
*Se trata de obras fotográficas que retratan primerísimos planos de “flores que, en realidad, no son naturales sino que son reproducciones artificiales fabricadas en Francia a finales del siglo XIX” con fines didácticos.
images that haunt us


Portable Hair Dryer, 1961. | src instagram



William Hall Raine ::
Just a man on his bicycle, 1949. Source and hi-res : Museum of New Zealand / via back-then

Kees Scherer :: View Alcatraz, San Francisco, 1959 / via marckald

A police officer directing traffic in London’s fog with the help of an “apparatus connected with the gas main, November 1935. Caption for the photo explains that the “device can be folded up and put in a metal box sunk
in the street.” | src New York Times

Anonymous photographer, Cloud of Birds, USA, ca. 1986 (?) / original source: Lumière des Roses
via
lumieredesroses

American actress Colleen Moore (1900 – 1988) working out in her yard with a rowing machine, 1927

AN EYE ON SPACE – BARBARA LYNDON peers through part of a space wheel that will be carried into orbit by the new Tiros M weather satellites. The mirror for the Stabilite or space wheel will provide position information for attitude control of the satellite. Jan., 20. 1970 (written on verso). Press Photo. source: ITM