Girls in a milk-bar, England, 1954 / src: April Mo
Tag: 1950s
Esther Williams as Annette Kellerman in Million Dollar Mermaid, a biopic directed by Mervyn LeRoy of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman, 1952
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In the alluring, atmospheric book “Jazz Images,” the late photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir conveys in images the French love of jazz and its heroes. Leloir, who worked for a wide range of publications, was able to take his photographs because the great musicians of the time came to France to perform, whether in Paris clubs and theatres or at the Antibes Jazz Festival, and many of the musicians whose portraits he took or whom he documented in concert were the luminaries of jazz modernity. Read more here.
Andreas Feininger :: Grass Spider Tunnel, 1951 / original source: ICP / via
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Helsinki, Olympic Games, 1952 / src: otto-bettmann
Ogle Winston Link :: Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper.
Silver print, notation, in ink, on verso.
1958; printed 1995
/ src: Swann Galleries
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Juni Ludowici’s Round House being transported down the River Thames, 1958. /
src Stephen Ellcock via
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