Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

30 November 2008

Kids Play Among The Ruins Of Wrigley Field In Los Angeles, California 1969



Title: Children play among the ruins of Wrigley Field in Los Angeles (Calif.)
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: March 21, 1969
Subjects: American baseball players
African American children
Evans, Stanley
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Thompson, Kenneth
Urban renewal
Wrecking
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Genre: News photographs
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Photo ID: uclamss_1429_b630_250689
Copyright contact: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988

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29 November 2008

Multi-Armed Photographer Clowning, Geneva Switzerland Photo By Hank Walker



Photographer wearing coat with second man buttoned inside, giving weird effect of four-armed man holding camera, during Geneva Conference.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date taken: July 1955
Photographer: Hank Walker
Size: 878 x 1280 pixels (12.2 x 17.8 inches)

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28 November 2008

Photographer John Shearer On Assignment, Attica Uprising, New York, 1971



Photographer John Shearer on assignment outside Attica prison during a prisoner riot and uprising.
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 843 x 1280 pixels (11.7 x 17.8 inches)

Narratives From The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, and further: Attica Revisited.

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"Cabinets" For Bodies "Identified" As "John Doe" From The Riots At Attica, September 1971



Closeup of cabinets for bodies and labels which indentify them as "John Doe".
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 1280 x 841 pixels (17.8 x 11.7 inches)

I was pretty young when this happened, but I remember that the Attica Uprising lingered in the collective consciousness for a long time, and was only later forgotten as a tragedy and injustice. More information, here.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt (C) On Assignment Kyoto, Japan 1946



Two geisha women praying for good luck at the Shinto Shrine in the garden of Ichi Riki, the geishaya that is their home & place of employment.
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Date taken: February 28, 1946
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Size: 1062 x 1280 pixels (14.8 x 17.8 inches)

Photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, posing for picture w. three geisha girls. Labels:
Photographers, Photography, Japan, People And Customs, Japanese, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Fashions, News, Vintage Print, Women, 1940s
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Date taken: February 28, 1946
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Size: 1005 x 1280 pixels (14.0 x 17.8 inches)

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