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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and stylish, showing no respect for people in authority, saucy, pert, confident, chic. A couple on the street on Michigan Avenue, Chicago photographed by Perry Riddle in July 1975– Found in the National Archives ‘Traffic-Stopper’ Miss Mary Bay likes her car because it is easy to park. Miss Bay [...]
“It’s not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely wonderful time! I clutched my shawl to me because that sheaths the body. It was my protection, my shield. I was walking through a sea of men. I was enjoying every minute of it.” In fact, the American girl, Ninalee “Jinx” Allen [...]
Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue correspondent, Elizabeth (Lee) Miller was photographed taking a bath in his tub. Miller had been accredited into the U.S. Army as an official war correspondent for Condé Nast Publications and upon the American liberation of Munich, she entered the city with the 45th division and LIFE photographer [...]
A woman hitting a skinhead with her handbag, Sweden, 1985. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. Via imgur ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .
Sometimes I feel like there’s just too much photography of Paris; images we’ve seen time and again of the same monument, the same cobblestone street, the same wrought iron windows. But then I found the work of Getty photographer Gerard Hermand. He sees something most people don’t… Discover more of Gerard’s work on Flickr. ::: [...]
I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments out there, so I went looking, which resulted in this little post dedicated to preserved moments of historical sass! Submitted by Lisa Warninger to The Sartorialist: ‘The sassy woman in the saddle shoes is my grandma Lois. This [...]
Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic called FOUND, set up in honour of their 125th anniversary. What better way to celebrate a birthday than to go digging through one of the most interesting photographic archives in the world…. ‘FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic [...]
This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share. These snaps are a melange of photo stories by LIFE photographers, Nina Leen, Peter Stackpole and Cornell Capa between 1947-48 at the [...]
Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives [...]
“Switcheroo” is an ongoing series by Canadian photographer Hana Pesut, as she travels the world looking for couples happy to pose for her pictures. The work touches on some interesting ideas about gender identity and in some cases, the switcheroo even seems to suit them. Also an opportunity to check out other couples… [...]
sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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