December 2009
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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New Year's
In 1942 and 1943, the glowing Ball was temporarily retired due to the wartime “dimout” of lights in New York City. The crowds who still gathered in Times Square in those years greeted the New Year with a minute of silence followed by chimes ringing out from sound trucks parked at the base of the Times Tower.
Dec 30th
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New Year's Eve in Times Square.
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New Year’s Eve Ball, 1978. Photo credit: The New...
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Morning Trolley, Prague, 1927
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Frida, Frida, & Frida
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Philippe Halsman, Dali, 1948.
“It was initially supposed to splash out milk, but in hungry post-war Europe it would look excessively calling, and milk was replaced by water. Two pictures, an easel and a stool are suspended to a ceiling on a scaffold. Photographer’s wife Ivonna holds a chair. On the “three” Halsman’s assistants splash out a bucket of water and throw cats in air. On the...
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Harry Shunk, 1960
Via: http://www.menil.org/exhibitions/LeapsintotheVoid.php
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Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void)
Photomontage by Harry Shunk of a performance by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960.
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Karnak, Francis Frith
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Marceline Day,1924.
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Frank Horvat, Paris Couple (Quai du Louvre) 1955
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After the Grand Prix – Paris (Después del Grand...
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Tina Modotti by Edward Weston
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Robert Doisneau, 1957
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Dec 26th
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Audrey, Richard Avedon. 1967
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Woman in the Mirror,Avedon,50's.
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Royal Price Alfred Hospital Christmas kiss,...
Via: State Library of New South Wales (on Flickr)
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Dec 23rd
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Sophia Loren
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Creation, 1936, Ruth Bernhard
Dec 23rd
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In the Box, Horizontal, 1962
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camden hil. Bill brandt, 1949.
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Repeal of Prohibition, 1933.
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