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Glamour. The Fray Bentos photostream needs it desperately. Mrs B recently came across a cache of old negatives, taken when she was seventeen by her Portugese boyfriend Antonio. I have spent quite a few hours in recent weeks scanning the damn things and feel I have earned the right to post one or two. Antonio was not always an expert lensman, particularly in the matter of focus, but this is one of his better efforts.
"You sher got a purdy mee-ath", I drawled, with a repulsive leer, when Mrs B came to view the results.
"I can't believe how thin I was", she opined.
Me neither. Most people accept what they are told is fashionable. Twenty years later "stand-up" comedians start making "ironic" post-modern references to it and middle-aged people who wore platform soles and had their hair "layered" think how broad-minded, "laid back" and generally hip they are because they can laugh at it. Some contradiction here surely? The seventies were the decade that taste forgot and it is one of my minor boasts that I knew it at the time, when most people went along with flared trousers, droopy moustaches and all those ghastly orange and brown curtain fabrics. I disliked these terrible spectacles, with their huge lenses, when everybody was wearing them. Eventually they produced a reaction ...or, rather, it was decided that there should be a reaction... and lenses became small, even minuscule.
Just remember, people in the offices of fashion houses are, at this very moment, deciding what colours and styles you will be wearing in three years' time; and when the time comes you will believe you chose them yourselves.
the sadness of items left behind. these spectacles were on a window sill in an abandoned mine, covered in dust and spider webs. who wore them?
Concert symphonique face au conseil constitutionnel place du palais royal, organisé par la CGT spectacles, un excellent moment de détente en cette période de crise
[Minister wearing spectacles]
[ca. 1850]
1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
Notes:
Case: variant of Rinhart 114.
Sitter's eyeglasses are gilt.
Original served by appointment only.
Hidden witness : African-American images from the birth of photography to the Civil War / Jackie Napoleon Wilson. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Purchase; Christies, New York; 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:120).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Daguerreotypes--1840-1860.
Portrait photographs--1840-1850.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Part Of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 95861318
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g12547
Call Number: DAG no. 1410
Photograph. Plain back. 10.9 x 7.8 cm [not including mount].
Bought from an eBay seller in Hamburg, Germany.
Note again the creative use of space. And just what is he reading? Some sort of Greek pamphlet?
c.1900?
I often wear reading glasses when I sit down to read a book, as I did today. I use a slip of plain paper as a bookmark and keep a pencil in the case to jot down anything that occurs to me.
The southwestern region of the US is home to the largest concentration of national parks, national monuments, state parks and scenic roads. The area known as the Grand Circle includes five states (Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada). Nowhere else in the country has the diversity and colors of the landscape. It seems like everyone who visits there has a favorite spot, and it is hard to argue with any choice. My two favorites are Arches National Park and Monument Valley.
The formations in Arches all have their own names. This one is comprised of two "windows", the North Window and the South Window. These openings in the formation are huge, as a person standing at the bottom of one would be a mere speck in the photo. Many visitors go to visit each window separately but unless you look at it from the side, they don't realize that the whole formation takes the form of eyeglasses, resulting in the name of "The Spectacles".
Portrait by Leica M9 + Nokton 50 1.1
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torino may 1987.......- italy -
the "Biennial of Photography" .......stolen......
© Immogen Cunningham
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Seasoned watchers of the South Yorkshire RHTT have come to expect the odd falling down and the last few days have been no exception with the 'back again so soon' trip to Roberts Road for attention to wheelsets occurring .
And the season started off so well with HNRC duo 20311 and 20314 performing without fault .
The duo are seen working the 3S14 1132 Woodburn Jct - Hull , shortly after setting off .
8 10 19
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
~Antoine de Saint Exupery~
A young lady posing in front of a Hydrangea paniculata shrub. She is wearing a floral dress and spectacles in the fashion of the 1930s. I discovered this charming vintage photograph at a flea market in Stuttgart.
Country of origin: Germany
Seagull, North, and South Window natural arches in Entrada sandstone. North and South windows also known as the Spectacles.
Papa stared into his spectacles. He stared into them
when he stood to attention with his very un-Papa-like bayonet fixed.
He photographed the others, fixed every grin, the seriously masculine
young soldiers waiting at the Line, drilling,
sporting, not yet dead (the Panzers barely paused).
His shutter scraped shut, each spool twelve frames.
Each grey image a last look, a story’s end: boys expected home,
their beds made and bicycles hanging from meat hooks.
They lay, black-tabbed and pressed into albums,
stringed into bundles, moved from house to house
in a chest of “Papa’s things” long after his not so
different death, and then binned.
©Brightasafig
Papa regardait dans ses lunettes. Il regarda
quand il se mit au garde avec son très pas-du-tout-Papa baïonnette.
Il a photographié les autres, fixé chaque sourire, le sérieux masculine
jeunes soldats d'attente à la ligne, parader,
sportif, pas encore mort (les Panzers peine pause).
Son obturateur raclée fermées, chacune de douze bobines cadres.
Chaque image grise un dernier regard, à la fin d'une histoire: boys devraient maison,
leurs lits faits et des vélos suspendus à des crochets de viande.
Ils pondent, en noir et pressé à onglets dans des albums,
attaché avec de la ficelle en faisceaux, déplacé de maison en maison
dans un coffre de «Choses De Papa" longtemps après sa pas si
autre mort, puis jete en poubelle.
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