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Londres en 1880. En 1880 la « Society for Photographing Relics of Old London » a été créée pour photographier les bâtiments de Londres qui allaient êtres détruits pour moderniser son urbanisme. Les longs temps de pose nécessaires à cette époque rendent la ville vide, à l’exception de quelques personnages immobiles. Haunted Air: Halloween Photos 1875-1955. Ghosts of History - Amsterdam : un album sur Flickr. La vida de vagabundos americanos (42 fotos) » Curiosidades. Ruth Orkin Photo Archive. Look-at-shadow.jpeg (JPEG Image, 600x379 pixels) Early 1900s in Colour - All around the world. All around the world - Franny Wentzel - Thursday, May 6th, 2010 : goo [previous] :: [next] In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'.

Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography www.albert-kahn.fr/english/ Autochrome was the first industrial process for true colour photography. When the Lumière brothers launched it commercially in June 1907, it was a photograhic revolution - black and white came to life in colour. Autochromes consist of fine layers of microscopic grains of potato starch dyed either red-orange, green or violet blue combined with black carbon particles, spread over a glass plate where it is combined with a black and white photographic emulsion. Www.albertkahn.co.uk Portraits Algeria Bosnia. Where Children Sleep: A Diverse World of Homes.

WTF from the past. High school fashions, 1969. Fashion, Vintage High school fashions, 1969 i know what you’re thinking… are these more fashion snaps from coachella? No indeed! These are high school fashions in 1969 photographed by arthur shatz for life magazine. Subscribe to posts via Email arthur shatzFashionhigh school fashionlife magazinelife magazine archivessixtiesVintage Wednesday 20 April, 2011 Previous Post Next Post You Might Also Like Turned Out by Maya Thursday 17 November, 2011 glee Monday 31 May, 2010 creatures of comfort Tuesday 6 April, 2010.