Old and new photographs that can sometimes be odd or surreal but are always unique with an interesting backstory.
Post-WWII France, winter 1945; ordered by the Department Subprefect to conduct the marriage of a local man with a German woman, Mayor Doinel of Brunoy, a Holocaust survivor, wears his Buchenwald concentration camp uniform in protest as he presides over the ceremony.
Contortionist tower by 3 women. Took me a while to figure out how this tower worked. Around 1940s.
Woman stares from the dark in this photo. I guess 1910s. the colour and the glare gives a kind of hauting tone.
New York City wise guy pretending to be a street sweeper
An assault victim poses for the camera in Chinatown, L.A. 1934. In 2014, a huge batch of brutal but fascinating crime scene photos were discovered in the LAPD Archives. If you want to browse through them I’ve linked to them below.
Group of small girls outside a school with their traditional clothes. from Uruapan, Michoacan (Mexico). Love how some try to be formal on their poses while other couldn’t care less. by the shoes, i think is 1940s.
Olympic shooter Károly Takács photographed in 1956. Originally Takács was a right handed shooter but in the early 1940s a grenade exploded in his hand, so he became a left handed shooter and continued to win Gold.
Thathlo Harjo. Born in 1791. He fought in two Seminole wars. Was relocated to Indian territory in 1842. Joined 1st regiment in 1861. After the war he settled in what is now Seminole county Oklahoma. He saw men fight with muskets and people driving automobiles. He died in 1904 at 113 years old
Sisters Christine (left)and Léa Papin shortly after their arrest in 1933 for the murder and mutilation of the woman and daughter that they worked as maids for. Léa Papin was born on this day in 1911.
