Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was a Luxembourgian American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He began by studying pictorialist photography and his early work expressed the romanticism of the early 20th century with artful, dark, and foggy images of the countryside. His photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 areContinue reading “40 Stunning Fashion Photos Taken During the 1920s and 1930s”
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49 Remarkable Photos From The 1900s Showing The Struggles of Child Laborers Volume 1
In 1908 Lewis Hine picked up his camera and became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. It was a start of a long decade, as Lewis traveled across the country, documenting child labor, getting constant threats from factory owners as the immorality of child labor was supposed to be kept away from theContinue reading “49 Remarkable Photos From The 1900s Showing The Struggles of Child Laborers Volume 1”
50 Beautiful Color Photos of Audrey Hepburn during the 1970s
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British[a] actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed ListContinue reading “50 Beautiful Color Photos of Audrey Hepburn during the 1970s”
36 Amazing Photos of Life in Canada during the Late 1940s & 1950s
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891Continue reading “36 Amazing Photos of Life in Canada during the Late 1940s & 1950s”
44 Old Color Photos Made With Autochrome That Remain Magnificent Over A Century Later
20 Rare Color Photographs of the Continuation War from the Early 1940s
The Continuation War, also known as Second Soviet-Finnish war, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany, against the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1941 to 1944, as a part of World War II. In Soviet historiography, the war was called the Finnish Front of the Great Patriotic War. Germany regarded its operations in theContinue reading “20 Rare Color Photographs of the Continuation War from the Early 1940s”
30 Awful Album Covers Volume 5
15 Unusual and Bizarre Beauty Devices From Between the 1920s and 1940s
These vintage pictures below describe how terrible beauty care procedures looked like in the 1920s and 1940s. Women now must be happy they don’t have to spend many hours sitting under strange devices or put weird things on their faces.
40 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Berlin in the Mid-1960s
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union’s most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany’s sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg’s capital. Berlin’s urban area,Continue reading “40 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Berlin in the Mid-1960s”
