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 today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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‘I loved that he cleaned up after himself before leaving an ice cream shop in Wapello, Iowa. He didn’t have to. The event was over and the press had left. He is used to taking care of things himself and I think this is one of the qualities that makes Obama different from so many other political candidates I’ve encountered. Nov. 7, 2007.’ (link)

The Digital Journalist, Travels With Barack

“Four years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, “I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road.” Her first photo essay on Obama was two and half years ago. She has stuck with him ever since.”

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‘Senator Obama was doing press interviews by telephone in a holding room between events. Sometime later as he was getting ready to begin his event, he asked me if I was photographing his shoes. When I said yes, he told me that he had already had them resoled once since he entered the race a year earlier. Providence, R.I., 3/1/2008.’ (link)

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 reportage, made together with journalist Nico Polak, was characterised as ‘stunning and outstanding’ in the book De rafelrand van Amsterdam (The frayed edges of Amsterdam). In this 1977 publication, the Chinese minority were labelled as ‘not easily approachable’.

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.”

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.

‘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. “

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Boris Mikhailov, Superimposition. 1965. Color photograph. 30/120 cm x 40/160 cm. Edition: 7.

Barbara Gross Galerie – Boris Mikhailov. (via)

“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 Rohe. Now my understanding is that Mies was notoriously restrictrive about images of his work being distributed and published, so these are a real find.”

Zie ook: Mies, a photoset on Flickr.

“Belzoni, Miss., in the Delta area. Oct. 1939. Negro man entering movie theater by ‘Colored’ entrance.” Photo and caption by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.”

Shorpy Vintage Photos | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Bannerman’s Island, Hudson River. Photo Shaun O’Boyle.

BLDGBLOG:

“I have a thing for abandoned islands, so I was excited to see Shaun O’Boyle‘s photo series of Bannerman’s Island, an old, half-flooded and fire-damaged derelict mansion built on a small island in the Hudson River.”

Dismantled Spaces – Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2006, Jan Theun van Rees

Jan Theun van Rees, One Wall Away.

Iggy Pop, by Daniëlle van Ark

Daniëlle van Ark, After the Lights go out, Mine Flashes….

“is an ongoing series of portraits of muscians that walked right of stage after they performed and sit down in my ‘studio’ backstage. The whole proces takes about two minutes usually and my main goal is to get someone as pure as possible, before they start thinking about their image again.”

(Via Trendbeheer.)

Robbie McEwen, by Timm Kölln

Timm Kölln, Racing Cyclists:

“What was supposed to be a spontaneous approach to my favourite sport and its protogonists during the Giro d’Italia 205 turned out to be one of my most challenging portrait series.

Since then I have been travelling to many important races, portraying the cyclist immediatley after crossing the finishing line. Though they stand still, the race, in this moment, seems to continue on their faces.”

“The series of photographs entitled The Iconic Moments of the 20th Century emerged in the processual work with the pensioners in a home for the elderly in Glasgow emanates the same impression. A group of aged volunteers pose in their everyday outfits and in their daily environment (the vicinity of the Home) to re-enact the scenes from well-known newspaper photographs taken from history books and encyclopaedias.”

Via VVork.