The second of today’s posts featuring old photos is a series containing 95 photos taken during the Civil War. The Civil War has become sort of an abstract event for me. It’s one of those things that I’ve read about, learned about, researched, etc. – but it doesn’t quite seem real. It’s too difficult to imagine a time when people in America owned other people, a time when a war was fought in my own...
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I love stumbling across collections of old photographs, and this series depicting the streets of London in 1876-1877 is really cool. The photos were posted on the Flickr stream of the British Library of Political and Economic Science and give us a glimpse into what life was like in 1870s London. As far as I can tell, people took beards way more seriously back then, which, as a bearded man myself, I can respect. Also, in one of the pictures,...
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Below are some fantastic historical photos of New York City from the New York Historical Archives. I don’t know what it is about old photographs, but they make me feel connected to the past somehow, as if it suddenly becomes real when I can see the faces and places. These are particularly cool photos, as many of them show the construction of bridges and buildings we’re so used to seeing nowadays. For some reason I never think...
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This photo series by Jacob Sutton is really bizarre / awesome. It’s a bit cliche to say that photos are ‘haunting’ – but I don’t know any other way to describe these underwater portraits. They’re very ghostly and ominous, yet at the same time feel serene. I go back and forth between trying to decide if the girl just drowned or perhaps if she’s just slipped into a dream. Cool effect, I wish there...
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I love animals. To give you an idea of how much I love animals, when I was in Chicago this past weekend, I went to the aquarium AND the zoo. So when I saw these awesome black and white photos of animals, I had to share them. Not surprisingly, the zebras look great in black and white. I think, however, I’m more in awe of the lions and giraffes. Hell, I like them...
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When I saw this photo, I initially thought, ‘Meh.’ Then I began to scroll down. As I scrolled, my eyes got wider, my bottom jaw eased ever so slightly toward the floor, and a feeling of pure joy swept over me. If you scroll fast enough, it’s like an animation. My only complaint is that it’s too big to use as my Facebook...
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