Brownie Six-20 Model F

..Made in England, 1955 - 1957

Ilha do Sal...

photo: A. Amorim

The artist pair....

..the Swedish zeitgeist of the 50s in a beautiful photo by Olle Waller

Merry Christmas....

photo by Dorothea Lange, september 1935

"Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California."

In Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Rarity....

 ..a shop with Kodak signs in 2023

La chanteuse....

Françoise Hardy, 1969

"Girls in the windows"....

New York, 1960, by Ormond Gigli

Happy Christmas.....

USA,1930`s by Dorothea Lange

Rossio 1965....

 ..by Armando Serôdio

Manoel de Oliveira....

Rua do Carmo....

..1960. Photo by Armando Serôdio

San Francisco,1956....

..photo by Fred Lyon

Recent history....

Not long ago, Kodak signs could be found all over the world. The company held a dominant position in photographic film for more than a century. Although Kodak developed the first handheld digital camera in 1975, the product was dropped for fear it would threaten Kodak's main income; its photographic film business. That attempt to “delay the future", was certainly a huge business mistake and the digital era would thirty-seven years later send the company nearly into bankruptcy. In 2014, Kodak negotiated with movie studios for an annual movie film order guarantee to preserve the last source of movie film manufacturing in the United States. Kodak announced in 2018 that the 135 and Super 8 format of Ektachrome is available again. However....the Kodak signs are gone everywhere.

Happy Christmas....

Mother of a family of nine living in a field on U.S. Route 70, near the Tennessee River. Photo taken in March 1936 by Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration.

A reality still in many places around our globe. So many advances, but poverty and war, are still humanity`s eternal companions. It was like that in 1836, 1936 or 2019.... 

Lisboa 1963....

Estrada das Laranjeiras, photo: Artur Goulart

Airport "security", 1952....

photo: António Passaporte

..here at Portela Airport in Lisbon.

Transition....

Photo and text by Natalie Curtis

"You’ll need the code. An evidence of existence. To enable your arrival, and your departure (though the leaving is not so easy, the way the time moves, slowing and sticking). But more than that, for when it’s all gone, and some of it already is. Because even if you wanted this place to last forever, and you don’t, the cities mutate around us and nothing stays the same."

Happy Christmas....

Outside Paris in the mid 1960`s. Photo: Gérald Bloncourt

This photo of a Portuguese immigrant child is so much more than that moment....it is a child with curiosity and dreams that the future could be different. Everything is written on her face. A truly beautiful picture.

Life on Mars....

Bowie on the road of transition (early 1973) with the creation by Freddie Burretti. Photo by Mick Rock

Roma....