Showing posts with label Black and White Photographs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black and White Photographs. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
The Legacy of uTata Mandela
Mourning a Leader, Celebrating a Legacy - the South African Parliament pays tribute to a great man. It was a privilege for my family and I to be able to walk through the grounds of parliament in Cape Town yesterday. We were very moved by what we saw...
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Weekend!
A happy one to all...
Via here. (Charlestown High School - Girls exercising on bars against the wall, 1899, Boston Public Library)
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Faking it...
Some of my personal favourites from the first major exhibition that was devoted to the history of manipulated photography before the digital age - Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop (October 11, 2012—January 27, 2013) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Via here
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| Unknown Artist, German School, A Powerful Collision, 1910 |
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| Grete Stern, Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home, ca. 1950 |
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| Unknown Artist, American School, Man on Rooftop with Eleven Men in Formation on His Shoulders ca. 1930 |
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| Barbara Morgan (American, 1900–1992), Hearst Over the People, 1939 |
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| Maurice Tabard and Roger Parry, Room with Eye, 1930 |
Via here
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Searching for Sugar Man
Just more than a year ago, my husband and I were at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah for the première of Searching for Sugar Man... I blogged about it here and here. The documentary (directed by Malik Bendjelloul) is based on my husband, Craig Bartholomew-Strydom's 1997 article about 'finding' musician Sixto Rodriguez. So much has happened since that snowy January. The film has just won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards. We are beside ourselves...
And here is Craig holding the majestic statuette. "Heavy as a dumbbell" is how he described it! What a whirlwind...
Read an amusing Baltimore Sun article about his experience here...
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
"Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon"
A ghostly, milky white, lit as if only by moonlight, casts it's hue upon this Parisian apartment belonging to designers Gilles & Boissier...
Via Afflante (Quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet)
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Berenice Abbott
Some absolutely stupendous photographs, taken in the 30's and 40's, capturing a changing New York...
All photographs by Berenice Abbott (via here)
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| John V. Lacey, “Birdsmith”, New York, 1948 |
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| New York Stock Exchange, New York, 1933 |
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| News stand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, New York, 1935 |
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| Poultry Shop, East Seventh Street, New York, 1935 |
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| Treasury Building, New York, 1933 |
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| Watuppa From Brooklyn Waterfront, New York, 1936 |
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| Columbus Circle, New York, 1936 |
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| Designer’s Window, Bleecker Street, New York, 1947 |
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Crated
Sorry to be so monosyllabic at the start of this week... a rather 'cray-cray' weekend of packing, sorting, crying and 'well-I-never-ing'. Promise to be a little more verbose in posts to come, once those moving vans have left...
Via here
1. Paris, France: Statue of Liberty in Paris crated for shipment to the United States. 1887.
2. The Colossal Head of Bavaria in the Nave of the Crystal Palace by Philip Henry Delamotte. 1854
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Strictly No Elephants
and other oddities relating to the animal kingdom...
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| Circus, 1933 |
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| Russian circus, early 20th century |
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| Millie Betra, The Serpent Queen, Ringling Brothers Circus |
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