Staycation Los Angeles 1977

 Southern California vacation snapshots from 1977, courtesy of Johnny

San Juan Capistrano

Los Angeles Freeways

Universal Studios Backlot

Beach Nap

Femme au lorgnon 1902

Woman with an Eye-Glass by Joan González

Negative Positive : Walker Evans Self-Portrait in Sunglasses

Self-Portrait in Sunglasses Before Bookshelf, 48 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Walker Evans, 1929.

From the Walker Evans Archive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Substance of The Thing Felt : Edward Steichen

 

A portrait of photographer Edward Steichen by Yousuf Karsh (1965)

Triumph of the Egg (1921)

Loretta Young (1932)

View the Steichen photograph collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Paul and Grace Hartman (1936)

 

 Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France (1914)

Orbital Maneuvers : Wives of NASA's Project Gemini Space Program

Five days after the Soviet Spacewalk, several astronaut’s wives watch in tremendous anticipation as the first Gemini lifts off with its two man crew. Love this, a broad brushstroke of expression and emotion, much more than just one moment captured here, these faces beam back all the pride, thrill, terror and raw astonishment the Space Program can present.

Or maybe it’s a just a summer snapshot with the greatest collection of 60′s sunglasses ever captured by camera. (From Sci-Fi-O-Rama)

Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966. Its objective was to develop space travel techniques in support of Apollo, which had the goal of landing men on the Moon.

Sarah Moon by Martine Franck

French photographer and filmmaker Sarah Moon as photographed by Martine Franck in 1983 in Paris.  At the time, Moon was producing her book, Les Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood).

Light and Shadow: Compositions of Jaromir Funke

Jaromir Funke photographed by Josef Sudek in Prague, 1924.

Composition (1932) from the Time Persists Cycle

Composition of the Sphere (1927)

Composition (1927)

Woke Up But I'm Still Dreaming : Visions of Juan O'Gorman

Self-Portrait (1950) by Mexican muralist and architect Juan O'Gorman.  He is known for designing Casa Azul (The Blue House) for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

  

Mosaic mural on the exterior of the UNAM Library in Mexico City by O'Gorman in 1953.  The stone details decorate all four façades of the structure, depicting aspects of Aztec culture and the creation of modern Mexico.

 

O’Gorman’s own house outside Mexico City (1953–56, demolished 1969) was considered his most extraordinary work. It was in part a natural cave and was designed to harmonize with the lava formations of the landscape.

 
Decorated with mosaic symbols and images from Aztec mythology, it marked his eventual rejection of Functionalism in favor of an approach that united modern structural designs with indigenous Mexican decorative motifs.

In 1958, Juan O'Gorman was photographed by pioneering architectural historian Esther McCoy on his visit to the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.  McCoy promoted the work of O'Gorman in California, organizing a solo exhibition for him in 1958 at the Long Beach Museum of Art. 

Rome Flea Market (I)

Street photography by Robert Rauschenberg, 1952.  

From the Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection.

What Have We Seen? What Have We Heard?

Who stands at my window?  Who knocks upon my door?

Lady Red, Lady White, Hey Ladies

1940s fashion took on a conservative and military style as women wore utilitarian clothes with stiff tailoring. Female curves were hidden once again, as the nipped in waist and narrow skirts produced a slim shape. This worked if you were MTF with a male gait!

Sound and Vision

Members of a Polka Band at the Gibbon Ballroom in Minnesota in the 1950s. Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives.

I forgot my swimsuit ! 1957

Play to Win : Slap Shot (GO KINGS!)

Steve Hanson respects the national anthem in Slap Shot (1977). 

More importantly, KINGS beat the DEVILS, win the CUP!  GO KINGS!

Dum Dum Boy : Iggy Pop Aviator in '77

Iggy Pop makes an appearance on French television in 1977, the year he released both The Idiot and Lust for Life.

Reflections of My Life

Because You're Mine

Alan Price (the organist from The Animals) solo work from 1966

Re-Post : Ray Bradbury and the Prunes of Tomorrow

Mountain High

Plaster of Paris

Sixties Parisian street scene, 1963.