VOL.01
Just a photograph of your average Nazi rally in Hitler Germany. Or is it? At the launch of a German army vessel in 1936, attended by Adolf Hitler himself, the crowd was doing their best impression of brainwashed Nazi enthusiasts and saluting Der Fuhrer. But at a closer look, the photograph shows one man who [...]
This is a photo of an “elevator garage” taken in Chicago, 1936 by John Gutmann. It was part of a building that no longer exists on 33 W. Monroe Street and held up to 48 cars. It took 55 seconds for a car parked at the highest point of the garage to reach its owner [...]
The Gare Montparnasse became famous for the derailment on 22 October 1895 of the Granville–Paris Express, which overran the buffer stop. The engine careered across almost 30 metres (100 ft) of the station concourse, crashed through a 60-centimetre (2 ft) thick wall, shot across a terrace and smashed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de [...]
Few of us like to linger in the Paris metro, as charismatic as it is compared to other city’s subterranean transport, however this photo kind of stopped me in my tracks and gave me a new sense of respect for it. What might at first glance look like the belly of a great warship is [...]
This is a charming little photo series that I want to share with you by the ever-relevant French photographer, Robert Doisneau entitled the very long-winded Tableau de Wagner dans la vitrine de la Galerie Romi, rue de Seine, Paris 6e. Phew. Taken in 1948, when Doisneau could often be spotted wandering the streets of Paris [...]
“Just admit that it’s Photoshop”, people tell fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky when looking at his iconic photograph of model Simone D’Aillencourt landing in a glass bubble on the River Seine in Paris. “But it was 1963,” says Melvin who designed the bubble for the surreal Harper’s Bazaar magazine spring shoot. The plexiglass bubble was hung [...]
Last night I logged onto my Facebook and saw my newsfeed overwhelmed with status updates of London-based or British friends about how proud they were to be Londoners. The opening ceremony for the Olympics had just aired on television and the Queen had apparently made her entrance by parachuting out of a helicopter with James [...]
This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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Oscar night is here and over the next few days we’re going to be inundated with photographs
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(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…
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Just a photograph of your average Nazi rally in Hitler Germany. Or is it? At the launch of a German
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Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve seen quite a few obsolete buildings given new life through
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I found some rare autochrome photographs of Paris at the turn of the 20th century and thought you
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As a former Londoner, born & raised, who thought she knew everything there was to know about
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Paris and London: two indisputable capitals of cool. So why not make the connection between them be
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This is a charming little photo series that I want to share with you by the ever-relevant French
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“Just admit that it’s Photoshop”, people tell fashion photographer Melvin
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Hey folks, I’m back in Paris from my road trip, back on the blog and I’ll do my best to
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This is in fact the second annual Hipster Olympics (I don’t know how I dared miss the first
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We should all be taking a hike in our smallest shorts today …
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The Literati: A Tale of Three Cities When I need my fix of Britishness in Paris, I don’t look
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