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Images. Les photos trouvées d'Hiroshima. Découverte étonnante que celle réalisée par un simple badaud du Massachusetts, un beau soir où il promenait tout bonnement son chien. Imaginez: au bord d'un trottoir, une valise remplie de vieilles photographies. Il la ramasse et y découvre des images prises à Hiroshima après l'explosion de la bombe qui, le 6 août 1945, rasa la ville en une fraction de seconde sous l'effet d'une boule de feu atomique. Ces photos exceptionnelles, découvertes par ce passant curieux, sont exposées jusqu'au 28 août à New York, à l'International Center of Photography. L'exposition présente une soixantaine de tirages qui montrent des poutres d'acier tordues comme des cure-pipes et des édifices pulvérisés comme des châteaux de cartes. Les images sont frontales, très dures, sans mise en scène. Ces photos saisissantes ont été trouvées par Don Levy, qui a ramené ce petit trésor à la maison et en a parlé autour de lui.

Ces documents appartenaient à l'origine à un ingénieur américain du nom de Robert L. Une vie de soldat - Musée Royal de Mariemont - Administration Générale de la Culture - Communauté française Wallonie Bruxelles. Mysteries of a Nazi Photo Album. Wednesday | Updated Readers of Lens and EinesTages quickly figured out that the photographer was Franz Krieger. (“World War II Mystery Solved in a Few Hours.”) And that his wife and children did not survive the war. Lens has shared this story with Der Spiegel, the leading German newsweekly, and Spiegel Online, its Web edition. We hope readers of Spiegel’s EinesTages site (Once Upon a Time) can help solve a 70-year-old mystery: Who created this photo album of the Eastern Front? Lens hat Spiegel Online bei dieser Geschichte um Unterstützung gebeten. There are certainly many photo albums of Nazi leaders and many photo albums of the Nazis’ victims.

At least one does, however, and it has surfaced in New York City. Two pages in this album, on the Eastern Front in 1941, are devoted to prisoners. Four pages later, there is Hitler himself, waiting at a train station for the arrival of Adm. Clearly, this photographer had a lot of access — and not a little talent. But who was he? Ogefr. Dr. Captured: Great Depression Photos: America in Color 1939-1943. Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders.

Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Connecticut town on the sea. Farm auction. Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Trucks outside of a starch factory. Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Children in the tenement district. Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains.

Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Backstage at the "girlie" show at the state fair. At the Vermont state fair. House.