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Photo gallery - The Home Front: 4×5 Kodachromes from the US Office of War Information

iso200 — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Pavel's selected a number of large-format (mostly 4x5) Kodachrome transparencies that were taken for the US Office of War Information from the online collection at shorpy - repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

See the whole thing at http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/4x5-kodachromes/

The Home Front: 4×5 Kodachromes from the US Office of War Information is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Photo gallery - Historic New York street scenes, discovered after nearly 50 years

iso200 — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:10:09 +0000

Interesting collection of black and white urban photos of New York by talented amateur photographer Frank Oscar Larson.

See the whole thing at http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47429655#.T7Vz0Z9Yu1v

Historic New York street scenes, discovered after nearly 50 years is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Photo gallery - Lewis Hine: The child labour photos that shamed America

iso200 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:43:39 +0000

Alison Nordstrom, senior curator of photographs of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, argues that Lewis Hine - perhaps best known for his iconic photos of the construction of the Empire State building in Manhattan, was the father of the documentary movement - long before 'documentary' was defined.

he teaches us that photographs can be simultaneously factual and emotional, and that we shouldn't be separating those pieces

See the whole thing at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17673213

Lewis Hine: The child labour photos that shamed America is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Googie Style Architecture – Back to the Future

iso200 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:32:27 +0000

Googie architecture emerged in the US in the 50s, built on the spread of suburban America and the massive increase in car ownership that followed WWII. A space age, modern style of architecture that symbolised the excitement, energy and prosperity of 1950s America emerged as part of an effort to attract consumers as they drove by. Douglas Haskell, editor of ‘House and Home’ magazine, announced this new style as "Modern Architecture Uninhibited... an art in which anything and everything goes – so long as it’s modern".

See the whole thing at http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/2012/02/googie-style-back-to-future.html

Googie Style Architecture – Back to the Future is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Photo gallery - Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties

iso200 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:01:36 +0000

Great retrospective on what hihg-street retailing used to look like in London in the 60s.

See the whole thing at http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/2011/06/inside-oxford-street-hmv-istore-in.html

Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Photo gallery - Mies van der Rohe: Architect of the Modern World – LIFE

iso200 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:26:25 +0000

Photos from a 1957 LIFE Magazine article on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969), perhaps the most delicate modernist architect of all. This is a photo of Illinois Tech's Crow Hall, a 220 foot long open building with no internal supporting structures.

See the whole thing at http://life.time.com/culture/architect-mies-van-der-rohe-and-the-poetry-of-purpose/#1

Mies van der Rohe: Architect of the Modern World – LIFE is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Photo gallery - Street scenes of 19th-century Newcastle – in pictures

iso200 — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:58:38 +0000

Aaron Guy found these early glass negatives showing everyday 19th-century street scenes from Newcastle and the North East.

See the whole thing at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2012/mar/29/19th-centrury-newcastle-in-pictures

Street scenes of 19th-century Newcastle – in pictures is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Photo gallery - Streets of London – photos from 1976-1978

iso200 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:49:16 +0000

See the whole thing at http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/2011/05/streets-of-london-1976-1978.html

Streets of London – photos from 1976-1978 is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Photo gallery - BBC News – In pictures: Russian Empire in colour photos

iso200 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:08:18 +0000

Photos by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, using a three colour/three exposure process he invented, which used red, blue and green filters.

See the whole thing at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17449958

BBC News – In pictures: Russian Empire in colour photos is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.

Photo gallery - In pictures: Auschwitz-Birkenau, then and now

iso200 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:38:23 +0000

Pawel Sawicki's photos merge pictures of Jews being processed in Auschwitz-Birkenau that were taken by the SS in 1944 with photos from the same spots and perspectives taken recently - the juxtaposition is very successful, with the jarring lack of people in the new photos creating a real sense of emptiness.

See the whole thing at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17095519

In pictures: Auschwitz-Birkenau, then and now is a post from iso200 - photography, articles and photo links from Dave Fitch.