archive • Army Libraries Through the Years

these pictures of soldiers in libraries are mostly from the 1940's and are in a sub-section of the us army center for military history website. more categories here.

[all from us army center for military history]

archive is a column by asha schechter

dora maar and hello or goodbye

big thanks to laurel for letting me post all these images by artists that were filling my brain it was a ton of fun. images are about my favorite things in the world and almost ever since I started making them i dreamt of a time when we could speak in pure images - maybe we are getting closer ... like the egyptians !

i started posting with john coplans a week ago and the last or the first post will be someone just as special ..... everybody's favorite picasso muse henriette theodora markovitch aka dora maar was also a photographer and an unparalleled image maker in her own right. more dora can be found here __ _thanks and keep in touch ___ BestBiLLS

[ per ubu 1936 : sans titre 1935 : sans titre 1934 ]

raoul ubac

raoul ubac was a belgian painter, sculptor and photographer whose work proceeded and paralleled that of frederick sommer. more here

raoul hausmann

"At the time he was living with Heda Mankowicz-Hausmann and Vera Broido in Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße in Charlottenberg. Elfrided Hausmann-Scheffer, Til and I went there often. But I always found it very boring. He was just acting the photographer, and the lover of Vera B, showing off terribly with what he could afford to buy now - the ésprit was all gone." Hannah Höch more here

erwin blumenfeld

nobody made more beautiful or interesting images than the incomparable Erwin Blumenfeld who began as a painter moved through dada and surrealism and into fashion. more here and here

[ Le miroir brisé 1940 . the Dictator 1937 , Four Faces of Manina Paris 1938 , Oty Reijne-Lebeau, Amsterdam 1932]

indre serpytyte

indre serpytyte's 'forest brothers' project. "in 1944 a cold war began, a war that was brutal, inhumane. a war that has now been almost forgotten....hidden behind the iron curtain, the occupation of the soviet block continued for 50 years and destroyed the lives of millions. it is estimated that there were at least 20 million deaths. many believe that the real figure is closer to 60 million. despite not receiving any backing from the west, the partisans’ resistance fought against the soviet regime. these partisans had to abandon both their families and homes and seek sanctuary in the forests..." see more here.

[all indre serpytyte. from the series (1944-1991) forest brothers.]

archive • gandhiserve online archive

these images of gandhi (and his "worldly possessions") are from a large archive. see more here.

[all from gandhiserve online image archive.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

yamamoto kansuke

japanese surrealist photographer yamamoto kansuke's work from the 1940s. see more here and read about it here.

[all yamamoto kansuke. top to bottom: stapled flesh. 1949. title unknown. 1940. title unknown 1940.]