Posts tagged Vintage

Willy Ronis, La Péniche aux enfants, Paris, 1959, printed 1985 [mon paris (paris: denoël, 1985), plate 24]

Willy Ronis, La Péniche aux enfants, Paris, 1959, printed 1985 [mon paris (paris: denoël, 1985), plate 24]

Thurston Hopkins, Cosh Boy / Convicted criminal Danny Hughes, 1955

Thurston Hopkins, Cosh Boy / Convicted criminal Danny Hughes, 1955

René Burri, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1960 [Koetzle, H-M, p.199]

René Burri, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1960 [Koetzle, H-M, p.199]

“Just a few months before World War II broke out, Mydans was in California. A decade of economic crises had men like 54-year-old engineer Maurice J. Shannon searching for jobs wherever they could find them. Although the economy was recovering to the levels of the late 1920s, unemployment maintained a high, steady number throughout the following decade.” [read a chapter from carl’s book “view from the edge of a storm”] Carl Mydans, Unemployed Maurice J. Shannon, 54 year old construction engineer, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, 1939

“Just a few months before World War II broke out, Mydans was in California. A decade of economic crises had men like 54-year-old engineer Maurice J. Shannon searching for jobs wherever they could find them. Although the economy was recovering to the levels of the late 1920s, unemployment maintained a high, steady number throughout the following decade.”

[read a chapter from carl’s book “view from the edge of a storm”]

Carl Mydans, Unemployed Maurice J. Shannon, 54 year old construction engineer, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, 1939

Max Yavno, The Leg, Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), 1949 [The Photography of Max Yavno, 1981, pl. 24]

Max Yavno, The Leg, Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), 1949

[The Photography of Max Yavno, 1981, pl. 24]

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter XXI (quoted from here; an interesting article here) Minor White, Devil’s Slide, San Mateo County, California, 1948  [The Eye That Shapes, p. 120]

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter XXI

(quoted from here; an interesting article here)

Minor White, Devil’s Slide, San Mateo County, California, 1948 

[The Eye That Shapes, p. 120]