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...
1950s
The Line / Children’s Labyrinth | Saul Steinberg, 1954
> The Line, Saul Steinberg The hallmark of Saul Steinberg’s art is the inked line, always drawn with a spare elegance...
Στο ναό της Αφαίας | Στράτης Μυριβήλης, 1958
''Εκεί πάνω στο ναό της Αφαίας τους βρήκε το σούρουπο. Τους τύλιξε μέσα στη μαγεία του χωρίς να το υποψιαστούν....
Photographers [Oo] Lola Álvarez Bravo | Mexico’s first female photographer (1907 – 1993)
Lola Alvarez Bravo, 1940 Lola Álvarez...
A Great Day in Harlem | 17 East 126th Street, New York City | Art Kane (1958)
The final curtain has fallen on the legendary 'A Great Day in Harlem' photograph. Sonny Rollins, the last surviving jazz...
The Book & the Movie: The Night of the Hunter | Davis Grubb, 1953 / Charles Laughton, 1955
Harry Powers was a convicted serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia, in 1932. He lured his victims through...
Visiting. Record shops, 1940s-1960s (II)
Lanie Lane’s Toon Shop Nina Leen, 1953 Nina Leen, 1944 Will McBride, Listening to records in a record...
The book and the movie: Les Enfants Terribles / The Holy Terrors | Jean Cocteau, 1929 / Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950
Jean Cocteau, Les enfants terribles (The Holy Terrors), 1929 “At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be...
Peri/od/ical: Jazz Journal / Fifties and Sixties Covers
Jazz journal, Sidney Bechet, September 1956 Louis...
Instant Views [o.] Backstage at the Latin Quarter | Photos by Gordon Parks, New York (1958)
. . . . In December 1958, right around Christmastime, LIFE magazine published a 200-page special issue on the glories and absurdities...