Author: un regard oblique

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hauntedbystorytelling:

Aside from a few stars like Constance Markievicz [in this photograph], who was second in
command at the rebels’ St. Stephen’s Green outpost in Dublin, or the
schoolteacher turned sniper Margaret Skinnider, most of the estimated
260 women who took part in the 1916 insurrection never found their way
into the history books. Eight women in the Easter Rising, here (source: NYTimes)

Electric elevator desks in Prague, 1937

/ unknown photographer

Though it looks like something out of Brazil (the movie directed by Terry Gilliam, 1985), these desks were real. The Central Social Institution in Prague was home to the world’s largest vertical file cabinet, with over 3,000 drawers. The desks could move up, down, left, and right at the push of a button. (src: KevlarYarmulke on Reddit)

Niddy Impekoven, ca. 1928

Atelier Robertson (1927–1933) :: Dancer Niddy Impekoven. From a group of four dance studies (Niddy Impekoven, Ellinor Bahrdt, Trude Engelhart, Ira Langenteels), ca. 1928. Each with the photographer’s studio stamp and handwritten annotations in pencil on the reverse. | src Ostlicht (Westlich) Photo Auction nº 14 (June, 2016)

“¿Qué es el vértigo? ¿El miedo a la caída?
¿Pero por qué también nos da vértigo en un mirador provisto de una valla
segura? El vértigo es algo diferente del miedo a la caída. El vértigo
significa que la profundidad que se abre ante nosotros nos atrae, nos
seduce, despierta en nosotros el deseo de caer, del cual nos defendemos
espantados.” –

Milan Kundera [La insoportable levedad del ser]

Vintage photograph from the 1930′s
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image original source: dandRphotos via
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