Recolector de Conchas

27/06/2017

Amrita Sher-Gil.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10087130/The-Indian-Frida-Kahlo.html

The daughter of a Sikh aristocrat and a Hungarian opera singer was never going to be ordinary. But Amrita Sher-Gil – in her art, in her adventuress life, and in the photographs taken of her by her pioneering father in the early 1900s – proved truly remarkable.

12/12/2015

The seal on the doors of the tomb of Tutankhamen, 1922.
It had remained intact for an incredible 3,245 years.

06/12/2015

Kawase Hasui (1833-1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. In the West, Kawase is mainly known as a Japanese woodblock printmaker. He and Hiroshi Yoshida are widely regarded as two of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and are known especially for their landscape prints.

04/12/2015

When she was 54, Bette Davis published this "looking for a job" advert in a newspaper as a joke regarding the situation of the actresses when they age (she already had two Oscars by then). This gesture lead her to get the role of Jane in What Ever Happen to baby Jane.

10/06/2015

07/10/2014

The Yazidis are the largest ethnic and religious minority in Armenia. They are mostly ethnic Kurds. Many of them live a semi-nomad life during the summer months in the highlands around the Aragats mountain in Western Armenia.

07/10/2014

Anna May Wong might not be immediately recognizable today unlike some of her contemporaries (she acted alongside Buster Keaton and Marlene Dietrich to name a couple), but she was the first Chinese American movie star and a fashion icon in her own right. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio. In 1922 the New York Times commented,“She should be seen again and often on the screen.” Of course being an Asian-American in the 1920s and 30s severely limited the roles offered to her; anti-miscegenation laws meant she couldn’t be cast as a romantic lead opposite of a white actor. American directors even passed up her as a lead for Chinese roles casting white women to play Chinese characters instead (see German actress Luise Rainer as O-Lan in The Good Earth). Still in the late 1930s, she starred in several B movies for Paramount Pictures, portraying Chinese Americans in a positive light. These smaller-budgeted films could be bolder than the higher-profile releases, and she used this to her advantage to portray successful, professional, Chinese-American characters.
While she was first and foremost an actress, once quoted as saying “I am wedded to my art,” Anna May Wong was also a fashion icon in her day. She cultivated a stylish flapper image and in the 1930s was on various “Best Dressed” lists. When I admire Anna May Wong I appreciate her beauty and her fashion sense, but also admire her talent and ability to thrive in a time when the odds were stacked against her.

06/10/2014

The recovered archives of a forgotten photography studio …beautiful and haunting work of Costică Acsinte, a little-known Romanian who ran a photographic studio in the small but vibrant town of Slobozia. After serving as an official World War I photographer, in 1920 he opened his studio in the centre of town. Most of his prints bear the stamp of the photography studio “Foto Splendid Acsinte” on the back.
His legacy consists in about 5000 film negatives on glass plates which he worked with until 1950, as well as a smaller number of sheet film negatives, 35mm and 120mm film.
Although his studio was demolished shortly after his retirement in 1960, he kept all his studio prints until his death nearly 25 years later. In 1985, Costică Acsinte’s family donated his work to the Ialomița County Museum.

01/05/2014

"As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you’ve got to face that - everyone goes through it… Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you’re not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn’t frighten me, but I wish I didn’t have to because I like life a lot." Audrey Hepburn.

12/04/2014

This is in Mada’in Saleh, North West Saudi Arabia. From the time of Prophet Saleh (A.S), and the people of Thamud in Nabatean era. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site

12/04/2014

A photograph from photographer Lena Herzog and aeronaut Graham Dorrington’s sketchbook “Airship.” The series details Dorrington’s dream of “pure, silent, slow flight over the jungle treetops,” which was documented in Werner Herzog’s film The White Diamond.

22/02/2014

Destiny Buck, of the Wanapum tribe, rides her mare, Daisy, in the yearly Indian princess competition in Pendleton, Oregon. Embraced first for war, hunting, and transport, horses became partners in pageantry and a way to show tribal pride.

- Photograph by Erika Larsen