faces from the past

A tendresse of old portraits. “Every portrait is an example of: I once existed—and looked like this.” (Berger, Ways of Seeing)

[history-of-fashion]

1524 Anonymous artist - Portrait of a man aged sixty-two

(National Gallery, Prague)

[facesofold]

Barthel Beham (1502–40). Wolfgang Jörger. Oil on wood, 1524.

[smsomah]

Siberia, Russia, 1901. Photographer: Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937

[randomvintageeurope]

[facesofold]

James McBey (1883–1959). Portrait of Marguerite McBey in a Striped Robe. Oil on canvas, 1932.

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Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Bust of a Man. Conté crayon on paper.

[random-brushstrokes]

T.C. Steele - Portrait Study (1884)

[facesofold]

Nina Leen (d. 1995) in Berlin, 1950.

[artistandstudio]

Ernest Fosbery, Self-portrait, 1911. National Gallery of Canada 

[catsofyore]

Idea: remake 'Léon: The Professional' but with kittens. Ca. 1917 - 1918. Source.

[facesofold]

Title: S.S. Jupiter Description: (American Freighter, 1917). Later S.S. Democracy and USS Democracy (ID # 2215) J.E. Hall, a member of Jupiter's Naval armed guard, with cats Mouse and Snow, circa 1917-1918. Note lap-strake construction lifeboat in the background. Donation of Fred Broughton, 1988. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 102930

[salantami]

Agda Holst (Swedish, 1886–1976), Self-portrait, 1924.

[inthedarktrees]

Journalist Katharine Whitehorn reading in London’s Hyde Park

Bert Hardy, “Loneliness in London,” Picture Post, 1956

[through-a-historic-lens]

Mrs. Bad Gun. 1879. Cheyenne.

[facesofold]

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). Firelight. Graphite on paper, c. 1875.

[dumbbitchhour]

Walter Sickert, Aubrey Beardsley, 1894 x

[wehadfacesthen]

42nd Street, New York, 1929, photo by Walker Evans

[stanestreet]

Phyllis Dodd (1899–1995). Portrait of Eric Ravilious. Oil on board, 1929.

[stanestreet]

Portrait photograph by Kaudern, Stockholm, c. 1890–1900.