Memorial Day
A 1942 photograph.
Mother’s Day
I want to say Happy Mother’s Day, but I also want to think about what mothers endure, with and without their children. This photograph by Dorothea Lange is not “the past.”
“The greatest photo in jazz”?
Uh-uh.
Frozen heads
Nailheads.
Pareidolia
A bit of an egg-roll wrapper.
Arrangement in brown and grey and white
Click for a larger backyard.
A 1950s pumpkin
I went looking for a pumpkin last night and found this photograph. The description “Alger Hiss at Princeton” baffled me. And then I remembered a little history.
Photographs by Joanna Key
Photographs by my friend Joanna Key, appearing in Midwestern Gothic.
Labor Day
Photograph of a welder, 1942.
Information overload
A postal worker carrying lots of mail, c. 1920.
A mystery of the deep
Do you know what you’re seeing here?
Zippy Dean
In today’s Zippy, Zippy walks in the rain, just like James Dean in a famous Dennis Stock photograph.
Pareidolic parking
A happy little meter.
LY 1–7116
An exchange name on the back of a photograph.
Union Iron Works
[“Union Iron Works. Decatur, Ill.”
Mailboxes of Seattle
David Peterman’s photographs of Seattle’s 346 — no, make that 347 — mailboxes.
Thomas Merton photographs
Photographs by Thomas Merton, on display in New York.
Inside General Pencil
The New York Times Magazine has a terrific feature on Jersey City’s General Pencil Company.
From Jazz Dance
If Weegee were to have made a film at a jazz dance, I think it would look much like this one.
Orange Julep art
Route 9, Plattsburgh, New York.
New glasses (once again)
A less dour photograph.
Labor Day
Orange crate work, a photograph by Jack Delano.
Orange pump art
A photograph By John Margolies.
Page 273
Webster’s Second in the New York Times morgue.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A photograph.
More Vivian Maier
Almost 500 never-before-shown Vivian Maier prints.
The Fourth
A photograph by John Vachon.
Fred Stein photography
Photographs of New York and Paris.
Pogie the porcupine
From the Animal Lending Library.
Animal Lending Library
The Animal Lending Library was a service of the California Junior Museum, which allowed children seven and older to borrow hamsters, porcupines, rabbits, rats, skunks, and squirrels.