EARLY POSTER ART | The Steven Arnold Archive. 16 Real Old-Timey Photographs That Will Give you Nightmares. As we have explored before, taking old-timey photos out of context is a recipe for awesomeness. But there is a dark side, too. Some of what passed for everyday life 75 or 100 years ago would send you running screaming in the other direction today. And when those scenes are captured on grainy old-school film, you get the stuff of nightmares. #16. Religion Used to Be So Badass José Ortiz Echagüe, Vintage PhotographyThe only "music" that could rightly accompany this scene is toneless human screaming. We mean no offense to any particular faith here, but if you were standing in this spot taking this photo, you would fully expect to be human sacrificed within the hour.
This was actually taken in Spain in 1940, and this is a procession of people repenting their sins in a ritual for Semana Santa, celebrated the week before Easter. . #15. Corbis Images #14. Steven Kasher GalleryWe'd have less crime if modern cops looked this dapper. #13. . #12. Getty Holy shit. . #11. . #10. . #9. Raoul Ubac, via Vintage Works. Real life of Barbie by Mariel Clayton. Source: Tags: barbie. E. J. Bellocq. John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873 – 1949) was an American professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red light district. These have inspired novels, poems and films.
Life[edit] Bellocq was born in a wealthy white French Creole family in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Bellocq died in 1949, and was buried in Saint Louis Cemetery #3 in New Orleans. After his death, most of his negatives and prints were destroyed. In recent times, a significant number of prints from Bellocq's own studio have come to light. One of the deliberately damaged Storyville photographs. The E. The Storyville Photographs[edit] All the photographs are portraits of women. Some prints made by Bellocq have since surfaced.
The Storyville photographs not only serve as a record of the prostitutes, but also the interiors of the businesses that housed them. External links[edit] Joel Peter Witkin - C utare Google. Sally Mann. دخمه. Markus Schinwald Willy Ronis Charlie Engman Vettor Pisani Min Jeong Seo Pourtraits Des Hommes Illustres En Piete Et Doctrine Enrique Metinides Sol LeWitt Marlene Dumas Andrea Sanders Balcomb Greene Alex Brüel Josef Beuys Gregory Whitehead - Respirator Weegee George M. Victoria Haven Kon Trubkovich John McNab Karl Mydans Paul Kooiker Peter Downsbrough Virginia Overton Ralph Crane Irving Klaw (?) Tracey Moffatt.