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2012-05-30 436 notes

nprfreshair:

braiker:

An utterly charming gallery of Victorians smiling

Happy Afternoon, Internet!

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2012-05-27 77 notes

yama-bato:

André Kertész

Avenue de l’opéra vue de haut

Paris, 1929”

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2012-03-29 4,743 notes

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2012-03-26 98 notes

chagalov:

Man Ray in front of a portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse taken in the 1930s, Paris, 1954 -by Michel Sima [+]

from: Pierre Daix, ‘Paris des Arts - 1930-1950’, Édition de RMN et du Grand Palais, 2011

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2012-03-18 1,902 notes

thedailywhat:

Powerful Photo of the Day: Thailand-based Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj captures the oppressive bleakness of everyday life in Pyongyang with his prize-winning photo of a solitary, illuminated picture of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, haunting the capital city’s decaying Brutalist apartment blocks at night.

[msnbc / gizmodo.]

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Source: thedailywhat
2012-03-12 333 notes

nationalgeographicmagazine:

Sami Herder, Scandinavia
Photograph by Erika Larsen
Johan Kuhmunen, with his dog Cammu, lives in Sweden, but the summertime range for his family’s herd crosses into Norway. The Sami tradition of learning from the elders is an important part of reindeer herding, and knowledge is passed down from generation to generation and not learned in books.

(via wine-loving-vagabond)

Source: National Geographic
2012-03-02 5,343 notes

regardintemporel:

Riccardo Moncalvo - Cold Morning in the Suburbs of Turin, 1955

Source: regardintemporel
2012-02-29 39 notes

thecultofgenius:

Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms in Vienna.

Source: thecultofgenius
2012-02-27 92 notes

fckyeaharthistory:

William Eggleston - Untitled (Greenwood Mississippi), 1973.

This is for you, HAYLEY GRAY.
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Source: sfmoma.org
2012-02-26 159 notes

chagalov:

Salvator Dali and Gala - photobooth, 1930’s

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2012-02-08 80 notes

wonderfulambiguity:

Chris Steele-Perkins, Courtyard of the mental hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, 1997 | via

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2012-01-30 349 notes

thingsorganizedneatly:

Advertising photograph for Ladislav Sutnar China c. 1930 — photo by Josef Sudek (1896-1976)

Source: metmuseum.org
2012-01-27 3 notes

Princess Ira van Furstenberg by Richard Avedon, 1955