The Oldtimer

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Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:12:20 -0400

marlenedoll: Methane Studios

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:32:05 -0500

marlenedoll:

Methane Studios

burnedshoes: © Eleanor Antin, 1971-73, 100 Boots / Fifty-one...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:31:47 -0500

burnedshoes:

© Eleanor Antin, 1971-73, 100 Boots / Fifty-one photolithographic postcards

The 1960s and 1970s are recognized as the defining era of the Conceptual Art movement, a period in which centuries held assumptions about the nature of art itself were questioned and dissolved. Until now, the pivotal role that photography played in this movement has never been fully examined. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized the first major survey of influential artists of this period who used photography in ways that went far beyond its traditional definitions as a medium – and succeeded thereby in breaking down the boundaries of all mediums in contemporary art. (read more)

These photos are part of the exhibition: ‘Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964 – 1977′ at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibition dates: Dec. 13, 2011 – Mar. 11, 2012

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nocontxt: The Babe

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nocontxt:

The Babe

burnedshoes: © Leon Levinstein, 1978, Untitled (old man, cup...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:38:24 -0500

burnedshoes:

© Leon Levinstein, 1978, Untitled (old man, cup behind back)

retrogasm: Your days are numbered…

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:32:08 -0500

retrogasm:

Your days are numbered…

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nocontxt: you don’t get any more iconic than this.

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:11:55 -0500

nocontxt:

you don’t get any more iconic than this.

burnedshoes: © John Albok, 1937, Ice Skating This is for...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:11:48 -0500

burnedshoes:

© John Albok, 1937, Ice Skating

This is for chagalov.

“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

old-ads-and-mags: Fiat 850

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:11:44 -0500

old-ads-and-mags:

Fiat 850

burnedshoes: Unknown photographer / Getty Images, 1960s, The...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:59:32 -0500

burnedshoes:

Unknown photographer / Getty Images, 1960s, The Monkees

The four members of the Monkees were selected in 1966 to form both a “Beatles-like” band and be featured on their own TV series. The band released nine albums in four years and their TV show ran for two years.

Jones, a teenage actor, appeared in a West End production of Oliver! as the Artful Dodger. The Monkees was a comical and often absurd look at the life of four aspiring young musicians.

Davy Jones, “the cute one” among TV’s “The Monkees,” died of a heart attack Wednesday in Florida. He was 66. (more pictures here).

burnedshoes: © Grey Villet, April 1954, Grey Villet’s feet...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:00:44 -0500

burnedshoes:

© Grey Villet, April 1954, Grey Villet’s feet dangling over Fifth Avenue

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wonderfulambiguity: Fernando Herráez, Serie Línea de Playa:...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:00:40 -0500

wonderfulambiguity:

Fernando Herráez, Serie Línea de Playa: Foto 1

nocontxt: whoa…that sure is purdy. bushdog: Yamaha Y125 Moegi...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:00:37 -0500

nocontxt:

whoa…that sure is purdy.

bushdog:

Yamaha Y125 Moegi is your retro 1955 YA-1 motorcycle | Japanese Nostalgic Car

fractionmagazine: untitled by hopefuldoubtful on Flickr.

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:39:09 -0500

fractionmagazine:

untitled by hopefuldoubtful on Flickr.

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burnedshoes:

LEFT: Unknown German soldier, RIGHT: © Paweł Sawicki

A new publication by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland shows photographs taken in the extermination camp during World War II alongside pictures of the same locations today.

The wartime photographs were taken by members of the German SS in 1944 and appear in The Auschwitz Album (or Lili Jacob Album), which contains nearly 200 photographs showing the arrival of a transport of Hungarian Jews at the Birkenau camp. The pictures document each stage of processing - from departure from the train and the march to the gas chambers, to the looting of property and the selection of people spared immediate death to work in camp. The only stage not recorded is the extermination in the gas chambers.

The photographer of the present-day pictures, Paweł Sawicki, noted that a detailed analysis of the historical photographs was necessary in order to find the same places and to get to know the working methods of the German author.

The book, Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Place Where You Are Standing, contains 31 wartime pictures, matched to their present-day locations. It has been published in Polish and English versions by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:08:39 -0500

burnedshoes:

© Raymond Depardon, 1962, Children playing “building the Wall”, West Berlin / Germany

“I remember an article, I can’t recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.” (Claude Chabrol)

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Vietnam War1 November 1955 - 30 April 1975: The Vietnam War was...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:27:56 -0500

Vietnam War
1 November 1955 - 30 April 1975:

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States of America and other anti-communist countries. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist-controlled common front, largely fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The Vietnam People’s Army (North Vietnamese Army) engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units into battle. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes.

The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. The North Vietnamese government and Viet Cong viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state. American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations spanned international borders, with Laos and Cambodia heavily bombed. American involvement in the war peaked in 1968, at the time of the Tet Offensive. After this, U.S. ground forces were gradually withdrawn as part of a policy known as Vietnamization. Despite the Paris Peace Accords, signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued.

U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973 as a result of the Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress. The capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People’s Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (see Vietnam War casualties). Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from less than one million to more than three million. Some 200.000–300.000 Cambodians, 20.000 – 200.000 Laotians, and 58.220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict.

This compilation has been made in honor of all the fallen during this war.

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marlenedoll: Methane Studios

Methane Studios

burnedshoes: © Eleanor Antin, 1971-73, 100 Boots / Fifty-one...

nocontxt: The Babe

burnedshoes: © Leon Levinstein, 1978, Untitled (old man, cup...

retrogasm: Your days are numbered…

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nocontxt: you don’t get any more iconic than this.

burnedshoes: © John Albok, 1937, Ice Skating This is for...

old-ads-and-mags: Fiat 850

burnedshoes: Unknown photographer / Getty Images, 1960s, The...

burnedshoes: © Grey Villet, April 1954, Grey Villet’s feet...

wonderfulambiguity: Fernando Herráez, Serie Línea de Playa:...

nocontxt: whoa…that sure is purdy. bushdog: Yamaha Y125 Moegi...

fractionmagazine: untitled by hopefuldoubtful on Flickr.

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burnedshoes: LEFT: Unknown German soldier, RIGHT: © Paweł...

burnedshoes: © Raymond Depardon, 1962, Children playing...

Vietnam War1 November 1955 - 30 April 1975: The Vietnam War was...