Light And Shadow

Appreciating all kinds of black and white imagery.

[screengoddess]

Sophia Loren 1966

[thecountesstold]

"I have encountered something that, until recently, I did not believe existed in the world—something that seems to me more valuable and more shattering than the strongest sensation..."

GERTRUDE WELCKER as Countess Told

DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER 1922 | dir. Fritz Lang

[collinskitty]

"The other places are like kindergardens compared with this. It smells so incredibly evil! I didn't think such a place existed except in my own imagination."

 The Shanghai Gesture (1941) | Director : Josef von Sternberg.

[nowebsite]

[thenewloverofbeauty]

[silverscreen-andfashion]

PATRICIA MORISON in a studio glamour portrait, 1943

[summertimenoir]

Stella Dallas (1937) - dir. King Vidor

[ladybegood]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Eve Arnold, 1955

[classichollywoodstuff]

Vivien Leigh and C. Aubrey Smith - Waterloo Bridge 1940

[pastart]

Cydney Rose (2025)

[kitsunetsuki-deactivated2026051]

Irving Penn - Stockings by Kayser (Vogue 1965)

[yama-bato]

Robert Blomfield

[blondebrainpowered]

Fathers at Blaenrhondda, South Wales, taking their babies out for some fresh air. They're using a siôl fagu (a special Welsh woolen blanket) to keep their children cozy whilst on the move. March 5, 1937

Photo credit: Fox Photos/Getty

[ronmerchant]

The bust used for close-ups in KING KONG (1933)

[20thcenturystarlet]

woman feeding a sea lion on a California pier. c. 1930s

[naldibutnice]

Gloria Swanson by G. L. Manuel Frères Studio, 1925

[ca-lifeshots]

San Diego, California 2026