Saturday, August 14, 2010

Tuesday, August 10, 2010


Studio props in a 19th century photography studio.

Photographer: Gustave Cousin, Paris (ca 1870).

Thursday, August 05, 2010


Rich stable owner instructing his jockey.

Ca 1870.
Photographer unknown.

Monday, August 02, 2010




Nude model, Paris 1936.

Photographer: Man Ray
(vintage photogravure)

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Monday, July 26, 2010

In Aristide Maillol's studio, 1936.
Photographer: Brassaï.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Les 3 Grâces or Les 3 Nymphes.
(Photo made in the studio of sculptor Aristide Maillol, 1936).
Photographer: Erwin Blumenfeld.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Puente Antiguo (Arenas de S Pedro, Gredos), ca 1925.
Photographer: Otto Wunderlich, Madrid, Spain.

Monday, July 19, 2010

"The Far Away Melody".
Photographer: Rolf Tietgens (1945)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Photographer Nadar with his wife Ernestine in a balloon, ca 1860 (in his Paris' studio).

Photographer: Nadar (Felix Tournachon).
(Vintage photogravure, ca 1938).

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Ethiopians in the rain (1986).
Photographer: Alain Keler, France.

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Algerian young lady (prostitute), ca 1880.
Photographer unknown.

Monday, July 05, 2010

Photographer Pierre Petit with his Carte-de-Visite camera.
(Probably a self-portrait).
Ca 1870.

Friday, July 02, 2010

Tour de France, 1930 (Col d'Aubisque).
Photographer: G. Devred, Paris.

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Aquaduct near Via Latina, Rome ca 1870.
Photographer: Fratelli Alinari, Firenze.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Vietnam War ca 1965.
US soldiers carrying a Viet-Cong victim.
Photo: UPI New York (Photographer unknown)



Monday, June 21, 2010

Prostitute, Paris ca 1920.
(Photogravure dated 1940)

Photographer: Eugène Atget.
Sarah Bernhardt, ca 1870.

Photographer: Nadar (Felix Tournachon), Paris.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Surrealism in photography, 1974.

Photographer: Paul de Nooijer (Holland).