Gordon Parks' pictures of showgirls matter simply because they're beautiful, and because they offer, as LIFE magazine noted, "living, breathing proof of the poet's point that beauty is its own excuse for being." His photos, in the end, is not that they offer oblique commentary on the drudgery of labor, or that they somehow reveal something about “show people” that we never knew. Parks’ color pictures are at-once charged with emotion and curiously prosaic. These are, after all, women with a job to do: the fact that they do it in front of avid audiences, while largely undressed, only makes the evident tedium of the work all the more poignant. (Photos by Gordon Parks—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
During the 1918 influenza pandemic, it was not uncommon to see store clerks, barbers, pedestrians, and even police equipped with protective face masks.
Albert Kahn’s photographic archive is a mesmerizing record of human history.
Gordon Parks' pictures of showgirls matter simply because they're beautiful, and because they offer, as LIFE magazine noted, "living, breathing proof of the poet's point that beauty is its own excuse for being." His photos, in the end, is not that they offer oblique commentary on the drudgery of labor, or that they somehow reveal something about “show people” that we never knew. Parks’ color pictures are at-once charged with emotion and curiously prosaic. These are, after all, women with a job to do: the fact that they do it in front of avid audiences, while largely undressed, only makes the evident tedium of the work all the more poignant. (Photos by Gordon Parks—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
The building was a safe haven for Black children and adults. A New York historian is on a mission to preserve a former “Colored School” in Chelsea, NBC News reports. Eric K. Washington is a New York-based historian who works to uncover and preserve historical information pertinent to Black life in the Big Apple. For […]
The Łódź Ghetto was a World War II ghetto established for Polish Jews and Roma following the 1939 invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto. Below are some rare color photographs that capture daily life at the Lodz Ghetto in 1943.
William Bullard's early 20th century portraits of his Worcester neighbors form a unique document of an American community of color.
Over the course of its extraordinary run as the preeminent photography magazine of its time, LIFE sent its photographers all over the globe to cover the most famous, shocking, thrilling, controversial newsmakers and events of the 20th century. Marilyn Monroe. Steve McQueen. JFK. The Hells Angels. Woodstock. Muhammad Ali. If something or someone was on ... Read more
The Census in 2020 will ask respondents about their U.S. citizenship, if the Trump administration officials in charge have their way.
German image-maker Michael Wolf's first retrospective exhibition shows urban living at its most extreme
Anastasiia Fedorova speaks to Gueorgui Pinkhassov about documenting nightlife and youth culture in the Russian capital in the early 1990s
Idyllic color photos of Ireland in 1927
The Independent Photographer had organized it’s monthly photo contest in February 2021,under the theme “Street Photography. An iconic contemporary
Wallace G. Levison took advantage of evolving film technology to freeze a city that never stops moving.
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Explore Gabriel Moreno Illustration's 1035 photos on Flickr!
It's difficult to imagine what the world was like 100 years ago but fortunately colourist Tom Marshall is here to help.Writing on Bored Panda, he explained that his favourite photographer was Lewis Hine, who documented child poverty in America and whose work as a sociologist eventually led to the ch...
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Michael Northrup has been documenting his life—and that of his friends and family—through funny snapshots for nearly four decades. For this year’s photo issue he shared some images from his extensive archive.
As part of his job as 'special military reporter,' Hugo Jaeger got to use advanced color photography during World War II. His work includes unique documentation of Jews in Warsaw, Kutno ghettos
Bring clarity and consistency to your lesson plans with Bloom's Verbs Posters! These bright and colorful posters with cleverly defined terms will transform your classroom into a learning powerhouse. With six revised steps in Bloom's Taxonomy, each poster includes a bullet list of verbs to guide you ...
Guardians of life: The indigenous women fighting oil exploitation in the Amazon Felipe Jacome’s set of photos Amazon: Guardians of Life documents the struggles of indigenous women defending the...
