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gsol91 asked: Stunning collection! Are these all from life magazines? Do you collect these images for any particular reason?

Thanks! A great number of the pictures are from Life Magazine, but not all of them. I like old photos, especially the ones from Paris-France (my hometown). I have no particular reason for collecting them. I just browse and when a pic strikes a chord I post it here.

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Ruth Orkin - The Card Players (1/4) West Village, New York, USA, 1940s.
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Ruth Orkin - The Card Players (2/4) West Village, New York, USA, 1940s.
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Ruth Orkin - The Card Players (3/4) West Village, New York, USA, 1940s.
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Ruth Orkin - The Card Players (4/4) West Village, New York, USA, 1940s.
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jbuckford asked: Without question the most astonishing, joyful, painful, tragic and wondrous place I have ever visited on this planet. Thank you.

Oh My… I am speechless! What a great compliment!!

Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you!!!!!

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Barefoot girl knitting a sweater Japan, 1920s.
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Journalist Katharine Whitehorn carries her luggage along a foggy London street Photographer: Bert Hardy (Picture Post/Getty Images) London, England, 1956. Original Publication: Picture Post - Big City Loneliness
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A man feeding seagulls on the Thames Embankment London, England, 1929. Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images
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German painter Anton Räderscheidt, leading figure of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). This artistic movement emerged in 1918. Characterized by a desire to represent the real unvarnished “from observation and judgment,” it tends to be a cold mirror of the corrupted and unhealthy society of the postwar period. The artists of the New Objectivity will be singled out as “degenerate artist” by the regime Nazi . This is also why the movement died in 1933, with the arrival of Hitler to power. Photographer: August Sander Bismarckstrasse (at 6 am when the street was empty), Cologne, Germany, 1927.
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Starving child holding out an empty rice bowl during famine Photographer: George Silk China, 1946. © Time Inc.
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Two Colorado girls still able to draw water from a well amidst the storms raging through the “Dust Bowl”. Photographer unknown Colorado, USA, 1935. © Time Inc.
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Mother and children with popcorn Photographer: Russel Lee National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, USA, October 1938.
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Bernard J. “Boompy” Logue on his home made bicycle 2527 E. Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, c.1920.
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