Please consider pre-ordering a copy of my forthcoming book, The Colour of Time - also available on Amazon US and other websites. Your support would be much appreciated! Thank you.
Edit; the book consists of 200 black and white photographs colorized by me, each accompanied by captions written by historian and bestselling author Dan Jones, covering a 100 years of world history.
US Version as linked above.
Thanks for your work
This is the first photo I restored from a series taken by Alberto Henschel in Brazil before the slavery-abolition law in 1888. The original caption only says "Cafuza". Nothing else is known about this woman neither about when or where the photo was taken. "Cafuzo is a racial term used in the Casta caste class system of the Spanish and Portuguese empires to identify individuals in the Americas who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry.” Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery. By the time it was abolished after years of campaigning by Emperor Pedro II, in 1888, an estimated four million slaves had been imported from Africa to Brazil, 40% of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas. (source: wiki)
These will not be sold as prints but I'll make the whole collection available in high-resolution (for free) on my website in case you want to use it for educational purposes.
Just pre-ordered it. Your work is amazing and it's just a little pay back for the free stuff you post on Reddit.
I recently got this book by Pete Souza, Obama's staff photographer. Opened it up to to about the middle of the book to the pictures of Obama coaching his daughter's basketball team when the actual coach couldn't make it to the game. Actually brought tears of regret to my eyes. I had to close the book.
My book in collaboration with historian Dan Jones will be out in just a few weeks, so please consider pre-ordering it if you can. That's the best way to support my work. Thank you!
Building the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1881.
The Statue of Liberty is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, a national park tourism destination, and is a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. (Wiki)
"When the statue was first erected its copper exterior caught the sunlight, but within a couple of decades the metal had oxidized and Libertas had adopted her now familiar shade of green." - READ MORE IN MY BOOK "THE COLOUR OF TIME", available on Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble and at the nearest bookshop!
Building the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1881.
The Statue of Liberty is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, a national park tourism destination, and is a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. (Wiki)
"When the statue was first erected its copper exterior caught the sunlight, but within a couple of decades the metal had oxidized and Libertas had adopted her now familiar shade of green." - READ MORE IN MY BOOK "THE COLOUR OF TIME", available on Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble and at the nearest bookshop!
It is sweet, but it's not the only one. This is from a collection of historic photographs of same sex couples. You can buy the book here
For those who dont know, this is from a beautiful book called "Loving". It is full of pictures like this.
There's an amazing book called <em>Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America</em> that documents the culture surrounding lynching. Along with photographic evidence, it includes images of the variety of lynching memorabilia and souvenirs that made their way across the US. Be forewarned, it's somewhat graphic. One of the images that stuck with me was a town square full of people (including children) posing with the corpse of a man who'd been lynched. The spectators were grinning ear-to-ear as they crowded in to get next to the body. I'm betting there's people in that crowd that are alive today.
I remember the creators did a lot of media interviews when the book was released, so if you Google it, you should be able to find plenty of informative materials and articles relating to the project, and you can visit their website here.
This photo is from my book, The Colour of Time.
On this day in 1905 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis with Alfred Kleiner, Professor of Experimental Physics, serving as pro-forma advisor. As a result, Einstein was awarded a PhD by the University of Zürich, with his dissertation "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions".
In that same year, which has been called Einstein's annus mirabilis (miracle year), he published four groundbreaking papers, on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy, which were to bring him to the notice of the academic world, at the age of 26.
Beyond the Dark Veil. It’s excellent — it was compiled by Jack Mord, who runs Thanatos.net, by far the best archive of postmortem images.
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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces. During World War II, black Americans in many U.S. states were still subject to the Jim Crow laws and the American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government. The Tuskegee Airmen were subjected to discrimination, both within and outside the army. Contrary to negative predictions from some quarters, they were some of the best pilots in the U.S. Army Air Forces due to a combination of pre-war experience and the personal drive of those accepted for training.
The Tuskegee Airmen were credited by higher commands with the following accomplishments:
Source: Wiki.
Is this the book your Aunt got?
Obama: An Intimate Portrait it is a book by the White House photographer at the time. It is a big picture book of the Obamas.
One of my favorite books of photos is "The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia"...
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Building the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1881.
The Statue of Liberty is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, a national park tourism destination, and is a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. (Wiki)
"When the statue was first erected its copper exterior caught the sunlight, but within a couple of decades the metal had oxidized and Libertas had adopted her now familiar shade of green." - READ MORE IN MY BOOK "THE COLOUR OF TIME", available on Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble and at the nearest bookshop!
> I'm not sure if too many people are looking to be tutored in the history of photography (other than maybe some students).
I was actually looking for an online class on that last year, and couldn't find really anything; I ended up buying a 700 page textbook to work through myself instead.
But I'd agree there aren't many people like that. :)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8874399286/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I liked this book. It had a ton of photos in there.
For someone who doesn't do it on a daily basis I would say with some more time and practice you could become a hell of a great artist.
Keep with it, pick up some fundamental books about anatomy and the human body in motion.
I recommend this book as a starting point: http://www.amazon.com/Human-Figure-Motion-Eadweard-Muybridge/dp/0486202046
So get some Ik foot planting in. Don't do a single cycle to like 5 or 10 so it's not that repetetive and it loops better.
Look at your foot placement he's walking wide legged, humans walk with their feet much more in line.
Don't do the hand in pockets thing, its a nightmare that serves zero purpose and will mess up every single transition, just don't, not worth the effort.
Also get this book, it will teach you good keyframe posing and a better understanding of anatomy and the actual movement of humans. (Every animator should own this) https://www.amazon.nl/Human-Figure-Motion-Eadweard-Muybridge/dp/0486202046/ref=asc_df_0486202046/?tag=nlshogostdsp-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=481510149102&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5680145752706857599&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt...
Growing up I heard La Lomita Chapel was haunted (wish I knew the story behind that, just heard rumors).
There’s also a book that’s been written on the subject apparently…
Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley by David Bowles
Dang, I wish I knew a story I could share rite now. 👻 Nite y’all~
May I recommend this book.
It's full of pictures of m/m couples from the 1850s - 1950s.
The couple who made the book have spent 20 years searching garage sales and what not looking for these photos.
The ones in the book are a small percentage of what they have - they only published the highest quality ones. It also only represents the m/m couples who would have had access to photography between 1850 and 1950 and have been willing to pose for a photo even though it was dangerous. And they're all American. And it only features men.
So percentage wise, this book contains a TINY percentage of the queer people who were around back then. And yet the book is massive and contains so.many.people.
In my senior year high school class, we had a round table discussion about these images in this book. Truly horrible stuff.
I just got finished reading a book called Wisconsin Death Trip and back then, when your family started getting diptheria and dying off one by one, the local authorities would come burn your house down along with everything in it to keep it from spreading.
Can you imagine instead of going to the DMV and getting chuffed after politely being asked to wear a mask, the DMV came to you and torched everything you own right after they heard half your family just died?
Can you imagine if something like diptheria or smallpox happened today? People would rather watch each other shit themselves to death than wear a mask. And that's somehow noble? Brave? Patriotic? Like do they know Typhoid Mary is a tragic lesson, not a hero?
I would highly recommend the book, by the way. It's basically just newspaper clippings from a small town in Wisconsin in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries, along with some pictures of dead people a local photographer took. It's equal parts hilarious and gruesome.
You reminded me of this one book I've been wanting to get from Amazon... Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s https://www.amazon.com/dp/8874399286/ I'm not sure if links are ok but it's Amazon so it should be fine? It's pretty pricey but since it's photographs it makes sense.
I'm reading a book right now about life in late 1800-early 1900 Wisconsin. People got diptheria back then. A lot of people. Family after family, and every one of their kids died. People were losing every single one of their children.
Want to know what the authorities did back then? They quarantined your house, then when everyone was done dying, they burned the house to the ground with everything in it. So other people wouldn't get it and die.
Is that how you'd rather this all go? Because a shot in the arm so that people can keep living and still participate in society seems pretty fucking tame compared to that.
Want to know how we stopped it? Mandated fucking vaccines.
This is the book if you'd like to learn more. Something tells me you don't, though.
That picture was included in this Loving book:
The one in the book is slightly cropped however.
>https://www.amazon.com/dp/0789209373/
Definitely going to be picking these up. Especially that Magnum one. I feel like looking at contact sheets gives you a special insight into a photographers process... How they work a scene, what they feel is appropriate placement, what they're looking for etc. Love these rec's as I'm a huge slut for books. Thank you! :)
> I'm not usually that into history, but I can't get enough camera history
Well, then I have a book for you! https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0789209373/
I'm like 150 pages in and still in the 1870s.