Just one more

Yes, pictures are needed, but this is absurd.

Steichen

The Man Child, Yucatán, 1938



















Found image at Sotheby's website by Googling "steichen man child." Saw photograph in Steichen's legacy: photographs, 1895-1973. edited and with text by Joanna Steichen. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.




Breadline on Sixth Avenue, New York, circa, 1930

In the picture in the book details are clearer; it looks as if the park, or lot, in the lower right-hand corner is between 42nd and 43rd Streets, on 6th Avenue.

Garbo, Hollywood, 1928






















Delphiniums

Bourke-White: 1930

Noontime on the "Play Street" of the Garment District (36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues), NYC, 1930 (from For the world to see: the life of Margaret Bourke-White / compiled, edited and with a biographical narrative by Jonathan Silverman ; preface by Alfred Eisenstaedt. New York : Viking Press, c1983, pp.32-33)

Bourke-White: 1945

Margaret Bourke-White: German civilians made to face their nation's crimes, Buchenwald, 1945

Chrysler Building

An interesting piece in this weekend's Wall Street Journal about the Chrysler Building. It really is a fascinating building: it can be called art, whereas most skyscrapers or simply other tall building, the Empire State Building included, are simply tall buildings. The only other building I can think of that has aesthetic beauty is the Woolworth Building.

The first picture is how the Chrysler looked in 1930 (notice the shadow on the lower left). The next image is a picture taken by Margaret Bourke-White in 1931.

Taken 18 May 2008 in Casa Norteña, Chichester

Burt Glinn, Chronicler of Cold War in Pictures, Dies at 82

Obituaries are often the way to learn about interesting people. This photographer took some great shots. This is one I like; all are good.

How about Glinn himself with a gun?

And Khruschev looking atLincoln

Philip Jones Griffiths, War Photojournalist, Dies at 72

A fascinating person whom I learned about by reading BBC News. His obit from the NY Times is here. Some great pictures, such as this one of "a group of men gathered outside Pentonville prison in North London where a friend of the group had been executed that morning."