
Ramón Masats :: The Prado Museum, 1963. Vintage gelatin silver print on paper. / src: Museo Reina Sofia
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Ramón Masats :: The Prado Museum, 1963. Vintage gelatin silver print on paper. / src: Museo Reina Sofia
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Potty training, 1950′s
Curiosa istantanea scattata in un asilo per l’infanzia degli anni cinquanta: un gruppo di bambini, seduti sul vasino, ascolta la puericultrice che legge loro una storia / Curious snapshot taken at a kindergarten in the fifties: a group of children sitting on the potty, listen to the pediatric nurse who reads them a story. / src: Olycom, Progetto DIA, Archivio fotografico INDIRE

Rock and Sail Boat | This image is one of several examples of a largely ignored facet of old Japanese photography – a genre called “Taisho art” or “Taisho pictorial photography”. The pictorialism movement in Japan reached its peak during the reign of emperor Taisho (1912-26), thus the name attached to the genre.
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Ramón Masats :: Las Ramblas, Barcelona, 1955 / Vintage gelatin silver print on paper. / src: museo reina sofia
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A Tranquil Scene on Lake Ashi, seen from the shores of Hakone Village as Mt. Fuji rises beyond the distant headlands.’ A beautiful albumen photo from over 120 years ago.
From the lens on the camera to the lip of Fuji’s crater is 32 Kilometers = 20 miles. / src: Okinawa Soba

Ramón Masats :: Barcelona,1954 / Vintage gelatin silver print on paper. / src: Museo Reina Sofia
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Captain Jim Gardner operating his vessel Fortuna, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, CA, 1898 (Svenson Photo n. 266) / source: Islapedia