I am a devotee of retro black and white photos. Particularly, photos from the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. I have posted a number of black and white photos over the lasted several years. When I find a black and white photo I like, I save it and when I have a handful, I post them. Set forth below are several photos I have recently found on the internet. I hope you like them,
This is a busy photo with a lot of things happening. According to the internet, this was taken in London. My favorite person in this photo is the woman on the bottom right of the photo who is looking at the man. She has her hands together. What is she communicating to her table mate?
To me this photo feels lonely. Is she a bride waiting for her husband to be? There is a ribbon on the car. What is she looking at? Is the man in the picture a bystander or is he part of her group? I like her white high heels. Her legs seem too thin for my liking.
Coit Tower in San Francisco is one of my favorite sights. Wikipedia says:
Coit Tower, also known as the Lillian Coit Memorial Tower, is a 210-foot tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco; at her death in 1929 Coit left one-third of her estate to the city for civic beautification. The tower was proposed in 1931 as an appropriate use of Coit's gift.The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard, with fresco murals by 27 different on-site artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation off-site
Bocce Ball players in San Francisco. These gentlemen are carefully studying the situation..
These guys look like hoodlums.
Black kids or white kids, there is a sweetness in children. Wouldn't you like to hold the boy in the Mickey Mouse ears on your lap and talk to him; ask him questions; and hear his answers?
If her arms were just a little longer she could get that last spot.
I will stay on the look out form more black and white photos.
Recently Read Books
- A Delicate Truth- John Le Carre (fiction)
- Perfect - Rachel Joyce (Fiction)
- The Expats - Chris Pavone (Fiction)
- An Event in Autumn - Henning Mankel (Fiction)
- Winter in Madrid - C.J.Sansom (Fiction)
- The Brothers - John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles - non-fiction
- LIfe Among Giants - Bill Roorbach (Novel)
- Empty Mansions - Bill Dedman (non-fiction)
- Woodrow Wilson (non fiction)
- Lawrence in Arabia (Non-Fiction)
- In Sunlight and In Shadow by Mark Helpren (Fiction)
- Lesson in French - Hilary Reyl (fiction)
- Unbroken- Laura Hillenbrand (Non-Fiction)
- Venice, A New History- Thomas Madden - (Non- Fiction)
- Life is a Gift - Tony Bennett Autobiography
- The First Counsell - Brad Meltzer (Fiction)
- Destiny of the Republic - President James Garfield non-fiction by Candice Millard
- The Last Lion (volume III)- William Manchester and Paul Reid (non-fiction, Winston Churchill)
- Yellowstone Autumn -W.D. Wetherell (non-fiction about turning 55 and fishing in Yellowstone)
- Everybody was Young- (non-fiction Paris in the 1920's)
- Scorpion - (non fiction US Supreme Court)
- Supreme Power - Jeff Shesol (non-fiction)
- Zero day by David Baldacci ( I read all of Baldacci's Books)
- Northwest Angle - William Kent Krueger (fiction - I have read 5 or 6 books by this author)
- Camelot's Court-Insider the Kennedy Whitehouse- Robert Dallek
- Childe Hassam -Impressionist (a beautiful book of his paintings)
Sunday, January 4, 2015
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