Maiko (apprentice Geisha) from Kyoto wearing their distinctive Darari Obi (dangling obi) and Hikizuri Kimono, which have full hems that trail after the wearer, 1931
(source: Nationaal Archief / Het Leven magazine)
Tag: 1930s
Gerti Deutsch :: Aus dem Musterbuch, 1936, from the exhibition Destiny Emigration
/ Fotohov archiv and gettyimages
/ src: photography-now
Leni Riefenstahl
:: Swimmer, Summer, Berlin, Germany, 1936 / via
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Willem van de Poll :: Children eating Ermi ice cream, 1933 / source: Nationaal Archief
Dutch skater in traditional costume, The Netherlands, 1933, location unknown / original source: Nationaal Archief
The annual penny farthing bicycle race ~ Herne Hill velodrome, South London, 1937
[Keystone France]
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Two couples dancing to jazz on the riverside, played on a punt by two women dressed in swimming costumes. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) England, 20th June 1931 / source: ilpost.it
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)
“¿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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