This article contains photos from the present, but they are worthy of a peek.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24802846

It's about Gloucester City's abandoned ground. The article isn't really worth reading, but the four pictures are quite something. Amazing what the place looks like after just 6 years.

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/lee-miller-in-hitlers-bathtub/


....the gorgeous model,socialite and superb photographer (war and vogue) and trailblazer Lee Miller pictured in the bathtub in Hitlers Munich apartment, taken by another photographer David Scherman.

they had both visited Dachau on 30 April 1945 and then entered Munich with the American 45th (same day as Hitlers suicide), stumbled on a run down apartment block and found Hitler's apartment...they stayed for 3 days.

Some think the picture of Hitler on the bath was taken from another room and used for effect.. although he was such an egotist he may very well have placed it there.

...she led an amazing life,....think if I could come back it would be as someone like her.. or Robert Capa or Steichen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Miller

and the same Lee Miller photographed by Edward Steichen in 1928.....

and another Steichen from 1922...

"Sunday papers West 86th Street New York"

brilliant.

http://twentytwowords.com/2013/11/06/realistically-colorized-historical-photos-make-the-past-seem-incredibly-real-36-pictures/

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More pics at https://twitter.com/History_Pics/media

oh no..sorry...just googled it...Osama!!!..yikes.

...amazing...just looks like a normal happy kid.....jeez..

who knows what the world has in store for some people!!!!

"Marines Inch Forward Against Suicidal Resistance on Peleliu Island" taken by John P. Smith

September /October 1944

..a Grummen F6F Wildcat takes off from the deck of the USS Lexington......November 1943.....by Steichen..

At this time Steichen was head of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit and brought his artistic genius to bear by instructing those who he recruited thus...

"don't photograph the war; photograph the man, the little guy; the struggle, the heartaches, plus the dreams of this guy. Photograph the sailor"

Poppydog. 10 Nov 13 23:07
1971 Falun, Sweden - 14yo boy in green jumper and flares (second from the right)


Check the sign in the shop window the initials are a anagram of New York Fire Department....spooky.

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old pic from the North-East, 'Ready to launch'

"Paris" 1959 Saul Leiter



Saul Leiter started shooting color and black-and-white street photography in New York in the 1940s.

He had no formal training in photography, but the genius of his early work was quickly acknowledged by Edward Steichen, who included Leiter in two important MoMA shows in the 1950s.

MoMA’s 1957 conference “Experimental Photography in Color” featured 20 color photographs by Leiter.

After that, however, Leiter's personal color photography was, for the most part, not shared with the public. He became better-known as a successful fashion photographer in the 1950s and 60s. All the while, Leiter continued to stroll the streets wherever he was (mostly New York and Paris), making photographs for his own pleasure. He printed some of his black-and-white street photos, but kept most of his color slides tucked away in boxes. It was only in the 1990s that he began to look back at that remarkable color work and start to make prints.

His sense of color and densely compressed urban life represents a truly unique vision of those times.

Taxi, New York 1957. Saul Leiter

France Normandy Omaha Beach, the first wave of American troops land at dawn. June 6th 1944 © Magnum Photos/Robert Capa



Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment rush toward the shelter of amphibious tanks at the water’s edge of Easy Red sector, Omaha Beach, on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

These tow are taken by the legendary Robert Capa..one of the greatest ever...and are part of what came to be known as "The Magnificent Eleven".

Here is the story...

In the early hours of 6 June 1944, Robert Capa boarded a landing craft with members of the US Infantry. It was the first day of Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day, and more than 160,000 Allied troops were about to invade occupied France. This was to be the largest amphibious invasion in military history.

Capa, a charismatic 30-year-old Hungarian, was an experienced and respected photojournalist. He had previously been on assignment during both the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War, and had photographed the war in Italy in 1943. Now he faced one of the most dangerous assignments of his career: photographing on the front line as the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy.

Capa was covering the war for Life magazine and had chosen to land with the first wave of troops. After leaving England on a troop ship, he transferred to a landing craft ten miles from the French coast. He was carrying two Contax II 35mm cameras, both fitted with 50mm lenses, and several rolls of film.

As the craft neared the beach codenamed Omaha, the front of the boat was lowered and Capa got his first view of the shore. He had happy memories of the times he had previously spent socialising in France, but this day was very different.

‘My beautiful France looked sordid and uninviting, and a German machine gun, spitting bullets around the barge, fully spoiled my return,’ Capa vividly wrote in his 1947 memoir Slightly out of Focus. ‘The men from my barge waded in the water. Waist-deep, with rifles ready to shoot, with the invasion obstacles and the smoking beach in the background – this was good enough for the photographer.

‘I paused a moment on the gangplank to take my first real picture of the invasion. The boatswain, who was in an understandable hurry to get the hell out of there, mistook my picture-taking attitude for explicable hesitation, and helped me make up my mind with a well-aimed kick in the rear. The water was cold, and the beach still more than 100 yards away. The bullets tore holes in the water around me, and I made for the nearest steel obstacle.’

Of all the assignments Capa had carried out, this was the most terrifying. He had landed on a particularly heavily defended part of the coast and as he stood in the water, feeling that he could die at any moment, he felt ‘a new kind of fear shaking my body from toe to hair, and twisting my face.’

Hundreds of American soldiers were killed in the attack and many of the dead lay in the shallow water around him. Despite the danger, Capa continued photographing for more than an hour and a half and managed to shoot 106 frames.

After completing his task of photographing the landings, Capa’s survival instincts took over. Seeing another craft approaching the beach, he fled towards it. After he was hoisted aboard, the vessel took a direct hit from a German shell and several men on board were killed. Capa survived and transferred to a troop ship for the return journey to England.

On arriving in Weymouth, Dorset, Capa put the four rolls of 35mm film in a courier’s pouch together with several 120mm rolls that he had shot before the invasion. He also included a note to John Morris, Life’s London office picture editor, that stated, ‘John – all the action’s in the 35mm.’ With his films safely on their way, Capa boarded the first boat returning to France.

When the courier arrived at the Life office, Morris urged his staff to develop the films quickly in order to meet the ublication deadline. They were given to 15-year-old darkroom assistant Dennis Banks to develop.

The incident that followed has become as famous as Capa’s images. A few minutes later, Banks returned to Morris’s office in tears, saying, ‘They’re ruined! Capa’s films are all ruined!’ In the rush to process and dry the films, Banks had placed them in a wooden drying cabinet and closed the doors. The heat had been so intense that the emulsion had melted and all that was left, as Morris discovered as he examined the films, was ‘a brown sludge in frame after frame’.

On the last film, however, 11 partially damaged frames had survived and Morris asked for prints of all of them. They were approved by the censor’s office and dispatched just in time for the deadline. Although shot in extreme circumstances and in poor light, the images clearly revealed the American soldiers wading through the waters and taking cover as they advanced towards the German defences. The most famous image singled out one soldier up to his neck in seawater as he made his way towards the beach.

The soldier has been identified, at different times, as Edward K Regan and Alphonse Joseph Arsenault, who were both involved in the invasion. The most likely candidate, however, is Huston Riley, who lived through the battle.

A selection of the surviving images appeared over seven pages of the 19 June 1944 issue of Life. The text explained that these pictures showed ‘how violent the battle was and how strong the German defences’ and blamed the fact that the images were ‘slightly out of focus’ on Capa’s hands shaking as he took them.

On 8 June, Capa returned to Omaha beach to photograph the aftermath of the invasion after the Allies had secured the area. These more considered pictures tell their own grim story of death and burial. However, the surviving D-Day pictures are the ones that most effectively capture the reality of combat from the troops’ perspective and are recognised, in John Morris’s words, as ‘among the most dramatic battlefield photos ever taken’.

Machu Picchu now http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/machu-picchu-llama-photobomb-photo_n_2582268.html


and then http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14057296

Christine Keeler in the 60's

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Christine Keeler now

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.....and 2 photos from the very start of her career.

Taken more than a decade earlier in 1950 at Griffith Park, LA by Ed Clark.

She had just been signed by Fox and Life magazine had sent Clark to shoot her.

But when the editors saw Clark's shots they sent a telegram asking ....

"Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?"

...within a few years she was one of the biggest stars in the world.