Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Jefferson Davis, 1859

Jefferson Davis, 1859 
(senator Mississippi, USA; later president Confederacy) 
Photographer: James McClees

Friday, April 25, 2014

Reading in sunlight, 1930s

Reading in sunlight, 1930s
(photogravure)
Photographer: F. Tillmanns, Mailand (Italy)

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Monday, April 21, 2014

Gustave le Gray, selfportrait, 1847

Gustave le Gray, selfportrait, 1847
- with his Daguerreotype camera -
(modern copy of daguerreotype)

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Monday, April 14, 2014

Girl washing her wooden shoes (Spakenburg 1920s)

Girl washing her wooden shoes (Spakenburg 1920s)
Photographer: Adriaan Boer, The Netherlands 

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Sunday, April 06, 2014

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Friday, April 04, 2014

First Bikini, 1936 (Ruth Langer)

First Bikini, 1936 (Ruth Langer)
* 10 years before the presentation by Louis Réard *
Photographer unknown 

Thursday, April 03, 2014