A little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe | Samuel Beckett, 1957
Hamm: One day, you'll be blind, like me. You'll be sitting there, a speck in the void, in the dark,...
1950s
The Book & the Movie: The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold / Richard Matheson (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Director: Jack Arnold Writers: Richard Matheson (screenplay) Stars: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent Horror...
Instant Views [o.] Boys and Trains, 1900s-1960s
William Vanderson, Pupils of the Jews Free Boys School in Bishopsgate, London, working on a model railway made in their...
Photographers’ Self-Portraits in Mirrors | Frank Horvat / Ilse Bing / Arnold Newman / Eve Arnold / Edouard Boubat / Ed v der Elsken / Diane Arbus
Ilse Bing, Self-portrait, 1931 Edouard Boubat, Self-portrait in Mirror, Paris, 1951 D. Arbus, Self-Portrait, Pregnant, N.Y., 1945 Arnold...
Instant Views [o.] Street musicians II | Photos by Frank Horvat, Robert Doisneau, Eduard Van Der Elsken, Inge Morath, Erich Lessing, André Kertész, August Sander, 1920s-1980s
Frank Horvat, Milano, Italy, 1950 Rui Morais de Sousa, 1983 Eduard...
Book Covers | Illustrations by Edward Gorey (1951-1958)
Henry James, 'What Maisie Knew, 1954 C. P. Snow, The Masters, 1951 Marcel Proust, Pleasures And Days,...
Germany after the war | Photos by Josef Heinrich Darchinger (1952-67)
Josef Heinrich Darchinger, 1956 Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Bonn, 1955 Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Bonn, 1955 Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Bonn, 1955 . Josef Heinrich Darchinger (1925-2013) started working...
Boy with straw toys | Peter Stackpole (1956)
Peter Stackpole, A boy standing in a house he is making out of straws, 1956 A boy sitting in a...
Instant Views [o.] Swimmers in Crazy Caps | Photos by Ralph Crane, 1959
Ralph Crane, 1950s Ralph Crane, 1950s Ralph Crane Ralph Crane, 1950s . The “Crazy Caps” were invented by a Long Island...