Stunning Fashion Photography by Walter Carone in the Early 1950s

Italian-French photographer Walter Carone (1920–1982) learned photography at his father's studio. His father moved from Italy to Cannes, France, where he opened a photographic studio for weddings, confirmations and other festive occasions.

In 1945, Carone moved to Paris, equipped only with a camera and some film. He started his photographic career by working for different magazines (Ciné-vie, Elle, France-Dimanche, Point de vue), but succeeded only when he started his work at Paris Match, that was first published in 1949.

It is important to tell that Paris Match from that period had very little in common with today's yellow pages magazine with the same name. His motto was Le poids des mots, le choc des photos (the weight of words and the shock of the pictures) and before the expansion of television, his photo reportages were the only source of current events.

Carone made approximately 200 reportages per year. At the magazine he begun as a photo reporter, later the editor of photography and finished as the assistant chief editor.

At the end of the 1960s, Carone wanted to share his talent and knowledge with fans of photography. He first founded the magazine Photo, and later Photo Journal. He is also the author of various books for photo-amateurs.

Here below is part of Walter Carone's work in the early 1950s.

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Photos of the Real Bonnie and Clyde of the Notorious Barrow Gang Photographed by W.D. Jones, 1933

Bonnie and Clyde met in Texas in January, 1930. At the time, Bonnie was 19 and married to an imprisoned murderer; Clyde was 21 and unmarried. Soon after, he was arrested for a burglary and sent to jail. He escaped, using a gun Bonnie had smuggled to him, was recaptured and was sent back to prison. Clyde was paroled in February 1932, rejoined Bonnie, and resumed a life of crime.

In addition to the automobile theft charge, Bonnie and Clyde were suspects in other crimes in several states. At the time they were killed on May 23, 1934, they were believed to have committed 13 murders, kidnappings, several robberies and burglaries.

These pictures were from undeveloped film found at their Joplin, Missouri hideout taken by W.D. Jones, also a member of the Barrow Gang. They left the hideout and many possessions behind after a shootout with the police, which resulted in the death of 2 police officers.

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“The light has gone out of my life” – Teddy Roosevelt’s Diary Entry on the Day Both His Wife and Mother Died, 1884

On Valentine’s Day of 1884, just 36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Alice (named after her mother), 25-year-old future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt held his young wife in his arms as she passed away from undiagnosed Bright’s disease. Incredibly, just hours before, in the same house, he had already said a final goodbye to his mother, Martha. She had succumbed to Typhoid, aged just 48.

It was February 14, 1884 – St. Valentine’s Day – and the fourth anniversary of Theodore’s engagement to his beloved wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. Roosevelt had been called by telegram back to New York City from Albany where he was a New York State Assemblyman. The concern was his mother’s fading health. Alice had just given birth to a baby girl two days earlier.

But by the time Theodore reached his home at 6 West Fifty-Seventh Street, Alice’s condition had taken a serious downward turn. He was greeted at the door by his brother, Elliott, who ominously told him that “there is a curse on this house.” And so it seemed. Roosevelt’s not yet 50 year old mother, Mittie, was downstairs burning up with a fevor from typhoid. And upstairs, his beloved Alice, scarcely able to recognize him was dying of undiagnosed Bright’s disease.

Mittie Roosevelt (mother) and Alice Roosevelt (wife)

Around three o’clock in the morning of February 14, Mittie passed away. Theodore then raced to be with Alice who lasted for another eleven hours before she, too, died, at 22 years of age.

Roosevelt was devastated, as would be anyone facing the loss of mother and wife in the same day. That day, he placed a large “X” in his diary and wrote only that “the light has gone out of my life.”

Theodore Roosevelt simply wrote an “X” above one striking sentence: “The light has gone out of my life”, 1884.

In a short, privately published tribute to Alice, Roosevelt wrote:

“She was beautiful in face and form, and lovelier still in spirit; as a flower she grew, and as a fair young flower she died. Her life had been always in the sunshine; there had never come to her a single great sorrow; and none ever knew her who did not live and revere her for the bright, sunny temper and her saintly unselfishness. Fair, pure, and joyous as a maiden; loving, tender, and happy as a young wife; when she had just become a mother, when her life seemed to be just begun, and when the years seemed so bright before her – then, by a strange and terrible fate, death came to her. And when my heart’s dearest died, the light went from my life for ever.”

And that was all he wrote then or ever. He blotted Alice out of his life never even mentioning her in his autobiography. It was simply too painful for him to remember the joy and light that he and Alice had enjoyed together.

Roosevelt left his infant daughter, Alice, in New York with his sister, Bamie. Too pained to mention her given name, he instead referred to her as Baby Lee. It was the beginning of a strained and somewhat distant relationship between father and daughter.

Before He Was Bond, Sean Connery Once Finished Third in Mr. Universe Competition in 1953

Sean Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British army. While his official website claims he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class or failing to place in the Tall Man classification.

Connery stated that he was soon deterred from bodybuilding when he found that the Americans frequently beat him in competitions because of sheer muscle size and, unlike Connery, refused to participate in athletic activity which could make them lose muscle mass.

In his early 20s after he had returned to Edinburgh from a three-year stint in the Royal Navy, Connery had worked through a succession of deadend jobs and had enrolled at a gym on the Royal Mile when he was selected by the college for life classes.

Connery was one of a group of models from a weightlifting club. He followed one of his friends who had started modeling at the college and had then got his friends involved.

Former art student John Houston, one of a talented group of students, told The Times: “It was a paid job and most of them stayed for six months or a year. They would be involved in day classes twice a week, holding the same pose and working from 9.30am until 4.00pm. I vaguely remember drawing Connery, but he made no great impression.”

Soon afterwards, Connery moved to London to pursue the acting career in which he would be cast as James Bond in Dr No, which was released in 1962.

Beautiful Photos of Debbie Harry in 1978 Taken by Martyn Goddard

Martyn Goddard became part of the New Wave music scene of the seventies, working with acts such as Blondie, The Jam, Sham 69 and The Cure to name a few. He has contributed or staged several photography exhibitions, "Blondie in Camera 1978" and The Jam "About the Young Idea" 2015.

In the late 1970s, Goddard was invited to contribute to The Sunday Telegraph magazine where he was assigned portrait and feature shoots with some of the great personalities of the arts world, while at the same time shooting for the iconic Car magazine producing automotive and travel stories. In recognition of his images, becoming a Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photography in 1987.

In recent years, Goddard has moved to a digital platform, becoming an active photo-blogger and content provider a producing travel features and images for Media groups in UK, Europe and USA, in addition to cataloguing and preserving his extensive archive rock bands and musicians.

These beautiful photos of Debbie Harry that Goddard took in 1978 are part of his work.

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20 Nostalgic Portraits of River Phoenix With Long Hair

Beverly Hills golden boy and teen heartthrob to boot, River Phoenix is the baby-faced icon famously lost before his time. Widely applauded for his role in coming-of-age drama Stand By Me, River starred in an impressed 24 feature films before his death aged 23.

Famed for his natural dark and glossy blonde do’, River briefly sported several cropped styles during his career but is best known for favoring longer locks. Usually tucked behind the ears and charmingly unkempt, River’s carefree look is instantly recognizable as his own – making him one of our ultimate male hair muses!