#grey villet

[inthedarktrees]

“Tireless, Talky Teen-agers Keep Telephone Lines Toiling”

Grey Villet, Life, Apr 2, 1956

[henk-heijmans]

Schoolkids learning firearm safety in rural Indiana, 1956 - by Grey Villet (1927 - 2000), American

[davidhudson]

Fidel Castro, August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016.

Photo by Grey Villet.

[sonimage1965]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of young Emmett Till, who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, addresses a crowd of 15,000 in Harlem later that year.

In her autobiography Death of Innocence: The Story Of The Hate Crime That Changed America, Till-Mobley wrote:

It is not that I dwell on the past. But the past shapes the way we are in the present and the way we will become what we are destined to become. It is only because I have finally understood the past, accepted it, embraced it, that I can fully live in the moment. And hardly a moment goes by when I don’t think about Emmett, and the lessons a son can teach a mother.

Photo: Grey Villet via Life magazine Instagram

[freddie-my-love]

Fred Astaire rehearsing for Astaire Time, photographed by Grey Villet, 1960

[acervorevolucionario]

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz por Grey Villet.

Havana, Cuba, 1959 / Foto: Grey Villet

[luzfosca]

Grey Villet. Pigeon man. A suicide's view of 5th avenue was Grey Villet's first image for LIFE magazine in 1954. From Grey Villet Photography