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George Bernard Shaw: unseen private pictures are to be made available online - Telegraph
c1886: Portrait of Shaw, probably wearing a stockinette Jaeger suit, looking straight at the camera, possibly taken by Emery Walker
Tripp Evans: Grant Wood's Women From New Book 'A Life' (PHOTOS)
As a child, Wood was fascinated by his family’s tintype albums. In this image he recreates a late-nineteenth-century image of his Aunt Tillie – with a few significant alterations. Whereas Aunt Tillie’s original tintype is less than four inches high, in this painting her figure is projected slightly larger than life-size; her neck is monstrously elongated, and her throat neatly sliced by a black choker. Intended to illustrate the clash between the Victorian and modern worlds (the telephone beside her mirrors the shape of her neck), this unsettling image says far more about Wood’s inability to reconcile these two periods than his aunt’s.
"Victorian Survival" (1931), Dubuque Museum of Art, on long-term loan from the Carnegie-Stout Public Library. click link for photos.
After a fashion: 145 years of stylish photography | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn on location in Paris for the filming of the Paramount musical Funny Face. Originally published in the Picture Post in 1956
gulfnews : The selected works of Noor Ali Rashid
The late Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum with Noor Ali Rashid. Rashid commanded much respect in the UAE from photographers to high-level government officials. 13 photos
Mao's revolution: caught on camera:60 years later
Hou Bo was there when the People's Republic of China was founded 60 years ago, capturing it on camera as Mao Zedong's personal photographer
Nurse being kissed in iconic wartime picture dies, aged 91 | World news | The Guardian
Edith Shain is kissed by an American sailor while thousands jam Times Square, New York, to celebrate victory over Japan in 1945. Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
A nurse who was photographed being kissed in Times Square in New York to celebrate the end of the second world war in 1945 has died, aged 91.
The iconic VJ Day picture of Edith Shain by Alfred Eisenstaedt was published in Life magazine.
The identity of the nurse in the photograph was not known until the late 1970s when Shain wrote to Eisenstaedt to say that she was the woman in the picture. It was taken on 14 August 1945 when she had been working at Doctor's Hospital in New York.
Nurse being kissed in iconic wartime picture dies, aged 91 | World news | The Guardian
Edith Shain is kissed by an American sailor while thousands jam Times Square, New York, to celebrate victory over Japan in 1945. Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
A nurse who was photographed being kissed in Times Square in New York to celebrate the end of the second world war in 1945 has died, aged 91.
The iconic VJ Day picture of Edith Shain by Alfred Eisenstaedt was published in Life magazine.
The identity of the nurse in the photograph was not known until the late 1970s when Shain wrote to Eisenstaedt to say that she was the woman in the picture. It was taken on 14 August 1945 when she had been working at Doctor's Hospital in New York.
FIVE BOYS: THE STORY OF A PICTURE | More Intelligent Life
For 70 years, this picture has been used to tell the same story – of inequality, class division, “toffs and toughs”. As an old Etonian closes in on Downing Street, it is being trotted out again. But what was the story behind it? Ian Jack investigates ...
From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Spring 2010
Almost since its invention, photography has had the habit of turning people into symbols by accident. A painter might spend a year on a canvas, working up the personification of an abstract idea to its full visual glory (“Truth Triumphant” or “Temptation Denied”), but a camera could capture a scene in a fraction of a second, and if the scene was somehow striking and memorable – in its composition, its subject matter, its light – it might become “iconic”, meaning that its particulars might be understood to suggest much more general emotions, conflicts and problems. When the shutter clicked, such a metaphorical future was rarely suspected either by the photographer or his subjects, who might not even be aware that a picture had been taken. The moment could be ordinary or extraordinary: a couple kissing in a Paris street, a sharecropper and her children in California, a burning child running down a road in Vietnam. It could happen anywhere, to anybody. It might happen even at an old-fashioned English cricket match.
David Birkin: Compound Ghosts - Telegraph
From the series 'Confesssions' Photo: DAVID BIRKIN
David Birkin works with photography and performance to recount the ephemeral. His interest lies in the overlap between the two, where the life of the artwork exists in two places at once –first via the original event, and second within the visual echo or trace it leaves behind on a single two-dimensional image. Often these events are constructed by Birkin, but he is equally adept when drawing from history, plumping his concept until it positively glows with allusions. The result is a body of work that teases our struggle and fascination with limits – of perception, existence, knowledge and death.
