Vivian Maier, an excellent New York street photographer who took thousand of photos in the 1950s and 60s, was left woefully unacknowledged during her time. It was only in 2011, two years after her death, that her photos were recognized for their raw beauty in a collection published by historian and collector John Maloof. MaloofContinue reading “33 Amazing Vintage 1950s Street Photos of NYC And Chicago”
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23 Amazing Vintage Photographs Taken Inside WWII Tank Factories
26 Amazing Vintage Photos That Show Life in the Shanty Towns During the Great Depression
Many of the shanty towns that sprung up all over the United States during the Depression were facetiously called Hoovervilles because so many people at the time blamed President Herbert Hoover for letting the nation slide into the Great Depression. In October of 1929, the stock market experienced a devastating crash resulting in an unprecedentedContinue reading “26 Amazing Vintage Photos That Show Life in the Shanty Towns During the Great Depression”
80 Amazing Photos of Shanghai, China between 1947 & 1949
Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from LIFE magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaosContinue reading “80 Amazing Photos of Shanghai, China between 1947 & 1949”
31 Terrifying Photos Showing the Early Days of Dentistry
People calling themselves dentists appeared in the late 1700s, though the profession wouldn’t be licensed for about 100 years. Before dentistry was licensed, doctors addressed tooth health. And before there were doctors, things were pretty dicey. If you think going to the dentist today is scary, imagine a guy with a bloody apron approaching youContinue reading “31 Terrifying Photos Showing the Early Days of Dentistry”
22 Amazing Photos of Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan in 1989
The final and complete withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from Afghanistan began on 15 May 1988 and ended on 15 February 1989 under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov. Planning for the withdrawal of the Soviet Union (USSR) from the Afghanistan War began soon after Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Central CommitteeContinue reading “22 Amazing Photos of Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan in 1989”
25 Amazing American-Made Station Wagons From the 1960s
28 Vintage Photos of the Streets of London in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
39 Amazing Photos of New York City Subway Passengers From the Late 1930s and Early 1940s
As photographic technology advanced—cameras became more portable and film more sensitive to light, requiring shorter exposure times—people were no longer required to stay still for pictures. Walker Evans was among the photographers who capitalized on this flexibility. Between 1938 and 1941, he took his camera underground, where he photographed subway riders in New York City.Continue reading “39 Amazing Photos of New York City Subway Passengers From the Late 1930s and Early 1940s”
20 Vintage Photos Show Beautiful Women’s Fashions in the Roaring Twenties
1920s fashion was the perfect blend between style and function. Beautiful clothes that allowed women to move. The 1920s heralded a dramatic break between America’s past and future. Before World War I the country remained culturally and psychologically rooted in the nineteenth century, but in the 1920s America seemed to break its wistful attachments toContinue reading “20 Vintage Photos Show Beautiful Women’s Fashions in the Roaring Twenties”
