
Kees Scherer :: Seeking Shells, Summer, 1955./ src: historicalpics1
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images that haunt us

Nubian pyramids dating from around 100 BCE to 150 CE,
located at Gebel Barkal in present day Sudan. Photograph taken during
the University of Chicago Expedition to Egypt and Sudan, 1906 / src: Stephen Ellcock

Children fish for shrimps in the rock pools on Hunstanton beach in Norfolk in 1905. (Photo: Mary Evans Picture Library) / stc: The Mirror

Josef Sudek :: Untitled, 1966. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print.
/ source: the saleroom
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Lina Bo Bardi at the Glass House, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1952
“Há um gosto de vitória e encanto na condição de ser simples. Não é preciso muito para ser muito.” – Lina Bo Bardi / via
lasmicrofisuras

James B.
Shackelford :: Hill wrapping badlands at Urtyn Obo, Roy Chapman Andrews at right and Dr. José A. Perez at center, Mongolia, 1928
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Bernard Plossu ::
Karina,
México,
1965 / via
fragrantblossoms and
sailingunderfalsecolours
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Miljenko Horvat :: Northern Ireland, nd. From
Gorgona Anti-magazine, No. 7, 1965 / src: avantgarde-museum
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Hiroshi Watanabe :: Octopus, no date (although it doesn’t seem like a H. Watanabe picture it is credited as his all around the web. Nevertheless, a really lovely pic: the woman in silhouette seeming to be collecting shells, the quiet sea, the octopus hanging, drying in the foreground… it’s up to you to reckon them as good o bad omen) / Thanks to
the-night-picture-collector
and paname
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