Tag: staged

Robert Williams* :: Man reading newspaper on the banks of the Mississippi River,  Memphis, TN. while a barge** is passing by. Taken in August 7, 1961 and according to the watch, at 3:10 p.m.
Headline: ‘Soviet Alive, Well in 17th Orbit’ (The Soviet is

Gherman

Titov,

an air force pilot and cosmonaut

chosen to
fly the Vostok 2 in 1961) / more info and source: forensic genealogy

*

R. Williams was a staff photographer for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.

**

The barge is carrying the first Saturn V rocket engine, SA-1, used to launch Apollo 4.

Fred Morley :: The Milkman, October 10th 1940 (fox Photos) / src: Iconic Photos

“Morley, working for Fox Photos, knew that if he took the pictures of the destroyed homes, his photos would not be published. A lot of his earlier work had been censored. In front of a back drop of firefighters struggling to contain a fire, he had an idea. He borrowed the coat and milk carrier from a milkman and asked his assistant to walk across the bombed moonscape. London carries on, the stage photo proclaimed, and the censor waved the picture through.”

Keep Calm and Carry On, proclaimed the poster which was never used. Instead, various photos taken during the war, of ordinary people ‘carrying on’ conveyed the same message. [Quoted from source]