B&W Perfection
It’s a stunner
Composition great too - I’d have one on my wall
Was in Bermuda this week on biz - stayed at the Hotel Princess, stuffed with art all along the corridors, Hockney, Banksy, Mondrian you name it e.g.
Same here
A demonstration of the cantilever principle of the Firth of Forth Bridge (1887). The photo was taken for a lecture on the construction of the bridge at the Royal Institution.
Leonard Cohen Nashville 1968 by Tony Vaccaro
Takes me back to school days as that pic was in one of our history text books - used to make me fancy a Curly-Wurly…
So much contrast in that picture
It’s a good 'un.
Before Nigerian cinema poster man there was Ethiopian portrait man
Empress Menen and Adolf Hitler - Addis Ababa - 1935
Marilyn Monroe visiting Marlon Brando on the set of Désirée, 1954, directed by Henry Koster. Photo by Dennis Stock…
Western Electric engineer George Groves cutting an electrical master.
Groves was assigned to Vitaphone, and later relocated to Hollywood
where he became one of the great sound engineers, winning 2 Oscars
I don’t think I’ve shared this here.
This is 4 Troop, No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando.
During lockdown I scanned in quite a few photos for a Commando history web site. They actually had a copy of this, but I think from the early days of home computing so at a much lower resolution and heavily cropped. The guy seemed pleased to receive any kind of new information.