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

Because You're Mine

Alan Price (the organist from The Animals) solo work from 1966

Mountain High

Beasties Raw on the Joan Rivers Show

Beastie Boys perform on the Joan Rivers Show, 1986.  The line-up included Gene Hackman, Sally Jessy Raphael, and Mafia princess Antoinette Giancana.

Hungry Men

Sea of Love : Jacques-Yves Cousteau

"The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish"

"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course"

Jacques Cousteau and crew aboard the Calypso for National Geographic in the 1950s.

"A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it"

Snake Charmers

X Marks The Spot

Exene Cervenka & John Doe

X the Band

Double Exposure

Polaroid Portrait by Dustin Hollywood

Double Exposure / Found Photograph circa 1950

Polaroid Portrait by Polaboid

On The River

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Sketcher of unknown mountains, 1961.

Hi from Rye

Rye, NY (1974)

Into The Wild

Gold wire-rimmed P3 glasses at Mt. Shasta long ago, 1950.

It is not supposed to be easy, that is the whole point!

Hand-tinted glass lantern slides, circa 1937, of mountaineers in camp during the ascent of Mount Logan, Yukon (above), and mountaineers and serac at the end of a glacier in the Canadian Rockies (below).

At the base of the mountain, 1948.

Approaching Ben Lui in the Highlands of Scotland, Easter, 1965.

The "Brocken Spectre" meteorological optical phenomena at Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, 1968. The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind the observer, who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog.

...I had a dream which both frightened and encouraged me. It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment... Suddenly I had the feeling that something was coming up behind me. I looked back, and saw a gigantic black figure following me... When I awoke I realized at once that the figure was a "specter of the Brocken," my own shadow on the swirling mists, brought into being by the little light I was carrying.

- Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Back from the Tomb : Egyptian Lover

Greg Broussard (Egyptian Lover) in Cazal 951.

He is also referred to as "The King of Ecstasy"

In the eighties, Egyptian Lover gained notoriety by revealing the secret ceremonies of the Ancient pyramids to the West Coast, and re-enacting them within the L.A. hip-hop scene.

Pipes on Parade

Marine biology students collecting samples in North Carolina, 1950s.

Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe in Connecticut with their dog Hugo, 1956.

Sea outing in Massachusetts by Nick DeWolf, 1957.

He's Just Not That Into You

Pleasant Hills High School, 1974.

It is O.K. To Love Billy Joel

We totally won't judge you. Or make fun of you or anything like that. We accept him, and we accept his thoughtful contributions to music video culture. He's totally not a dork.

Yes Billy, we love you just the way you are!

Kool Keith

Advanced Sunglass Styles of Keith Richards

But I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming
I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping

Feel so hypnotized, can't describe the scene
Feel so mesmerized all that inside me

Time Stands Still For Us

Snapshots of a Swedish vacation from the 1950s.