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Post by Aurelia on Mar 12, 2020 9:43:11 GMT -5
I wanted to make a thread solely for sharing what I'd call "Ephemera" - photographs / images from the past that aren't truly "Art" per se, but give a glimpse of the beauty and aesthetic of a time in the past. Often these images have no artist's name attached to them - they are just candid moments in time that we can visually experience as if we were there... which is pretty incredible if you think about it.
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Post by Aurelia on Mar 12, 2020 10:19:29 GMT -5
 Betty Blythe (1893-1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba.  WWI trenches - colorized  Loading a swan into the car - skirt length and style look like the 1930's or early 1940's.  East End slums - 19th C London |
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Post by Woland on Mar 21, 2020 17:11:38 GMT -5
Daguerreotype from 1838, le Boulevard du Temple, Paris.  |
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Post by Aurelia on Mar 23, 2020 10:25:46 GMT -5
I read Ambrose Bierce's writing on his experiences at Shiloh during the ACW - perhaps at too young an age to be thinking about such things... but there is a phrase he uses that often comes to mind when viewing photos of dead soldiers, where he describes them appearing "... in the unlovely looseness of attitude denoting sudden death by the bullet...". Having been fascinated by Memento Mori photographs, I have a bit of a terrifying collection of favorite images that understandably make most people uncomfortable (all the more reason to share them here  ).  ACW Confederate   WWI - German  WWI German  Spanish Civil War  ACW  WWI British  ACW Confederate |
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Post by Aurelia on Mar 26, 2020 10:44:57 GMT -5
 Victorian couple trying to keep their composure for a photograph - 1890's |
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Post by Windischer on Mar 30, 2020 13:29:39 GMT -5
Pardon me as this one is very cliché, but Robert Capa's Falling Soldier, as it is usually called, is one of the most iconic photographs of the Spanish Civil War.  |
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Post by Woland on Apr 30, 2020 15:11:11 GMT -5
Colourised photo of a 19th century family from Ekaterinburg
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Post by Woland on May 1, 2020 7:26:59 GMT -5
Notre Dame de Paris, 1853.
Wine container in Kakheti, Georgia, 1881
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Post by Aurelia on May 1, 2020 13:49:03 GMT -5
 Union soldiers entrenched along the bank of the Rappahannock River. Fredericksburg, VA  Lincolns funeral procession moving through Washington D.C. 1865  Officers of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry. Petersburg, Va., August, 1864 These images were all restored and colorized by Paul Mitchell... really brings the images to life! |
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Post by Woland on May 1, 2020 14:45:42 GMT -5
Victor Hugo's funeral procession, it's estimated 2 million people (or 5% of France's population at that time) came to pay their respects.
Damascus in the 19th Century
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