

images that haunt us



Stefano Robino :: Il ciclista / The Cyclist, 1951
/ src: Point of View: Vintage Photographs of Italian Urban & Suburban Landscape

Earle (Detroit) :: John M. Stout – Champion Fancy Star Bicycle Rider of the World, n.d. / Cabinet card / src: luminous-lint.


According to Shorpy ─in this website the photograph is titled “Reverso”─ Frances Benjamin Johnston is posing here with two similarly cross-dressing friends. The “lady” is a gent identified in a few other FBJ photos as the illustrator Mills Thompson.

Peeking at planes
Cyclists standing on their bikes to peer at
Hendon
militar aerodrome, the most important in the UK, in 1911. (Topical Press Agency / Getty Images) source: ilpost.it