Skating the Charleston, 1926:
Via Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933, Chicago History Museum.
Archive for February, 2009
Chicago winter sports, Part 1
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Varvara Stepanova
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Photo #1 is Outfit of the Week. Better than a leather catsuit!
Yves St. Laurent you can afford
Thursday, February 26th, 2009So, I’m guessing that most of you sat on your hands during the Christie’s auction of the collection of Yves St. Laurent and Pierre Bergé (see my picks here, here and here). Since you saved so much money by not buying a Matisse, an Eileen Gray armchair or a very rare and important rat head, maybe you can cruise some other auctions:
All this and more on eBay.
Collection Yves St. Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Day Three
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
The end.
via Christie’s.
Collection Yves St. Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Day Two
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Top to bottom: Ingres, Ruhlmann, Gray, Cheuret, Lalanne
via Christie’s.
Girl on a motorcyle
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Marianne Faithfull in a famously ridiculous movie:
Anke-Eve Goldmann in real life:
Thanks to Northstar Vintage for the tip.
Collection Yves St. Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Day One
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Sorry if you had your heart set on any of these, but they’re already sold:
Top to bottom: Duchamp, Calder, Brancusi, Klee, Leger
via Christie’s.
Harlem Debutante Cotillion, 1950
Monday, February 23rd, 2009The LIFE photo archive is pretty much the best thing to happen, ever. These portraits by Herbert Gehr are so beautiful I might actually die:
Stay tuned for more!
Mesa Verde National Park, 1917, 1939 and today
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009“In what is now this Park, a Spanish exploring party discovered cliff houses in 1541. At that time the buildings had been abandoned for generations. No one knows how many centuries or millenniums had then elapsed since the Mesa was deserted. The age of these cliff houses has been estimated from five hundred to five thousand years. Modern discovery of the region appears to have been made by a government geological party in 1874.” — Enos A. Mills, Your National Parks, Houghton Mifflin, 1917 via Google Book Search.
Russell Lee photographs via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection.
What everyone was looking at, via Flickr.
“It is true that their civilization was different from ours of to-day, and happily different from the European civilization of that time…They possessed a keen sense of right and wrong, and in ethics they may have averaged higher than the European.” — Mills
Spring coats
Friday, February 20th, 2009Less than a month until spring equinox!
The most positive things I can say about springtime weather in Chicago is that it’s not as cold as winter, and you get plenty of chances to wear your spring coat.
Bonnie Cashin probably made the best spring coats:
Try eBay and enokiworld.