A specific Thanksgiving week. November 26, 1942, the Hollywood Theatre on West 51st Street in Manhattan. Warner Bros. premieres Casablanca, eighteen days after ...
Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944, approximately 6:30 AM. Robert Capa wades ashore from a Higgins boat in the first wave at the Easy ...
Marseille, October 14, 1952. A new apartment building called the Unité d’Habitation opens its doors at 280 Boulevard Michelet in the eighth arrondissement ...
A specific evening in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. December 1, 1941, six days before Pearl Harbor. A family of five sits in the front ...
February 12, 1947, the salon of the new House of Dior at 30 Avenue Montaigne in the eighth arrondissement of Paris. The room ...
Spring 1942. A woman in a Macy’s dressing room on West 34th Street in Manhattan is holding up a dress that looks strangely ...
A specific 1943 morning. A woman in Akron, Ohio, ties a red cotton bandana over her hair in roughly thirty seconds at the ...
A morning in 1943. A woman in Detroit, Michigan, sits at a small vanity in a kitchen apartment, sectioning her hair before the ...
A wedding in any major American city, May 2025. A hotel ballroom or restored industrial space. The aisle runs between two rows of ...
Studio at 7 rue Méchain, Paris, sometime in early 1929. Tamara de Lempicka is working on what will become her most famous painting, ...