“Arched passage in the great bird cage.” National Zoo exhibit, St. Louis World’s Fair. / source: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1904. / via
Tag: vue de dos, view from behind, von hinten gesehen, vista posterior, Rückseite, back to camera
Gianni Berengo Gardin :: Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy 1954 | via kvetchlandia
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Annie Girardot and Renato Salvatori in Rocco e i suoi fratelli, directed by Luchino Visconti, 1960 / src: IMDb
Henri Cartier-Bresson :: Sukhumi on the Black Sea, Georgia (Abkhazia), 1954
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Man being tossed up with a blanket, Germany, 1920′s / Wandervogel movement. “Wandervogel”
can be translated as rambling, hiking, or wandering bird and the ethos is to shake off the restrictions of society and get back to nature and freedom. More info on source, here.
An Osaka Maiko in Ceremonial Dress, 1910′s / src: retro-vintage-photography
C.H. Claudy :: Carl H. Claudy Jr. watching the Wright Military Flyer during the Army
Trials at Fort Myer, 1908. National Air and
Space Museum Archives./ source: Smithsonian Libraries
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