« Rail Magic » series, 1949
Tag: photo essay
Herbert List :: Transplantation, Präuschers´s Panoptikum, Vienna, 1944. From the photo-essay on “Praüscher’s Panoptikum”, a grotesque chamber of horrors dating from 1870, it contained wax figures of historical personages, inventions, events, crimes,
medical abnormalities and anatomical depictions. It was already banned at this time and by the end of the war was destroyed by the SS shortly thereafter.
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William Gedney :: Prince Albert / A Cornett boy smoking and holding tobacco can, Leatherwood, Kentucky, 1964
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William Gedney :: Cornett boys smoking by car, Leatherwood, Kentucky, 1964
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John Dominis ::
Not published in LIFE. Appalachia, eastern Kentucky, 1964.
Dominis shot an extraordinary 12-page feature for the Jan. 31, 1964, issue of Life, titled “The Valley of Poverty” — one of the very first substantive reports in any American publication on President Lyndon Johnson’s nascent War on Poverty.
/ sources:
livejournal and Time.com
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John Dominis :: Not published in LIFE. Appalachia, eastern Kentucky, 1964 / src: livejournal via
furtho (further information and photo gallery: Life Magazine at Time.com)
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W. Eugene Smith :: ‘A peasant woman moistens the fibers of locally grown flax and wraps it’ / Spinner, from ‘Spanish Village’: Smith’s landmark photo essay
originally published in the April 9, 1951, issue of Life magazine. / sources: Life and Swann Galleries
Ruth Orkin ::
Jinx with statue
/ Ninalee Craig [aka Jinx Allen], Florence, 1951 [from the photo-essay “Don’t be Afraid to Travel Alone”]
/ src: orkin photo
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