Ladislav Postupa :: Captivity, 1994 / via
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Niddy Impekoven in “Der gefangene Vogel” / “The Caged Bird”, 1920’s / source: delcampe.net
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Julia Margaret Cameron :: ‘I Wait’, 1872
Albumen print by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) identified as a portrait of Rachel Gurney. Cameron set up a private studio at her Isle of Wight home at the age of 48, after her daughter gave her a camera, and she became expert at using the collodion wet-plate process.
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Men inspect a British airplane with folding wings, 1918. Unknown photographer or Agency.
Clara Bow as Mary in Wings, William A. Wellman’s film will forever be remembered as the first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards of 1929.
Takarazuka Girl, ca. 1920 – Unknown photographer. “Probably a Takarazuka Girl, if she had been born only 30 years earlier, she might have become a talented Geisha. Although my photo title paints her as a Japanese ‘Tinkerbell’, as flickr poster Muiz Anwar points out below, she is a Bumblebee or a bee, and not a Fairy.”
/ src: Okinawa Soba
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Sisters of Charity, Washington DC, 1956 / source: State Library of New South Wales
‘This group of nuns wearing traditional wimples was photographed from the mezzanine level of Washington National Airport, as they farewelled one of their order leaving for South America. The image is a visual puzzle, reminiscent of flowers or origami – until the hands are seen towards the bottom of the photograph.’ (Quoted from source) /
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