Paratroopers of the British 1st Airborne landing in fields of Arnhem during the opening hours of Operation Market Garden. Location: Holland. Date taken: September 17, 1944. Size: 1280 x 1158 pixels (17.8 x 16.1 inches) LIFE photo archive hosted by Google: “Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to [...]
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Chinatown Amsterdam 1972
March 10th, 2008
Binnen Bantammerstraat. 1972-73. Photographer: Ab Koers International Institue of Social History, Chinatown Amsterdam: In 1972, Chinatown in Amsterdam was photographed by Ab Koers. The IISG received this photo collection in 2006. Ab Koers originally took these photographs in and around the Binnen Bantammerstraat for a reportage, which appeared in the magazine Avenue in 1973. This [...]
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Photo albums of German soldiers
February 4th, 2008
Фотоальбомы немецких солдат. (Photo albums of German soldiers.) MeFi, Photo albums of German soldiers: “Photo albums of German soldiers. Fully scanned photos from the personal albums of German soldiers from the Second World War and the years preceding it.”
Tags: germany · history · photography · war · wo2
Yasumasa Morimura: Requiem for the XX Century
December 11th, 2007
A Requiem: Oswald, 1963, 2006. Gelatin silver print mounted on alpolic Yasumasa Morimura: Requiem for the XX Century. Zie ook Henry VIII’s Wives: Iconic Moments of the 20th Century.
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The Whale Hunt
December 11th, 2007
‘Hauling up Joe Ahkivgaq’s whale’, by Jonathan Harris. The Whale Hunt: “In May 2007, I spent nine days living with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost settlement in the United States. “ (via)
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Boris Mikhailov
November 19th, 2007
Boris Mikhailov, Superimposition. 1965. Color photograph. 30/120 cm x 40/160 cm. Edition: 7. Barbara Gross Galerie – Boris Mikhailov. (via)
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Mies van der Rohe – 123 photographs
November 15th, 2007
“View of the completed estate from the south: the houses by Schneck and le Corbusier.” Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart – Mies von der Rohe Kosmograd, 121 images of Mies: “At auction house Jeschke, Hauff & Auvermann in Berlin, on November 13th 2007 is an auction of 123 photographs from the prewar ouevre of Mies van der [...]
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