Budapest, Hungary photographed at night from the International Space Station. Amid the lights of the capital city is the dark string of the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river. Budapest’s metropolitan area spans 525 square km and […]
Passing through
Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Bridge was used for electric trains from 1895 until 1958. This was the only 4 track bridge in Chicago’s history. Most sites seem to call it a Jackknife bridge for […]
A Japanese Girl
A Japanese Girl (1918) by Jacob Kramer (1892 – 1962), Ukrainian-born painter who spent all of his working life in England.
Akita
Tokyo’s Shibuya station with the Hachiko statue in the late 1930s. The small bronze Hachiko statue may not appear particularly impressive however, it is still Shibuya’s main meeting point. The original statue sculpted by Teru […]
Best Actresses
Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the 1956 Academy Awards. They both won the Best Actress Award in previous years. Audrey Hepburn won for ‘Roman Holiday’ in 1953 while Grace Kelly won for ‘The […]
Captain Monroe
Marilyn Monroe with Norman Rosten and his friends | Long Island, 1955 Poet Norman Rosten and his wife, Hedda, accompanied Marilyn Monroe the last seven years of her life. In fact, as time went on […]
Millecinquecento
The Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500 were manufactured from 1961 to 1967. They were essentially identical except for their engine displacement, as indicated by their model names. They were available as a saloon and station […]
Modena
Aldo Rossi designed his cemetery for a competition in 1971. The scheme was reworked in 1976 before construction could begin in 1978, although as it stands, the vivid orange colored building is only partially completed […]
Hello Darkness
Sounds of Silence | Simon and Garfunkel | 1966
Levitating
Levitating Cat | Javier Mayoral, 2020 | Acrylic on panel, 8 x 9.5 in
Maria on Christina
Maria Callas on the Onassis yacht ‘Christina’ with Mr and Mrs Churchill | 1957
Liberation
Paris after the Liberation | Lee Miller | 1944
Spa-Francorchamps
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | 1960 Designed in 1920 the original course used public roads between the Belgian towns of Francorchamps, Malmedy, and Stavelot. Located in the Belgian Ardennes countryside, the old circuit was used as […]
Roman by Bruce
Roman Polanski | Bruce Davidson | New York, 1963
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