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hypothestacey: ET TU BRUTE??? Exactly what I was gonna write.

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:09:10 -0400

hypothestacey:

ET TU BRUTE???

Exactly what I was gonna write.

Le(s) maître(s) des vertus ?

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:06:45 -0400

Le(s) maître(s) des vertus ?

darksilenceinsuburbia: Magan Howland. Ennui. This is some...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:05:18 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Magan Howland. Ennui.

This is some weird shit I got on my dashboard.

derwolfsmantel: Photographs of a devastated post-war Berlin in...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:59:23 -0400

derwolfsmantel:

Photographs of a devastated post-war Berlin in the summer of 1945.

“When Allied observers came to Germany after the war, most of them expected to find destruction on the same scale as they had witnessed in Britain during the Blitz. Even after British and American newspapers and magazines began to print pictures and descriptions of the devastation it was impossible to prepare for the sight of the real thing. Austin Robinson, for example, was sent to western Germany directly after the war on behalf of the British Ministry of Production. His description of Mainz while he was there displays his sense of shock:

That skeleton, with whole blocks level, huge areas with nothing but walls standing, factories almost completely gutted, was a picture that I know will live with me for life. One had known it intellectually without feeling it emotionally or humanly.

British Lieutenant Philip Dark was equally apallaed by the apocalyptic vision he saw in Hamburg at the end of the war:

[W]e swung in towards the centre and started to enter a city devastated beyond all comprehension. It was more than appallaing. As far as the eye could see, square mile after square mile of empty shells of buildings with twisted girders scarecrowed in the air, radiators of a flat jutting out from a shaft of a still-standing wall, like a crucified pterodactyl skeleton. Horrible, hideous shapes of chimneys sprouting from the frame of a wall. The whole pervaded by an atmosphere of ageless quiet… Such impressions are incomprehensible unless seen.

Berlin was “completely shattered - just piles of rubble and skeleton houses.” Between 18 and 20 million German people were rendered homeless by the destruction of their cities - that is the same as the combined prewar populations of Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. These people lived in cellars, ruins, holes in the ground - anywhere they could find a modicum of shelter. They were entirely deprived of essential servies, such as water, gas, electricity - as were millions of others across Europe.”

(Text via Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe; photographs via)

derwolfsmantel: A couple walks down Dircksenstr., in the center...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:58:47 -0400

derwolfsmantel:

A couple walks down Dircksenstr., in the center of Berlin. The burning building behind them was nothing special in the chaotic days at the end of the war. (via)

derwolfsmantel: Marlene Dietrich’s return to Berlin in May,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:58:24 -0400

derwolfsmantel:

Marlene Dietrich’s return to Berlin in May, 1960 - fifteen years after the end of the war. (via)

indypendent-thinking: Das erste deutsche Micky Maus Heft aus...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:37:20 -0400

indypendent-thinking:

Das erste deutsche Micky Maus Heft aus September 1951

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did-you-kno: Source

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:36:10 -0400

did-you-kno:

Source

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Sun, 19 May 2013 13:34:37 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 13:33:47 -0400

photographs of american teenagers taken by joseph szabo,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:02:22 -0400

wild horses, 1979

anthony and joanne, 1988

tomahawk, 1973

friday night dance, 1973

dawn in her room, 1985

anthony and terry b, 1977

marianne and mary kay, 1976

priscilla, 1969

photographs of american teenagers taken by joseph szabo, 1969-1988.

nontarian: I couldn’t sleep so

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:01:07 -0400

nontarian:

I couldn’t sleep so

indypendent-thinking: Paris 1952 by Elliott Erwitt

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:42:03 -0400

indypendent-thinking:

Paris 1952 by Elliott Erwitt

ryanpanos: The vertical country of the second world. by Sergey...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:30:44 -0400

ryanpanos:

The vertical country of the second world. by Sergey Prokofyev

The term of classification of the world division into first, second and third appeared in the middle of the 20th century during the cold war. The countries of the first world were the democratic countries of the Northern Alliance. The countries of the second world were the countries of the Warsaw Agreement and the USSR, as well as the communist countries. The countries of the third world are the countries which failed to participate in the cold war directly, but still were the arena of rivalry. This classification was of political nature.

indypendent-thinking: Michiko, In Town, Tokyo, Japan, 1951

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:15:45 -0400

indypendent-thinking:

Michiko, In Town, Tokyo, Japan, 1951

I have to say I love all that vintage shit. It’s my...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:29:47 -0400

I have to say I love all that vintage shit. It’s my hipster side.

It’s a… wall

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:27:58 -0400

It’s a… wall

Coke Girl

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:26:08 -0400

Coke Girl

Sup

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:07:51 -0400

Sup

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Thu, 16 May 2013 16:42:47 -0400