The ruling marks a significant advancement for the rights of LGBT individuals, who have faced a long history of discrimination and oppression.
The pictures from the Historic England archive trace the country's transformation from 1839 when photography was invented to the present day.
Butoh avant garde dancers, Tokyo Read more about Japan's avant garde Butoh dance in my article: www.pripix.com/features/butoh.htm
Explore Adrian Zissos' 18570 photos on Flickr!
Evening West Rampart Street, Copenhagen by Paul Fischer (1860-1934)
Let’s be honest, it is very rare we come across photographers who shake us instantly, make us believe in the magic of photography at its very rawest again; photographers who get engraved in our hearts from the first sight to their work. Fan Ho was that kind of artist for me. At 84, he passed away from pneumonia on June 19, 2016 at a hospital in San Jose, California leaving us
These form part of a retrospective celebrating the work of renowned photographer Bert Hardy, who would have been 100 this year.
Take a look at this large and beautiful piece currently on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)! The suspended ocean goddess, entitled
This is another photograph by the Belgian photographer Leonard Misonne and dates from 1899, it shows the view from Lower Regent Street junction with Waterloo Place looking south across Pall Mall to the Duke of York Column. The Guards Crimean War Memorial is in the centre and the Athenaeum Club is at top right. The building on the left was demolished in 1909 and replaced with Cox's Bank, that same building is now a hotel.
This weekend, 75 years have passed since the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, witnessed her father King George VI leave Westminster Abbey wearing that same crown following his Coronation in the Abbey on May 12, 1937.
In 1901-2, Horace Warner took photos of East End street kids, who he called 'Spitalfields nippers'. Here's a selection of the rare ones that have survived to this day
... Sr. Mary Martha is holding a nun beauty contest.
My parents were in town the other week, so on a particularly beautiful September Sunday, my mum and I headed to Hyde Park to visit this year’s Serpentine Pavilion. The yearly structure is an event in the architecture world, as well as in the London cultural scene. (I previously wrote about London’s 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and, I must say, it’s still my favorite one.
The cloud 1912 The Edge of the Black Country 1907 The Octopus, 1912. Vortograph of Ezra Pound 1917 Ezra Pound 1917 Alvin Langdon Coburn was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 11th June, 1882. Coburn…
David Gaberle travelled the world for eight months in 2015 capturing street life and the way people interact in cities, from Tokyo to London, Batumi to New York
The Wassail (detail) 1900. One of the three panels for the ladies Luncheon Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms. Oil painted gesso on hessian and scrim, set with twine, glass beads, thread, mother-of-pearl, and tin leaf, panel. From the collection of Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Glasgow
The gramophone balanced on top of an old pram makes for an extraordinary, even amusing sight. But it's not so amusing to think about how this man has been reduced to earning a few coppers in this way. It's possible he was in the armed forces during world war one and now unemployed, we'll never know. Like some of the other people in this set of pictures, his story seems to be a very sad one, despite the British Empire being, in wealth and power, at its very zenith.
A busy Piccadilly in the late 1890s or very early 1900s. A moustachioed Police Constable directs traffic at the junction of Piccadilly, St. James's Street and Albemarle Street with Burlington House in the background.
Rubin Eynon's 8-foot bronze sculpture Gallos is partially inspired by King Arthur. It's placement on the cliffs of Tintagel is not without controversy.
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. :::…
Roadtrippers Magazine shines a light on the people, places, and road trips that perfectly intersect popular culture and the obscure.
The national garment cutter book of diagrams (1888) Ladies' Street Jacket 1888
[SAME CAPTION #1 - #5) Ca.1900-1915 photos of "Japan's Finest"....Prostitutes, that is. NOTE !!! The below caption, while historically accurate, contains sarcastic commentary about a certain aspect of Japan's glorified culture of prostitution. If sarcastic commentary about such a delicate subject is not your "thing", and offense is easily taken, I would advise you to avoid the below caption, and read a more SERIOUS commentary about the OIRAN and TAYUU here at this photo : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2701588987/in/set-7215... Called 'Courtesans" by those who don't like the word "Prostitute", Oiran is just another half-baked Japanese euphemism for "A Prostitute that Costs More than Other Prostitutes"...or in more eloquent terms, she is simply a "Damn Expensive Call Girl". "Call Girl" ? That's right. In fact, at certain times in Japan's illustrious history, she was put on public parade, as she walked from her bordello over to the the nearby "Hotel" where her wealthy "Patron" was waiting (after he had called her over via a perfunctory letter of invitation). And of course, Japan being Japan, she had her little parade of "future hopefuls" tag right along with her -- as seen in this picture, and many others that I've posted. Nowadays, they refer back to these little prostitutes-in-the making with the more politically correct "Ladies in Waiting", "Servant Girls", "Personal Assistants", "Pages", and what have you. In the Japanese language, these child "Prostitute Understudies" were called KAMURO, and were generally sold off to the brothels by their parents at the age of 5 or 6 to be RAISED AND TRAINED SPECIFICALLY TO BE PROSTITUTES. They actually got down to the business of doing what men expected them to do during what Westerners would call the "Middle School Years" --- MINUS THE "SCHOOL" PART OF IT. Well, they must have done a good Job, as Japanese "cultural pride" in this area has not abated, and there seems to be more prostitutes in Japan today then there ever were back then -- albeit the "official age" for engaging in prostitution is now 18. Please note that any and all "Anti-Prostitution Laws" of modern-day Japan are simply a facade to appease "Western Christian Nations" and United Nations members with whom Japan has political and economic ties. However, ADULT PROSTITUTION is not the focus of this caption. In the meantime, it's too bad they quit the Public Parade thing with all the little girls trailing behind (ahem) "MISS CONGENIALITY" like little ducklings. Oh, NO ! Who will the poor little girls of Japan turn to for a Role Model now ? But WAIT ! ALL IS NOT LOST ! Fortunately (?), some "re-creations" are still done in Kyoto and other hot-spots, where the die-hard "Cultural" types of local male citizenry try to hang onto those sweet memories of the good-old-days. You know......like when When FATHERS SOLD THEIR DAUGHTERS INTO PROSTITUTION ! These "LET'S PRESERVE OUR QUESTIONABLE CULTURE" nuts (some of them possibly connected to the Department of Education) occasionally get one of the local Bar Girls to put on a big wig full of shoe-horns and Lincoln-Logs (along with the appropriate foot-high clod-hoppers and three layers of bed-quilts), and strut her stuff for the picture-taking tourists....... as she carries the Banner of Erotic Love into the 21st Century. OH....did I just say NO MORE little girls join in with these ""Prostitute Culture Festivals" of today ??? OOOPS !!! Well, I can't always be right, you know ! See some colorful, MODERN-DAY "Get-'em-Hooked-While-They're-Young" photos right here on flickr -- just a few of many such photos to be found : www.flickr.com/photos/baaaal/2222306464/ and www.flickr.com/photos/tey-san/542722913/ and www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=Kamuro+Tayu&... FOR MORE OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS SEE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2333729757/ And even a 3-D OIRAN here !!! www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2474742195/ and other related flickr pics with a search of the word OIRAN. Here are some interesting links : gvnet.com/childprostitution/Japan.htm ......and GOD BLESS JAPAN. EXTRA BONUS LINK !!! For a modern-day, popular family festival that was once popular with prostitutes here in Japan, please go here and be enlightened : babibubebo.com/2008/04/07/kanamara-matsuri-festival-of-th...
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These fascinating pictures are some of the first ever taken of the city of Bristol. They were taken between 1850 and 1855 by photographer Hugh Owen and could fetch up to £30,000 at auction.
From egg gatherers in Yorkshire to the Holborn viaduct under construction, a book by the Historic England Archive brings together photos dating from 1850
Chinatown, February 12
Let’s be honest, it is very rare we come across photographers who shake us instantly, make us believe in the magic of photography at its very rawest again; photographers who get engraved in our hearts from the first sight to their work. Fan Ho was that kind of artist for me. At 84, he passed away from pneumonia on June 19, 2016 at a hospital in San Jose, California leaving us
