Negative Positive : Walker Evans Self-Portrait in Sunglasses

Self-Portrait in Sunglasses Before Bookshelf, 48 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Walker Evans, 1929.

From the Walker Evans Archive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Substance of The Thing Felt : Edward Steichen

 

A portrait of photographer Edward Steichen by Yousuf Karsh (1965)

Triumph of the Egg (1921)

Loretta Young (1932)

View the Steichen photograph collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Paul and Grace Hartman (1936)

 

 Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France (1914)

Orbital Maneuvers : Wives of NASA's Project Gemini Space Program

Five days after the Soviet Spacewalk, several astronaut’s wives watch in tremendous anticipation as the first Gemini lifts off with its two man crew. Love this, a broad brushstroke of expression and emotion, much more than just one moment captured here, these faces beam back all the pride, thrill, terror and raw astonishment the Space Program can present.

Or maybe it’s a just a summer snapshot with the greatest collection of 60′s sunglasses ever captured by camera. (From Sci-Fi-O-Rama)

Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966. Its objective was to develop space travel techniques in support of Apollo, which had the goal of landing men on the Moon.

Sarah Moon by Martine Franck

French photographer and filmmaker Sarah Moon as photographed by Martine Franck in 1983 in Paris.  At the time, Moon was producing her book, Les Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood).

Light and Shadow: Compositions of Jaromir Funke

Jaromir Funke photographed by Josef Sudek in Prague, 1924.

Composition (1932) from the Time Persists Cycle

Composition of the Sphere (1927)

Composition (1927)

Woke Up But I'm Still Dreaming : Visions of Juan O'Gorman

Self-Portrait (1950) by Mexican muralist and architect Juan O'Gorman.  He is known for designing Casa Azul (The Blue House) for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

  

Mosaic mural on the exterior of the UNAM Library in Mexico City by O'Gorman in 1953.  The stone details decorate all four façades of the structure, depicting aspects of Aztec culture and the creation of modern Mexico.

 

O’Gorman’s own house outside Mexico City (1953–56, demolished 1969) was considered his most extraordinary work. It was in part a natural cave and was designed to harmonize with the lava formations of the landscape.

 
Decorated with mosaic symbols and images from Aztec mythology, it marked his eventual rejection of Functionalism in favor of an approach that united modern structural designs with indigenous Mexican decorative motifs.

In 1958, Juan O'Gorman was photographed by pioneering architectural historian Esther McCoy on his visit to the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.  McCoy promoted the work of O'Gorman in California, organizing a solo exhibition for him in 1958 at the Long Beach Museum of Art. 

Rome Flea Market (I)

Street photography by Robert Rauschenberg, 1952.  

From the Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection.