Time of change: Remarkable black-and-white pictures from 1960s bring to life historical events and intimate moments from the civil rights era. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 02:36 GMT, 6 July 2013 | Updated: 04:07 GMT, 6 July 2013 On May 25, 1961, renowned documentary photographer Bruce Davidson joined a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Alabama to Mississippi - a perilous journey that resulted in a series of moving images shining a spotlight on a critical moment in American history. The powerful black-and-white photos that make up the exhibit ‘Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965,’ depict the struggle for justice and equality during a time of fearless activists, protests, marches, and police brutality. In 1962, Davidson received a Guggenheim Fellowship and continued documenting the different facets of the turbulent civil rights era, including the five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the helm.
Slice of life: Davidson accompanied a group of fearless young Freedom Riders, capturing everyday interactions between blacks and whites in the South. Welcome to America: Poignant black and white pictures show the brutal hardships endured by immigrant families in 19th century New York. City of sweat shops, shanty towns and slums is an unrecognisable New York, captured, in black and whiteShots provide a window into the squalor, deprivation and poverty of a bygone age By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 15:58 GMT, 17 June 2013 They may have headed to the 'Land of the Free' for a better life, but a set of poignant black and white pictures illustrate the brutal hardships endured by immigrant families in 19th century New York. The images captured by Jacob A. Riis provide a window into the squalor, deprivation and poverty of a bygone age. The stark photos of sweat shops, shanty towns and slums provide an image of an unrecognisable city.
Shades of the Wild West: In an astonishingly atmospheric image taken in 1887, a group of men loiter in an alley known as 'Bandit's Roost' off Mulberry Street Charity: A group of men and young boys stand outside the front entrance of the Children's Aid Society's central office, at 24 St. As these images show, there were moments of light relief. Iran in Photographs | Explore | Freer and Sackler Galleries. The art of photography was introduced to Iran more than 150 years ago. Browse this site to view hundreds of photographs taken in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, from distinguished images of the Qajar royal family and expansive views of Persepolis to glimpses of everyday in life on the streets of Tehran.
Explore the use of glass-plate negatives in early photography, research archival records, learn about collectors, and take an intimate look at life in Iran a century ago. The Archives of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contain more than 1,100 original prints and glass-plate negatives by Antonin Sevruguin and other photographers. If you have individual images or albums of photographs taken in Iran and other Near Eastern countries before 1950, please consider donating them to the Freer and Sackler Archives. Charles Fréger: “Wilder Mann” examines pagan rituals throughout Europe (PHOTOS). Charles Fréger, Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York If you thought Santa’s naughty list was intimidating, chances are you never encountered a Krampus. A beastlike creature that is part of the pagan folklore of Alpine countries including Austria, Hungary, and Slovenia, the Krampus was to play “bad cop” so Santa could spend time focusing on the better behaved children.
The Krampus is also the first beast Charles Fréger encountered during his two-year journey through 19 European countries documenting pagan festivals. The resulting series, “Wilder Mann” is on view at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York through May 18 and is also available as a monograph titled Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. Fréger initially came into contact with the costumed “Wild Man” while watching a friend’s show in Lyon, France. Charles Fréger, courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York “When I work on a project I do it quite intensely,” he began. Bert Hardy: From a woman's tears at Paddington to the gravestone-jumping street urchins of Glasgow's slums. Hardy, who died in 1995, is best known for his assignments at Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957 By Nick Enoch Published: 21:12 GMT, 28 March 2013 | Updated: 00:16 GMT, 29 March 2013 A tearful woman bids farewell to her loved one at Paddington Station in 1942; elsewhere, young boys leap over gravestones as they use a Glasgow cemetery as a post-war playground.
These striking images form part of a retrospective celebrating the work of renowned photographer Bert Hardy, who would have been 100 this year. Hardy, who died in 1995, is best known for his assignments at Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957. A woman bids farewell at Paddington Station in 1942 as a train pulls away. A group of boys from the deprived Gorbals district of Glagow play among the gravestones of the Corporation Burial Ground in 1948 A young boy blowing up a balloon in Gorbals in 1948. Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate. He died aged 82. A time of change captured on film: Fascinating photographs of a united Korea as a 500-year-old dynasty finally fell. The pictures give a glimpse of what life was like in Korea at the end of the turn of the 20th centuryThe nation, then united, was in the midst of huge upheaval with a 500-year-old dynasty about to lose powerThe decades that followed set the scene for the division into North and South Korea and the bloody Korean War By Steve Nolan Published: 01:58 GMT, 26 March 2013 | Updated: 08:08 GMT, 26 March 2013 With a young leader trying to assert his authority, mounting international tension and a growing army trying to establish itself as a military force to be reckoned with, life in Korea at the end of the 19th century would probably not sound all that alien to the inhabitants of at least one half of the former empire today.
But far from the acrimoniously divided pair of states we know now, Korea was still a vast single sovereignty. This fascinating set of pictures gives a rare glimpse into life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Korea - a time of great change for the state. Indio:Bravo// • First Battle of Bud Dajo The photo above has a... Facebook. Facebook. Facebook. Cmdr_Hadfield: Tonight's Finale: Mexican volcano... Facebook. National Geographic Found. Hung On The World | Vietnam, my beautiful homeland .. It's been a while since my last blog. There were a few obligatory blog posts that I wanted to write for the New Year but didn't feel inspired to write them so I figured people would be less than inspired to read them.
In 2013, I've also decided to switch my blog posts about my experiences traveling to more of a photoessays about the places I've visited. So I thought there is no other place more dear to my heart that I would like to share with you than Vietnam, my beautiful homeland. So be warned, this will be a long post with lots and lots of pictures of the spectacular and mesmerizing scenery I saw during my time here. My family and I left Saigon, Vietnam in 1990. I initially arrived in Hanoi by train from China. From Hanoi, I took an 8 hour overnight bus northwest to Sapa, a magical town high in the mountains known for its amazing rice terraces. In addition to the rice terraces, the town of Sapa itself also has a very mystical feel to it.
And the Valley of Love. It's enough to put you off your breakfast! Incredible close-up images of everyday foods that are often less than appetising. By Damien Gayle Published: 16:43 GMT, 11 February 2013 | Updated: 10:28 GMT, 12 February 2013 These bizarre objects are enough to put you off your corn flakes. But in fact your breakfast could well be one of these 17 foods examined up close under the microscope.
The often alien-like landscapes show some of our favourite - and least loved - foods from strawberries and chocolate to broccoli and cauliflower. Scientists have captured the images in laboratories during research into what makes our daily food. Would you eat this? Crystalline: The same process is used to picture a grain of salt in extreme close up, revealing its regular structure Rugged terrain: Instant coffee granules look to all intents and purposes like a rock formation in some area of natural beauty The real thing: This curious pitted landscape is actually an extreme close-up view of a coffee bean Hidden beauty: A broccoli floret seen at such huge magnifications looks like a tulip Which would you prefer?
Hot, hot, hot! Yum! Nathan Philps Photography. Afghan Box Camera Project. ........................Published on the front page of THE GRAPHIC July 12, 1897. Source: The British Library. In May 1879 about seventy miles east of Kabul an Irish photographer by the name of John Burke was producing some of the first photographs ever taken in Afghanistan. Burke had been travelling with the British army since 1878, initially advancing towards Kabul from present‐day Pakistan in a military engagement that would be known as the Second Anglo‐ Afghan War (there had already been a ‘First’ between 1839 and 1842 and there would in due course be a ‘Third’ in 1919). The sketch above which appeared on the front page of a British publication The Graphic shows Burke posing Yakub Khan, the then ruler of Afghanistan for a portrait; in the bottom sketch Burke is explaining the development process to the monarch.
Here’s a short video from the Getty Museum explaining the process step‐by‐step. ............................... ................................Source: The Getty Museum. Shard London Bridge Summit at dusk | 360 Panorama | 360 Panoramic Photographer London. Three Photographic Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Iran. The day the Queen drove a Tube train! Fascinating black and white images celebrate 150th anniversary of the London Underground. A British Pathe gallery shows old footage of the UndergroundThe Queen is featured opening the Victoria Line in 1969Other images show the Tube during the Blitz and being cleaned By Steve Nolan Published: 10:45 GMT, 8 January 2013 | Updated: 17:03 GMT, 9 January 2013 She may not be accustomed to the daily commute or competing with throngs of passengers to get on a packed Tube train at the end of the day.
But fascinating archive images show that Her Majesty is no stranger to the London Underground - having once driven a train herself. The incredible images of the day the Queen took the controls of a Tube train have been published to celebrate the 150th birthday of the London Underground. Scroll down for video Historic: Fascinating pictures show the Queen at the controls of a Victoria Line train as she opened the line in 1969. In charge:The Queen's visit underground in 1969 was her second time experiencing the Tube. VIDEO The day that the Queen drove the Tube!
The ghosts of Hitler's European fortress: Photographer captures images of decaying World War Two bunkers in Holland, France and Belgium. The Type L483 transmitter bunker, Spaarndam, Netherlands: Graffiti artists have given this inland fortification, just east of Haarlem, a second, less destructive chance at life as a canvas for their typographical artworks The 42-year-old, originally from Stockport, Cheshire, but now living in Amsterdam, Holland, started his bunker odyssey in 2009 and has now visited them all over Europe. 'I originally found the geometry and shape of the structures fascinating and the fact that they were just left standing alone in a farmer's field or on a beach,' he said. 'It was as if they were still on guard but nobody had told them the war is over.
Once I started photographing them it was impossible not to be moved by what the buildings symbolised and what they have witnessed.' Vital defences: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects the Atlantic Wall fortifications in France in March 1944, three months before the D-Day landings that spelled the beginning of the end of the Nazi empire in Europe. Bicycle History, Alberta and Beyond. Dark City: Eerie photos of night-time London evoke the lost beauty of a bygone era.
By Sam Webb Published: 17:33 GMT, 6 January 2013 | Updated: 19:54 GMT, 6 January 2013 These atmospheric images show buildings, alleys and streets from the rapidly-disappearing London of the 1930s - cloaked in darkness. They were collated by a pair of photographers called John Morrison and Harold Burdekin for a book called London Night, which was published in 1934.
They show the capital as it was before smog, before the Blitz changed the face of the city forever, and before the brutalist concrete monoliths of post-war rebuilding. They used newly-emerging night photography techniques to capture London's unique atmosphere. It was a city of alleys lit by dim lamps, stark contrasts of light and dark and looming, oppressive architecture. The cinematic photos are once again in the limelight after they were posted on The Library Time Machine, a blog run by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Library Service. Past: The images give historians an insight into a London that has been lost to time. Bintbattuta: Goa. Photograph taken by future King Edward VII in 1862 to prove Bethlehem existed to be displayed for the first time as part of Royal Collection exhibition. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 13:27 GMT, 17 December 2012 | Updated: 17:41 GMT, 17 December 2012 A photograph taken during a royal visit to Bethlehem to prove the biblical city's existence will be going on display among photographs and diary extracts from a royal tour 150 years ago.
Queen Victoria's eldest son King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was sent on an educational trip to the Middle East in 1862, accompanied by Francis Bedford - the first photographer on a royal tour. His previously unseen photos include a view of Bethlehem from the roof of the Church of the Nativity, said to be built on the spot where Jesus was born. Unseen: Royal photographer Francis Bedford took this picture of Bethlehem 150 years ago while on a visit with the Prince of Wales Exhibition: Francis Bedford's photo of The Shepherds' Field, where the Angel Gabriel appeared according to the Bible, taken on a royal visit to Bethlehem in 1862 Garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. In pictures: Guy Gravett's photographs of the Trucial States. Over The Hills – An Aerial Tour of Banff National Park | Paul Zizka Photography | mountain landscape and adventure photographer in Banff, Alberta | Banff photography.
By Paul Zizka on This past summer I had the pleasure to shoot aerials a few times over Banff National Park. Here is a different perspective on an area I feel blessed to call home. The three turquoise jewels: Lake Louise, Mirror Lake and Lake Agnes. Lake Minnewanka. Banff townsite and Bow River Valley. Banff Springs Hotel. Banff Centre and the Bow River. Wildlife overpass. Castle Mountain. Eisenhower Tower, Castle Mountain. Sunshine Meadows and Mt Assiniboine. Mount Edith. Mount Louis, Diamond Face. Mount Louis. Banff townsite and Cascade Mountain. Bow River meanders. Skoki Lakes. Abbot Pass and Hut below Mount Victoria. Abbot Pass and Hut (looking west towards Hungabee Mountain).
Abbot Pass and Hut (looking east towards Lake Louise). Lake Agnes and teahouse. North side of Mount Temple. Bow Lake and Num-Ti-Jah Lodge. Hanging out above the Athabasca Glacier (Jasper National Park). A “behind’the-scenes” from the Athabasca Glacier area. Athabasca Glacier crevasses (Jasper National Park). The Big Bend. Like this: Landscape Photographer of the Year competition gives viewers stunning tour of the British Isles from London cityscapes to lonely Hampshire tree. By David Mccormack Published: 23:04 GMT, 6 December 2012 | Updated: 07:51 GMT, 7 December 2012 The United Kingdom is home to a wide variety of spectacular, inspiring landscapes from salt marshes, chalk cliffs and ancient woodland, to historic villages, parklands and cityscapes.
The inspiring images below, taken by both amateur and professional landscape photographers, have been recognised as some of the very best by the judges of sixth annual Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. The stunning images have been compiled in a new book, Landscape Photographer Of The Year: Collection 6, which offers a magical tour around the British Isles through the viewfinders of some of the best landscape photographers in the world.
Stunning scenery: Derwentwater is one of the principal bodies of water in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria Sunset from a rooftop: A stunning summer evening view of south London, including the millennium wheel Working the land: Seamill in Spring, North Ayrshire. Facebook. Mountainous nature" by Saelan Wangsa.