B & W PHOTOGRAPHY

My name is Liv, 17 years old from Australia. I mostly just post photos from history, but there is the odd modern one here and there :)

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Marilyn Monroe in Korea.

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Edouard Boubat  Castille , 1957

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Plank Piece, 1973 Charles Ray

“Ray was part of a wave of artists during the 1970s who addressed sculpture as an activity rather than as an object. In the iconic two-part photographic work Plank Piece the artist documents the use of his own body as the sculptural component. The static photograph belies the performative nature of the activity presented. Contrived through a complex balance between weight and gravity the artist suspended his body using only a plank of wood, creating a minimal, graphic image that is at once humorous and unsettling.”

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A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to a co-worker after he accidentally touched a high voltage wire (1967).

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Miss Fanny Haven Wickes, Newport, Rhode Island, 1924 (The Blue Sky) by Edward Steichen

Printed by George Tice 1984-1986

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A photographer in West Berlin kicks a policeman standing across the border in East Berlin during demonstrations at Checkpoint Charlie, 13 August 1986 -

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Today marks 70 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945. 

About 140,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the world’s first nuclear attack, including those who survived the bombing itself but died soon afterward due to severe radiation exposure.

The bomb’s destructive power was unprecedented, incinerating buildings and people. It left lifelong physical and emotional scars on survivors.

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Soviet tank crewmen firing American lend-lease Thompson guns, WW2

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Oskar Schlemmer “Schattenspiel” 1926

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Caitlin Stasey

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Police directing traffic before traffic lights installed.

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