detroitnewsarchivist:

June 1 1935

An amazing photo archive of Detroit. Enjoy.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Horst Faas, who captured several iconic moments during the Vietnam War, died May 10. He was 79.

It was in Vietnam where Faas was severely wounded by a rocket fragment in 1967. A medic and a tank driver helped load him onto a helicopter, where he was dispatched to a medical facility.

“The only decision I made at that time was not to go to Honolulu or New York or anywhere, but to stay in Vietnam,” he said. “One reason being that I had total trust in military surgeons who were dealing with these problems day in, day out. And secondly, I tried to avoid having my legs broken again at the New York head office and being made a photo editor at headquarters, ‘cause that would have ended the great days of photography, eh?” [complete 1997 interview here]

livelymorgue:

March 4, 1968: “Don’t call them paper dresses,” began a report about a line of disposable dresses that could be reimagined as posters. The one seen here features Cape Kennedy. Another? An Allen Ginsberg poem. “The intent is for pretty  young things to buy them on impulse and wear them to the beach or parties,” the reporter wrote. “Matrons, stay away.” Photo: Arthur Brower/The New York Times 

Welcome to Tumblr, @NYTimes Photo Blog!

Kevin Whitehead reviews a new DVD set that catches a rare solo Monk gig, plus sets by John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin and others.

[Portrait of Thelonious Monk, Minton’s Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947] (LOC) (by The Library of Congress)

smokesandballoons:

@ToriAmos stopped by @NPR studios yesterday for a performance chat with @TellMeMoreNPR. 

Shot w/ @ImpossibleUSA PX600 Silver Shade Grey Frame Film

Becky takes Polaroid pictures of people who visit NPR HQ in DC.

timelightbox:

© Phel Steinmetz

A new exhibition explores the fascinating evolution from the sublime, high-contrast style of Ansel Adams’ photography to the cool, detached documentary look favored in the 1970s and 1980s. See more here. 

Retracing Ansel Adam’s Steps

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The icegirls cometh

todaysdocument:

Girls deliver ice. Heavy work that formerly belonged to men only is being done by girls. The ice girls are delivering ice on a route and their work requires brawn as well as the partriotic ambition to help. 09/16/1918

From the Records of the War Department; American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918

latimes:

In 1953, smog gets so bad in the shadow of City Hall that pedestrians carry rags to wipe away tears. Scientists began collecting smog particles in the 1950s to analyze what was causing the haze. The primary culprit turns out to be automobiles, not factories.

Photo: City Hall, merely across the street, is dim as Marion E. Lent gropes her way to work. Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

Our Vintage Times series is presented on Tumblr with photography from the Los Angeles Times archives.

Under the Sea with Wayne Levin’s pictures.

Photography: In Afghanistan, Flowers Call The Shots

Surreal Environmental Images

Chin up, folks, it’s almost Friday. 

Tompkins Sq. Pk. (by George Eastman House)

(1957) Dr. Mark Mills drawing diagrams on a blackboard during testimony before the Congressional Joint Atomic Energy Committee hearings on atomic radioactive fallout

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Picturing Dorothy

The earliest American attempts in duplicating the photographic experiments of the Frenchman Louis Daguerre occurred at NYU in 1839. John W. Draper, professor of chemistry, built his own camera and made what may be the first human portrait taken in the United States, after a 65-second exposure. The sitter, his sister Dorothy Catherine Draper, had her face powdered with flour in an early attempt to accentuate contrasts.

(via NYU)

Eerily Beautiful 1920s Australian Mugshots