


images that haunt us




David Hurn ::
Children play with their model yachts in one of the ponds in the Jardin des Tuileries within sight of the Lourve museum, Paris, 1982 / src: Magnum Photos
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Ruth Orkin :: Washington Monument, Washington DC, 1939 © Ruth Orkin Photo Archive / src: Mai Mano Haz
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Washington Basin, Monument Reflection, unknown date / src: found-photographs-new-acquisitions

Frogman in a basin of the Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1970.
(Roger Viollet Agency) / src: paris-d-antan

“Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.“
June 30, 1922.
National Photo Co.
/ source and hi-res: Shorpy