Chambers and Barton Streets, July 19, 1959 (via).
Demolition of Boston’s West End
Gallery
Antietam, 1862
Alexander Gardner, “A lone grave on the Antietam battlefield” (1862) (via Slate)
Happy 49th
One nice thing about doing an appearance on your birthday: the crowd just may sing “Happy Birthday” to you. This is me conducting the singers at the Duxbury, MA, Public Library last July. It was my 49th birthday. The event was sponsored by the Westwinds Bookshop in Duxbury. (Photo by Julius Prince.)
Goodbye, summer
Weegee, “Coney Island Beach” (1940)
Labor Day weekend. Always a melancholy time. Goodbye, summer.
Lartigue again
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), “Etretat” (July 1907) (detail) (full image here)
Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986). “The ZYX takes off… Piroux, Zissou, Georges Louis and Dédé try to fly, too, Rouzat, September 1910.” Silver gelatine print, around 1965, 60,1 x 74 cm. (Via Galerie Berinson)
Whale and Calf
“Whale and Calf,” artist unknown, ca. 1830.
“What it shows is a whale calf in the mouth of its mother. She is not, of course, eating it. (Those teeth are useless.) She is trying to rescue it. And that, my friends, was all part of the whalers’ fiendish plan. If whalers — big drivers of the economy in early industrial America — could get their harpoons into a whale calf they never missed their chance, because harpooning the baby was a perfect way to lure in the adult. The bigger the whale, the more oil.” More on this painting here.
