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In the early 1980s, American photographer Christine Osinski documented the life of the inhabitants of the New York district of Staten Island.
There’s a ton more and they’re all incredible! Best expressions from kids!
That top kid is straight out of Goonies and the dancing kid is like a Lynchian metaphor for my love life.
‘Hello Scrumpet!’
Said 22 year old photographer and my mate Kyle McBurnie.
Then the seal came over and bit him.
A general view of the Vista Hermosa prison. On the left is a mural with the chief of the prison, inmate Wilmer Brizuela. The counterintuitive system of inmate run prisons has proved to be a success. I love that Brizuela threw a 2000 head party for his daughter’s 15th birthday.
Tons more photos by Sebastián Liste at Time
And in 1951, there was light on Arsenal’s pitch
The match finished Arsenal 3-2 Glasgow Rangers. There were 62,000 in attendance, and the date was October 17, 1951. If it looks both surreal and completely normal, that’s because there are two senses of novelty at play, for the crowd and for a fan in 2013. At the time, this was only the second match at Highbury that Arsenal played under floodlights. The scene is complete film noir, which - after a little digging - revealed that there’s a film from a 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium Mystery. This match also confirmed a long-standing friendly relationship between Rangers and Arsenal. No camera crews. No advertisements. Just fans and football.
I love it when old photographs are so amazing that they look like bad computer graphics.
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Horse races and traditional Indian games held near Manderson, SD to commemorate the Anniversary of the Little Big Horn and the defeat of General Custer.
Photo: Aaron Huey
Check out more of Aaron Huey’s visit to Pine Ridge
The evening light illuminates a toy shark on top of a car, early on May 27.
Photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Eli Weinberg
Nelson Mandela portrait wearing traditional beads and a bed spread.
Hiding out from the police during his period as the “black pimpernel,” 1961
I heard that Mandela used heaps of disguises during this time, two favourites being a milkman and a chauffeur. Badass. I think I’d have been better served learning from him than the Scarlet Pimpernel, whose TV movie practically raised me in the late eighties. There’s not nearly enough Pimpernels today. If I was going to be a Pimpernel today, what colour would I be, maybe flannelette? Or maybe I’d be the first Shrimpernel.
This is exactly the sort of thing I love.
Modernist Los Angeles brought to life in online exhibition. A bunch of Angelino history professors have gone through the 70,000 photos in the archive of a local electrical firm, telling the story of twentieth century LA.
These shots were taken by photographers employed by Southern California Edison, LA’s main electrical power suppler during the 20th century, to promote its work in electrifying the city.
The photographers were given a fairly bald brief, to document both domestic and commercial electricity use, as well as local electrical production. However, we think these archival shots, as presented by profs Deverell and Hise, look more like some unworldly collaboration between Ed Ruscha, Raymond Chandler and Bernd and Hilla Becher, than your usual corporate promotional brochure.
It’s called Form and Landscape, I like the Text and the Scale sections.
Johann Rashid
I Stand Close / Not So Close, 2013
archival print, framed, 77.5 x 108cm
Fever in the Deep, 2013
archival print
77.5 x 108cm
Come down to Joey’s show How to disappear / How to reappear
TODAY at Neospace, 3PM kids!
Bettie Page
Photo by Irving Klaw
I’ve found a very strange interview with Bettie, transcribed from ‘Nashville Citysearch’s Bettie Page Live Chat’, held September 23, 1998.
There’s some left field questions that lead to even more bizarre answers
Bruno asks: did you travel outside of USA Bettie?
Bettie Page: I like to travel. I regret that I never got to Paris. In October 1978, I had saved money and wanted to go to Hawaii – to see the islands. People told me that Paris would have been my style of living.
I did live in Haiti – for 4 months. I was ready to go to work as the secretary to the ambassador to the US, but they were angry because the US president wouldn’t give them a loan – they started rioting and talked of killing all Americans. I left. But I like the Haitian people. I lost all of my prejudice against black people – growing up in the South, you know. When I was 13, I would collect photos of baseball stars – I had a crush on one of the Nashville Vols, in particular. These two black girls grabbed my baseball cards and shoved me to the ground. So I didn’t feel good about them, but Haiti changed me. I fell in love with a Haitian man there, but found that his wife was about to have a baby on the other end of the island!
Stereo3d asks: Do you think Lucy Lawless of TV’s Xena patterns her look after you?
Bettie Page: She is one of my favorites. To be as big as she is, when she can do flips, she is something. No other woman can do what she does. I have heard she patterned her look after me. But she doesn’t have long hair like I have. I like that show.
Bruno asks: Did you see “Titanic”?
Bettie Page: I thought it was fascinating. Those scenes were so real. The closing scenes with that couple so much in love …that is love. If ever there was an example of true love, that is it.
Hannah asks: Have you seen all the questions on this message board? Do they make you feel good — that so many people still care for you?
Bettie Page: It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me… that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration. You would think they never think about 50′s pinup models. I have had 11 songs written about me – the best is by a song by BR-549 from my hometown, Nashville – called “Bettie, Bettie.” I wonder what he means by, “if I had known you-I would have been a better man,” in the lyrics? I once was in love with a man named Carlos from Peru. He showed me a picture of a blond woman and a little boy. He told me it was his sister. One night I had a cold — we were making love — his sister was his wife. this night, she knocked on the door and accused me of being a homewrecker. I told her I did not know he was married, but as I was going down the stairs, she was calling me these names and felt like a snake…I didn’t have anything to do with him after that.
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