March 29, 2016
What Did Women Wear in the 1940s? Here Are 40 Vintage Snapshots Show Everyday 1940s Women's Fashions
In a nutshell 1940s women's fashion were about creating a certain silhouette. Wide padded shoulders, nipped in high waist tops, and a-line skirts that came down to the knee. This was the everyday shape for clothing from suits to dresses, even pants had a similar shape. Check out these vintage snapshots to see women's fashion from the 1940s.
March 28, 2016
The Life at War – Interesting Vintage Photos of Soldiers as Photographers During WWI and WWII
They were not only soldiers, but also good photographers. These interesting vintage photos show the love of soldiers for photography at war.
The 10 Most Influential Men of the 1960s
Here's a list of the 10 most influential men who shaped our political, pop culture and sports world throughout the 1960s.
1. Martin Luther King Jr.
King is revered in too many ways to list: second only to Mother Teresa in Gallup's list of admired people, a Nobel Peace Prize, a federal holiday, and 700 streets named after him. He is the single most prominent civil rights figure in U.S. history, and he maintained his commitment to nonviolence and his steadfast dedication through never-ending harassment and death threats, even in his prescient speech the day before his assassination: "I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm so happy tonight."
2. Neil Armstrong
When Kennedy made that declaration, he also acknowledged its challenges, calling the space program "the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." Armstrong was accustomed to danger -- he'd flown in Korea, and as an experimental test pilot -- but the 1969 moon landing was a new kind of milestone, a defining event for humanity, and the significance of its imagery is inexpressible. The medium on which it was broadcast made it a shared human experience, as significant as Kennedy's assassination, but redemptive, the improbable realization of his promise to land on the moon within the decade.
3. John F. Kennedy
Kennedy may have more writing dedicated to the tragedy of his death than the legacy of his presidency, and that's not terribly surprising -- he was president from 1961 until 1963, and his death was a gripping, immense experience, one of the first such shared cultural moments. However, his effect on the trajectory of civil rights and the space program, and the eloquence with which he expressed those goals, would survive him. Less than a year before his death, Kennedy resolved that America must go to the moon, to challenge "the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished."
4. The Beatles
It's really not possible to overstate the Beatles' significance. They're the best-selling group in the history of American music, Rolling Stone's greatest artist of all time. Their immense, unprecedented popularity neatly coincides with the decade (they adopted their name in 1960 and disbanded in 1970), leaving their body of work as an immensely successful, groundbreaking, iconic statement on the atmosphere and social climate of the time period.
5. Bob Dylan
As a musician, Bob Dylan invites as many reverent adjectives as critics can muster: he's lauded as the "intrepid guiding spirit" of his generation (Time) with "extraordinary poetic power" (the Pulitzer jury), and is No. 2 on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest artists of all time. One biographer places him alongside Mozart and Shakespeare. All this praise is due not just to his musical talent, but to his enormous impact on his genre and American culture. During the '60s he marched for civil rights and penned protest songs, all the while guiding the future of popular music.
1. Martin Luther King Jr.
King is revered in too many ways to list: second only to Mother Teresa in Gallup's list of admired people, a Nobel Peace Prize, a federal holiday, and 700 streets named after him. He is the single most prominent civil rights figure in U.S. history, and he maintained his commitment to nonviolence and his steadfast dedication through never-ending harassment and death threats, even in his prescient speech the day before his assassination: "I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm so happy tonight."
2. Neil Armstrong
When Kennedy made that declaration, he also acknowledged its challenges, calling the space program "the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." Armstrong was accustomed to danger -- he'd flown in Korea, and as an experimental test pilot -- but the 1969 moon landing was a new kind of milestone, a defining event for humanity, and the significance of its imagery is inexpressible. The medium on which it was broadcast made it a shared human experience, as significant as Kennedy's assassination, but redemptive, the improbable realization of his promise to land on the moon within the decade.
3. John F. Kennedy
Kennedy may have more writing dedicated to the tragedy of his death than the legacy of his presidency, and that's not terribly surprising -- he was president from 1961 until 1963, and his death was a gripping, immense experience, one of the first such shared cultural moments. However, his effect on the trajectory of civil rights and the space program, and the eloquence with which he expressed those goals, would survive him. Less than a year before his death, Kennedy resolved that America must go to the moon, to challenge "the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished."
4. The Beatles
It's really not possible to overstate the Beatles' significance. They're the best-selling group in the history of American music, Rolling Stone's greatest artist of all time. Their immense, unprecedented popularity neatly coincides with the decade (they adopted their name in 1960 and disbanded in 1970), leaving their body of work as an immensely successful, groundbreaking, iconic statement on the atmosphere and social climate of the time period.
5. Bob Dylan
As a musician, Bob Dylan invites as many reverent adjectives as critics can muster: he's lauded as the "intrepid guiding spirit" of his generation (Time) with "extraordinary poetic power" (the Pulitzer jury), and is No. 2 on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest artists of all time. One biographer places him alongside Mozart and Shakespeare. All this praise is due not just to his musical talent, but to his enormous impact on his genre and American culture. During the '60s he marched for civil rights and penned protest songs, all the while guiding the future of popular music.
Extraordinary Fashion Photography Taken by Horst P. Horst From Between the 1930s and 1960s
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| Horst P Horst directing lights and cameras before a fashion shoot with Lisa Fonssagrives, 1949. Photograph: Roy Stevens/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images |
In the history of twentieth-century fashion and portrait photography, Horst's contribution figures as one of the most artistically significant and long lasting, spanning as it did the sixty years between 1931 and 1991. During this period, his name became legendary as a one-word photographic byline, and his photographs came to be seen as synonymous with the creation of images of elegance, style and rarefied glamour.
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| Model Muriel Maxwell putting on lipstick. American Vogue cover, 1 July 1939. |
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| Dinner suit and headdress by Schiaparelli, 1947. |
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| Marlene Dietrich, New York, 1942. |
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| Dress by Hattie Carnegie, 1939. |
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| Corset by Detolle for Mainbocher, 1939. |



































