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Flkr Commons: I found these beautiful vintage public domain copyright free photographs on the Flkr Commons (www.flickr.com/commons/); a collection of photos designed to share with you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, they come from many large collections of vintage photographs; these are the photo gallaries that the vintage public domain copyright free photographs on this page were drawn from :
The New York Public Library Photography Collection:
(www.digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/...) IThe New York Public Library. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project. Upper Photograph Source: Denishawn Collection: Throughout NYPL's research collections, dance images are available for study. Since 1944, a special unit devoted to collecting, preserving, creating and accessing dance documentation has developed into the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center. This particular digital presentation will continue to grow over time, featuring the department's iconographic file of historical prints and photographs of dancers.
The George Eastman Photography Collection: (www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/photography.php) Is like a photography museum which includes more than 400,000 photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. The collection embraces numerous landmark processes, objects of great rarity, and monuments of art history that trace the evolution of the medium as a technology, as a means of scientific and historical documentation, and as one of the most potent and accessible means of personal expression of the modern era. More than 14,000 photographers are represented in the collection, including virtually all the major figures in the history of the medium. The collection includes original vintage works produced by nearly every process and printing medium employed.
The U.S. Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/index.html): The Library of Congress has a huge archive of vintage public domain copyright free photographs (www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog), the humorous poster of Ruth the Acrobat a poster from a side show at the 1941 Vermont State Fair comes from the federal libraries FSA/OWI Color Photographs collection (www.lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fsacabt). Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period.
Vintage Photograph and Vintage Erotica Links Related to this page:
Famous Photographer Nickolas Muray Biography at Wikipedia
Collection of Vintage Nickolas Muray Photographs at George Eastman
1950-60's Vintage Sex Icon Marilyn Monroe Biograpy at IMDb
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Photographer Nickolas Muray Short Biography: Photographer Nickolas Muray
(15 February 1892 - 2 November 1965) was a Hungarian-born prolific early American photographer. He made over 10,000 photographic portraits including many famous celebrities in New York City between 1920 and 1940. In 1929 he was hired by Vanity magazine to travel Europe taking pictures then to California to photograph movie stars in Hollywood. He also did much fashion and advertising work. The two upper photos came from the photographers work for McCall's Magazine and Muray's images were published in many other publications, including Vogue, Ladies' Home Journal, and The New York Times. |