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Doing laundry in the Central Park lake, December 16, 1949—the day the photo was taken—was “dry Friday” in New York City. Thanks to a severe drought that left upstate reservoirs at 34 percent capacity, city residents were forbidden to shave, bathe, or do any other activity that day if it required water.These three women—Copacabana girls, part of the East Side nightclub’s famous chorus girl lineup, per the caption on the photo—are demonstrating their patriotic duty to do laundry without any running water. / source: Ephemeral New York

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heterotopian:

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

The wall with the lines and patterns of the stones are in a great harmonic rhythm and built a perfect frame of the more chaotic part with it’s pillars, ruin and people. It’s like two different worlds with a gate between them. For me the highlight of this photo is the woman who is leaving the chaotic part and enters the gate with such a great determined expression.
A nice addition is the quote, which I really like and I think it fits perfectly to the photo. Or at least to what I see in this photo.

Thank you Heiko for hosting MAD

PWS – Photos Worth Seeing

Source: heterotopian

Mario Cresci

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Inside views / Interiors, 1967-1978 / via
realityayslum

“1967 was the year of the first Ritratti mossi (a study resumed
later in 1974), figures in interiors whose faces are blurry in a moved
photo. While objects and places are in focus and are therefore visible,
the people are out of focus: newcomer Cresci tries to tell a story of
their identity through the physical data of the environment.

[…]

Between 1978 and 1979, he produced a series of portraits in Barbarano
Romano, returning to the idea of cancelling the appearance of people
through the blur effect. He also included himself among them.”

quoted from original source: mufoco.org

Source: realityayslum

Katharine Hepburn (RKO, 1930′s).

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casually beautiful portrait of the young star in a striped art deco
bathing suit, ready for a day at the beach. Just a tremendous Golden Age
of Hollywood artifact that appears to have been published in an issue
of Motion Picture Magazine. The exact year is unknown, but handwritten
text to verso seems to link this to a publicity campaign for a Hepburn
movie that never completed filming, “Three Came Unannounced.” original source: eBay / via
gmgallery