Crown Out" in front of the Cloud Scape - commonly known as The Bean - and the surrounding plazas. With script in hand, the participants alternated between speech, song and shouts to express their anxiety, frustration and sense of isolation in today's society.
I just stumbled into this event and it took me a while to figure out what was going on. In the beginning it was quite chaotic,seemingly without synchronization, but then the leaders within each group took charge of all the individual groups and it became a quite beautiful and moving experience.
Because I get around in a motorized wheelchair, I was unable to move through the entire crowd, so I was only able to photograph the two groups right in front of the Bean.