Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads: 36 Stunning Photos Capture Rural Life of Eastern England From the 1880s

Peter Henry Emerson (1856–1936) was a British photographer. He specialized in scenes of rural life. Some of his photos are obviously staged, while others look more candid.

He bought his first camera in 1881 or 1882 to be used as a tool on bird-watching trips with his friend, the ornithologist A. T. Evans. In 1885 he was involved in the formation of the Camera Club of London, and the following year he was elected to the Council of the Photographic Society and abandoned his career as a surgeon to become a photographer and writer.

Initially influenced by naturalistic French painting, he argued for similarly "naturalistic" photography and took photographs in sharp focus to record country life as clearly as possible. His first album of photographs, published in 1886, was entitled Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, and it consisted of 40 platinum prints that were informed by these ideas. Before long, however, he became dissatisfied with rendering everything in sharp focus, considering that the undiscriminating emphasis it gave to all objects was unlike the way the human eye saw the world.

1885. "A Sailing Match at Horning."

1886. "The Old Order and the New."

1886. "The Haunt of the Pike."

1886. "Quanting the Marsh Hay."

1886. "A Rushy Shore."

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62 Amazing Vintage Magic Lantern Slides of Everyday Life in India during the 1900s

Here is an amazing collection of rare vintage magic lantern slides that shows everyday life around India including West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan in the 1900s.

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Pretty Mogas in the 1920s: Interesting Vintage Photos That Show Japanese Women Fashion in the Westernized Era

Modern girls, also shortened to moga, were Japanese women who followed Westernized fashions and lifestyles in the 1920s. These moga were Japan's equivalent of America's flappers, Germany's neue Frauen, France's garçonnes, or China's modeng xiaojie.

And here is what mogas looked like in the 1920s.

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Rare and Intimate Photos Give Us a Peek Into KISS' Backstage, and See How They Applied Makeup Before Concerts From Their Early Years

In the early 1970s, two members of New York rock band Wicked Lester, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, struck out to start a new group. They recruited drummer Peter Criss and guitarist Ace Frehley, and by early 1973 had settled on a name — KISS.

From their early days, KISS took to the stage with striking black and white makeup. Each man’s makeup reflected a character and personality: Stanley’s heady romantic “Starchild,” Simmons’ twisted and cynical “Demon,” Criss’ nine-lived “Catman,” and Frehley’s extraterrestrial “Space Ace.”

Waring Abbott is one of the music industry’s premier photographers. He worked closely with KISS for eight years. These candid photographs were taken by Abbott in circa 1975 show how KISS applied makeup before concerts.

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A Gallery of 75 Stunning Hand-Colored Slides of an Old Moscow in 1931

From between 1921 and 1941 photographer and travelogue lecturer Branson DeCou traveled all over the world, and took about 8 thousand glass slides, not only on the historical monuments but also on the everyday life of the visited cities.

These pictures below are unique not only because of their fascinating atmosphere or the attentive representation of street life and faces. But also because perhaps this was the last moment when the old Moscow could be seen still intact and without the erosion of the following decades.

Stalin had just recently blocked the new economic policy announced ten years earlier, and the period of collectivization and repressions as well as of the Socialist transformation of Moscow began.

On almost each of the following pictures we see – for the last time – monuments that did not survive the end of the '30s.

The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Kamenny Most.

The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Most.

The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Most.

The Mosvkoretskaya street and the Vasilevsky spusk from the Moskvoretsky bridge.

Kremlin, Granovitaya Palace.

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16 Wonderful Color Photos Capture Stockholm in 1970

These wonderful photos were taken by American photographer Roger when he traveled to Stockholm in his five-week European trip in 1970.

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1980s: The Period of Women's Rock Hairstyles Boom

1980s hair was big, bold, and never boring. From mile-high bangs to crimped hair to ultra curly perms, 80s styles were about self expression. Teased hair, big hair punk rock looks, neon streaks of color, and dramatic accessories like plastic headbands with madonna-inspired black lace bows were all part of the 80s hair looks.

The 1980s era produced a lot of hairstyles which were very funk and odd in some stylish ways. You can say that it is considered the perfect example of how fashion and hairstyles can get bigger. And here is what you could see about hairstyles of women in the 1980s.

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