A quiet game, 1901
Detroit Publishing Company
South African author Alan Paton (January 11, 1903 – April 12, 1988) teaching a child in front of a church in Natal. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, February 1949.
This photograph was taken in February 1949, when Larrabee was on assignment for Harper’s Bazaar. Her objective was to create a portfolio inspired by Paton’s seminal book Cry, The Beloved Country, which brought the conditions in South Africa to the attention of the world. The novel was published in 1948, with apartheid becoming law later that year.
Boys playing cricket in Drouin, Australia, ca. 1944
The National Library of Australia has a bunch of photographs from Drouin during WWII
I met a room full of holocaust survivors this weekend. I had to dig my fingernails into my palm to stop myself from crying. They were there happily talking amongst themselves, sharing their experiences. At that moment I realized how lucky I am and how I should value life so much more.
November 1908. Chester, South Carolina. Wylie Mill. Boy with calf is Pamento Benson. Raising it for beef. Has worked in mill 2 years. Mr. Benson said, “Just as soon as the boys get old enough to handle a plow, we go straight back to the farm. Factory is no place for boys.” Next to Pamento is Ray Benson, “helper in the mill.” Next Clarence Rost, works in mill.
Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine via Shorpy
“more than any other kind of antique photograph, the tintype communicates a sense (…) of the utter strangeness, the alterity, of the past.”
(photographer unknown)
Via Terry Castle
