Awesome Photographs of Marilyn Monroe by Philippe Halsman 1952

Philippe Halsman, (2 May 1906 Riga, Russian Empire - 25 June 1979 New York City), portrait photographer.

In 1951 Halsman was commissioned by NBC to photograph various popular comedians of the time including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Groucho Marx, and Bob Hope. While photographing the comedians doing their acts, he captured many of the comedians in mid air, which went on to inspire many later jump pictures of celebrities including the Ford family, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marilyn Monroe, María Félix and Richard Nixon.

Halsman had several photo sessions with Marilyn including Marilyn's first cover of Life Magazine.

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Wonderful Color Photographs of Belgium From the Early 20th Century

These awesome autochromes of Belgium were taken by photographer Charles Courbet (1868–1936) from between 1909 and 1914. Compared with his two other autochromist friends (A. Van Besten and P. Sano), Corbet seems to have been more subtle in the composition of his photographs. Lady in park avenue is an example of the way Corbet attuned the attire of his model to the surrounding colors of nature. In the plate Reclining woman by river the artist worked on the contrast of the big boulders and the soft feminine form of his model. The almost monochromatic Melancholia breaths an atmosphere in which one can almost sense the upcoming Belgian Surrealist Movement.

Corbet was always keen to picture sundowns of which there are quite a few examples in the collection. Especially Sunset on the heath. The various studies of still lifes are also worthwhile analyzing. Discover on this page the beauty of Corbet’s autochromes by yourself.

The Autochrome, a positive color transparency on glass, was invented by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1907 and manufactured by them until 1933. Autochromes were made by coating a glass plate with a sticky varnish and dusting it with a layer of randomly distributed, translucent potato-starch grains. These grains, which were dyed red-orange, violet, and green, were then interspersed with fine black carbon dust, and again varnished. The plates were next coated with a light-sensitive gelatin silver-bromide or silver-iodide emulsion. When the plate was inserted into a camera, the light from the lens passed through the dyed starch grains, which acted as color filters before reaching the emulsion. After exposure, the plate was processed to make a unique, full-color, positive silver image.

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Stunning Color Photographs of Berlin in the 1930s

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Photos of New Yorkers in the 1980s

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Wonderful Color Photos of Moscow in 1969

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Color Photos of Paris in 1942-44

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Interesting Vintage Photos of Motor Racing From the 1920s and 1930s

By the time racing resumed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after World War I, the Indianapolis 500 was already a renowned sporting event, attracting an international entry of drivers and cars and a crowd of more than 100,000.

Carl Fisher's dream of building a proving ground that would put machine and man to the ultimate test had become a reality. And even in those early days of the Speedway, the men in charge struggled to rein in the burgeoning technology of the rapidly advancing automotive industry - and the speed and danger that resulted from it.

Overland car jumping a fallen bridge in a promotional stunt, 1920 - 1929

Dave Carrigan at wheel of a Willys Knight car, 1926

Don Harkness at wheel in RAC hill climb, Royal National Park, 1926

Large group of men at meeting, 1920 - 1929

The 100,000th Willys-Overland exported car, outside Overland Sydney Ltd office, 1920 - 1929

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