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You see what I mean? Almost all images of Satie are him laughing or smiling. And boy does those Scottish genes come out. Cute. Photo from Hulton Archive – Stringer? Strange how Getty doesn’t credit the original photographer…bah.
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Erik Satie always seems a merry soul in his photographs! Scots/French composer, much copied for his ambient pieces.
Interestingly I’m listening to a modern take on such ambience as I write this – Space by the KLF (well really Jimmy Cauty after he left The Orb)
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The young Picasso looks like a young Viv Stanshall!
Pablo Picasso – Ricardo Canals in the studio (with Picasso in the mirror taking the photograph) (1904)
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I have a thing about piers.
Dancing and Entertainments at Cleethorpes Pier – Postcard from the Kingsway Photo Series, published in England – 1911
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Hey Hey It’s the Monkees! Victorian style?
ca. 1875, [four gentlemen posing with frames]
via the International Center of Photography, America and the Tintype Exhibition
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I enjoy that even in the midst of the slaughter he still keeps on his top hat. Gives “You can leave your hat on” a new and uber-creepy meaning!
ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of a butcher]
via the International Center of Photography, American and the Tintype Collection
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Honorable Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, 1870 by Mathew Brady. Amazing depth of field here…not seen (m)any shots using that creatively from this time.
Did you know Brady died penniless when the US government refused to buy his war photos?
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“Baron” de Stoeckl. Photo by Mathew Brady or Levin Handy, between 1855 and 1865
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Józef Piłsudski again – I think he ran Poland with that moustache alone.
Photo 1910-20 by K. Pęchersk, LOC
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Disintegration
Tis indeed a beautiful photo, and man – shame no image credit and Tin Eye calls a blank 🙁
> Beautiful photograph, disintegration and all.