emil cadoo

emil cadoo was a unique american in paris. more about the late emil can be found here

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]

archive • avellinesi

this is a wide-ranging, historical photo archive from avellino, italy. see more here.

[all from avellinesi .]

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

the bar mitzvah and other tales of living in stereo

a very nice series over at square america that takes stereo slides from the 1950s and turns them into animated gifs to thrilling 3-d-esque effect. see them all here.

[all from square america. from the series the bar mitzvah and other tales of living in stereo.]

what was on

what was on is one of a handful of interesting collections of snapshots and vernacular photos online over at square america. as they say about these pictures, they were "taken late at night by a lonely photographer in 1957. encrusted with 50 year old dust and emulsion the photos of women from melodramas and late-night talk shows are not only a record of one person's peculiar obsession but also a virtual catalog of the kind of roles women played in the popular entertainment of the era." you can see more of these here. thanks to andrew for passing along this link.

[all unknown photographer. from the series what was on. 1957.]