All the things we used to do

Classic photography, quotes and more windows into the past

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Saint Petersburg, 1992, a gelatin silver print from “City of Shadows,” Alexey Titarenko 

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Hitchcock knows its Christmas, be like Hitchcock. 

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Don McCullin: MacThe Elephant Festival, Sonepur Mela, India, 1978 

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Irving Penn      Ingmar Bergman, Stockholm      1964

“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.” Ingmar Bergman, 1978

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Man Ray: Markiza Casati 1922

Eyes open

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David Lynch  and Isabella R. by Helmut Newton 

When Helmut Newton was around 8 years old his brother began showing him the 'gutter' of Berlin, a red light district which was inhabited by prostitutes like the 'Red Erna', who wore thigh length boots and carried a whip. Helmut remembers, "my eyes were poppin' out of my head."  At 12 he saved his money to purchase his first camera at a "five-and-dime"

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Selections of Albert Camus’ love letters, written in late 1959, from a rare BBC documentary of Camus’ life. Music by Erik Satie.

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Untitled, (Gondolas), Venice, 2001 by Alexey Titarenko, Russian photographer and artist.

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Robert Doisneau, Paris

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Jack Nicholson 

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Be Loud 

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Woman with Long Hair - Man ray 1929

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This photo was shot by Man Ray soon after his break-up with his assistant and lover, Lee Miller. Ray created multiple works in an attempt to "break her up" as a revenge on a lover who left him. The model is in fact not a real woman but a fashion mannequin with glass bead tears on the cheeks 

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Lee Miller by Man Ray, Paris 1929