Trope Americana

A Gosh Wow // Cheap Thrills // No Holds Barred Take On The American Dream. IG:@aidanbrezonick

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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart with their son Stephen, 1955

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Lewiston ID, RA Clayton

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Kid at Fritz’s Lanes Lehighton, Pennsylvania Follow me on Instagram: American Squares

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17-year old Lauren Bacall in a 1942 fashion photo by Jerry Plucer Sarna for Harper’s Bazaar

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French artist/writer/filmmaker Jean Cocteau and his lover actor Jean Marais, Paris, 1939, photo by Cecil Beaton

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James Dean in New York, photo by Dennis Stock, 1954

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Valentina Tereshkova flew into space on this day, June 16, 1963

She was the first woman cosmonaut ever.

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[life]

From the Aug. 1, 1955 SPEAKING OF PICTURES — HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE. According to LIFE, “The things a man will do to woo a woman are just about unlimited. But nobody is known to have tried courtship by acrobatics before Movie Actor Russ Tamblyn began to woo 17-year-old Venetia Stevenson in Hollywood. Russ, who was 1952 collegiate state tumbling champion and did acrobatic dancing in the film ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,’ is bombarded with requests to do somersaults and hand-stands. To oblige the public and amuse his girl, whom he dates on a steady basis, Russ demonstrates here the feelings of an acrobat head-over-heels in love.” (Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #tbt

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Faculty Meeting

The infinitely pleasing lips, the folks from California singing through the crowd, the crowd full of associate deans full of precursors, pleasures of the white name tag string around the neck, the neck close to our hearts, close to our vibrating phones, the infinitely pleasing lips of the candy wrapper being unwrapped between three fingers explaining binaries, shifting lights shimmering veils, graphic designers reaching through screens grasping oxygen machines in suburban churches singing 100-year-old hymns to keyboard trills and creationist rhetoric from the 80s

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“playing in the waves” / Rio de Janeiro / Brasil / ©julialametta

no other city I know gives me the opportunity to combine my beloved photo-subjects. street photography and water. the beaches are urban centers and used in summer - and wintertime. rio is amazing.

http://julialametta.tumblr.com

[life]

Legendary dancer, actor, singer, Gene Kelly was born 105 years ago today on August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, PA. He is pictured here in an unpublished image from 1949 by another legend, LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #GeneKelly #OnThisDay

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Yearning for a life of freedom, the Joneses contemplate jumping the border into Canada.

[rogerwilkerson]

https://www.mixcloud.com/SuburbanHiFi/mai-tai-transmissions-episode-fifteen/

Hey I know those people!  Check out John’s latest episode of Mai Tai Transmissions over on Mixcloud!

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Two sailors exhausted from celebrating the end of World War II, 1945.

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Party like 1945!

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Illustrations for On a Small Greek Isle, Drawing to Discover and Remember By ALEXANDER CHEE

The New York Times Travel section

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久しぶりにニューヨーク・タイムズの仕事です。

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boat house | marina del rey, california

ig: phdonohue