Any old Pics - replicating google images, one post at a time (Part 2)

B&W Perfection :heart_eyes:

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It’s a stunner :ok_hand:

Composition great too - I’d have one on my wall :relaxed:

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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.




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Same here

David Jay of The Kon-rads 1963 by Roy Ainsworth

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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.

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Miles Davis Newport Jazz Festival 1969 photo by David Redfern

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Stevie Wonder London 1974 photo by Michael Putland

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Leonard Cohen Nashville 1968 by Tony Vaccaro

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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… :crazy_face:

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Bonnie Raitt and ‘Mississippi’ Fred McDowell Philadelphia Folk Festival 1970 by ©David Gahr

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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

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Marilyn Monroe visiting Marlon Brando on the set of Désirée, 1954, directed by Henry Koster. Photo by Dennis Stock…

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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

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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.

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Actress Melva Cornell 1929

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