Memorial Day
Ashland, Maine, May 1943.
Laden with Hula Hoops
A woman laden with Hula Hoops.
Recently updated
The Times now has a photograph that is unmistakably of Big Joe Turner.
Which Joe Turner?
A photograph in the New York Times: of the singer Big Joe Turner, or of the pianist Joe Turner?
Billie Holiday, 1957
Photographs of Billie Holiday by Jerry Dantzic, taken during Holiday’s week-long engagement at the Sugar Hill nightclub in Newark, New Jersey, April 1957.
Grey day with squirrel
I thought of lines from William Carlos Williams: “The descent beckons / as the ascent beckoned.” This squirrel was taking its time about heeding the beck.
John Glenn (1921–2016)
A Life photograph.
Stale candy
“Penny Candy.” Photograph by Eliot Elisofon.
A tribute in dubious taste
I have to wonder what it means to ”celebrate” a photograph that documents human suffering by turning that photograph into an opportunity to market high-end stationery supplies.
Orange light art
[“As seen in east-central Illinois.”
Twistee Treat
This soft-serve stand closed in 2014.
Labor Day
A supermarket cashier and a wide variety of cigarettes.
Harlem 1958 interactive
From the New York Daily News, an interactive version of Art Kane’s famed photograph Harlem 1958 .
Sam Ervin, Mongol user
Watergate-era photographs.
Planet Melba
If Bob Ross were here, he’d call it a “happy little planet.”
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
I think of Armstrong as a bodhisattva showing us all the way to enlightenment.
The Fourth
A 1956 photograph of a refugee child pledging allegiance.
Bill Cunningham (1929–2016)
“Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.”
“Ordinary, thrown-away things”
Joel Meyerowitz on photographing objects in the painter Giorgio Morandi’s studio.
Good advice
“I like to tell people that if you wait until you’re completely qualified for something, maybe it’s too late.”
Planter
Outside a North End restaurant.
Speed v. accuracy
A fortune cookie, revised.
Thirsty doll
A 1950 photograph.
The shadow of an angry Bert
It’s just the shadow of a lamp on paneling. But when I noticed it the other day, it looked like the shadow of an angry Bert.
MLK
A 1958 photograph.
The life of Vivian Maier
New details from the life of the photographer Vivian Maier.
Younger, sepia
Why are you seeing this photograph? Because Fresca has suggested to her readers that they post baby pictures.
Veterans Day
A photograph from 1942: one small moment of daily routine in a dark time.
Labor Day
A Jack Delano photograph.
Tidy?
Take that, Marie Kondo.