27 rue de Fleurus, the apartment of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, a Saturday evening in autumn 1924. The walls of the ...
The Condé Nast studio on Lexington Avenue, an afternoon in late 1928. Greta Garbo sits on a wooden stool against a black backdrop. ...
Lexington Avenue, late afternoon, October 23, 1929. A small crowd gathers near the construction site at 42nd Street, watching what looks at first ...
An Okeh Records studio in Chicago, the morning of Thursday, June 28, 1928. Louis Armstrong walks in carrying his cornet. Earl Hines sits ...
A supper club in Detroit, a Saturday in 1925. A girl in a beaded sleeveless dress is doing the Charleston on a wooden ...
West 52nd Street, October 1925. A man in a navy three-piece suit, soft fedora, two-tone Oxfords, and a pocket watch chain across the ...
Chicago, October 1924. A nineteen-year-old typist walks into a beauty parlor on the third floor of a Loop department store, sits in a ...
A 1925 portrait studio. A woman’s head against a black backdrop. The key light catches a series of polished S-shapes pressed flat against ...
Tattoo art has always been illustration. The image made permanent in skin is a drawing — a composition of line, shadow, and form ...
There is a particular kind of person who looks extraordinary in real life and consistently disappoints in photographs. The charisma is there in ...