Vintage snapshot of a man doing handstands on a diving board at dawn, 1927 / src: eBay
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Lilies · a Lilliput comparison
This image appeared in Lilliput Pocket Omnibus (aka Lilliput: The Pocket Magazine for Everyone) (1937-1938) which was a pocket-sized monthly magazine produced by Stefan Lorant, Hungarian photojournalist, author, and filmmaker who had served time in a Nazi prison. The magazine was known for Lorant’s juxtapositions of images for political or aesthetic effects. | source Flickr
George Caddy :: ‘Beachobatics’. The Graham gymnasts doing a six-man ground pyramid (from left to right, top row) Wal Balmus, Frank Cottier and Max Stewart hand-balance off Vic Whitehead and Jack Goldberg (face obscured), all supported by bearer Alf Stanbrough, Bondi Beach, Australia, 1936
src: State Library of New South Wales
George Caddy :: ‘Beachobatics’. Arthur Coutts and his daughter Pauline, who performed at the Tivoli doing a one-hand balance on balance canes, Bondi Beach, Australia, Nov. 1939 / src: SL of NSW
Pedro Momini :: Italian acrobat Santin Vanzella, from Raffetto Circus, balancing with
one hand poses for the photo on the top of the ‘Moving Stone’. The
acrobat chose to promote his show there while his companions did it
walking on cables lying between different buildings of the city of Tandil, Argentina.
The photograph records the final moment of Vanzella’s display doing handstands, first with both arms and finally is held for a few seconds
only with his right arm. This
is one of the most striking images of the ‘Piedra Movediza’ that was taken
by the photographer Pedro Momini, whose shadow appears in the bottom,
and was published in the magazine Caras y Caretas in the edition of May
5, 1900. / src: viral diario
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Louis Faurer :: Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 1944-45 / via last picture show
un regard oblique 