The Angel of History

This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. - Walter Benjamin

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Vintage birthday card, 1980

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“Female hands” Anna Penagini- Emilio Sommariva, 1935

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“Female hands” Anna Penagini-Emilio Sommariva, 1935

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USA. Washington, D.C. August 28, 1963. The March on Washington.

Leonard Freed

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Bob Pepper - 1969

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That shirt.

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A woman riding an ostrich in South Africa, August 1942.

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Andre Durenceau poster for the New York World's Fair, 1939

(via the wonderful Imaginary Cities)

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A Fine & Imposing Decorative Full Armour with Grotesque Visor

Out of the Ordinary

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He doesn't seem totally thrilled about the situation. 

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Mick Jagger, circa 1969

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Traditional Azorean capote-e-capelo. Ca. 1910

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Ormond Gigli (B. 1925) Girls in the Windows, New York City, 1960

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Hungarian poster for Fahrenheit 451, 1969, designed by György Kemény.

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Fashion Plates and Fashion Satire 

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Stanley Kubrick's Photos of New York Life in the 40's

(via Metafilter)

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Good Eyes Are Your Protection, 1917