What did women wear in the 1950s? Attending Hot August Nights, the largest classic car show in the west, has inspired me to take a look at 1950s fashion for women. My husband and I usually dress up in vintage or repro '50s clothes before going out to see all the cars. Sadly, not very
Sunny Hartnet was a fashion model, actress, and casting director. Her real name was Annemarie Margot Elfreda. Sunny Harnett only appeared in only one movie, "Funny Face" as an ash blonde. Although she was one of the most successful magazine models of the 1950s.
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897 – 1969) is regarded as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. In the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for his fashion photography, working for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and also for artistic nude photography. “Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.” Erwin Blumenfeld (via Shooting Film)
Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light Документальный фильм (США, 1996) Режиссер: Хелен Уитни Vividly portrayed in this American Masters Special, photographer Richard Avedon shoots for two different worlds. Primarily, he is a fashion photographer, having worked for various magazines for more than 50…
This image is being shared described as showing a rather glamorous diner waitress in the 1950s. It doesn’t. What it does show is a famous actress pretending to be a waitress in a movie from t…
Showgirls play chess between shows, New York, 1958
THE Second World War left Britain on the brink with people forced to tighten their purse strings and save any money they could. But by the 1950s, new low-cost housing sprung up around the country a…
A new book collects photographs of male romance over the course of a century – with many images taken secretively so the lovers didn’t get caught
Charles H. Traub passed his lunchtimes in the late '70s taking portraits with a Rolleiflex.
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