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Architect Richard Neutra’s “other” Kaufmann House built in Palm Springs, 1946– the first being Fallingwater, and yes– Frank Lloyd Wright’s feathers were indeed ruffled over this apparent snub when Pittsburgh department store magnate Edgar J. Kaufmann selected another architect for this project. Published in the LIFE Magazine feature “Glamourized Houses” in 1949. –Image by © Julius Shulman / J.Paul Getty Trust / Julius Shulman photography archive. “No other architect Shulman worked with was as controlling as Neutra. He would look through the viewfinder and adjust the camera, only to have Shulman move it back when he turned his head. Theirs was a battle of egos, of who was in charge of what and whom. This was never more so than when Shulman photographed the Kaufmann House on a 1947 evening. He set up inside as the sun began to fall behind the mountains, but to capture the fleeting dusk he decided to move outdoors. Neutra wanted him to stay put. Shulman ignored him and placed the tripod on the lawn facing west. As the sky darkened, the house glowed. For the next 45 minutes Shulman ran in and out of the glass house, switching lamps on and off, opening and closing the shutter to burn in the light. At the end of the exposure he asked Mrs. Kaufmann to stretch out on the deck. Who wouldn’t want to imagine themselves there? The photograph, its lights and darks forming a thousand shades of gray, the geometric lines of the house set against the jagged range, would become one of Shulman’s two most reproduced works.” –Mary Melton Read more…
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1943 — Many servicemen returning from WWII came home with the nagging feeling that the cookie-cutter lifestyle mainstream society was selling them (with the white picket fence, 2.5 kids, and a 9 t0 5 job) was not their “American Dream.” What they yearned for was an escape from the world’s hamster wheel mentality. For many, coming home didn’t mean settling in, it meant finding the thrill to replace what they felt was missing in everyday life. You had pilots who were looking to replace the thrill of flying, and GI’s who had ridden motorcycles in wartime coming home and buying Harley-Davidsons for the rush of freedom and speed they were so desperately craving. They also missed the camaraderie and brotherhood they had with their fellow soldiers at war, so many went out and formed motorcycle clubs. — Image by © Harley-Davidson Archives Read more…
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Fall is in the air… Old picture of Marilyn Monroe in selvedge denim jeans and jacket. Read more…
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BTC BRISTOL TATTOO CLUB | THE SKUSE FAMILY — GENERATIONS OF KILLER INK Read more…
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BTC BRISTOL TATTOO CLUB | THE SKUSE FAMILY — GENERATIONS OF KILLER INK Read more…
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PHOTOGRAPHY OF BOB MAGILL | EPIC IMAGES OF AMERICAN MOTORCYCLING Read more…
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THE FOREFATHERS OF TATTOOING | “CAP” COLEMAN & PAUL ROGERS Franklin Paul Rogers tattooing a sailor ~ ca. 1940s. Read more…
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Staged photo of Clarence Decker (left) used by Norman Rockwell for 1944′s The Tattooist. “Clarence didn’t have a single tattoo in real life. Also the last name on his arm is Betty– that’s because my great, great aunt Belle told Norman that if he put her name in the painting, she wouldn’t speak to him ever again. So Norman crossed the L’s and added a Y.” -Ross Mosher, the great, great nephew of Clarence Decker Read more…
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BOB MAGILL’S EPIC IMAGES OF AMERICAN MOTORCYCLING “Don & Marge Fera, 1940s. Back then, race bikes had hand-shifters, metal number plates and if your gal had nerve she showed just a hint of leg.”  –caption by Dean Adams Read more…
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THE WALL OF DEATH DAREDEVILS Unidentified lion and female Wall of Death driver, ca. 1930s or 1940s. Read more…
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THE TATTOOOIST, CIRCA 1944 Staged photo of Clarence Decker (left) used by Norman Rockwell for 1944′s The Tattooist. Read more…
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FOUR WHEELS MOVE THE BODY — BUT TWO WHEELS MOVE THE SOUL ca. 1943, UK — Major J.B. Joly and a wing of Canadian dispatch riders. — Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Read more…
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FOUR WHEELS MOVE THE BODY — BUT TWO WHEELS MOVE THE SOUL ca. 1949, UK — Sixteen-year-old Maureen Swift riding with ‘Tornado’ Smith around ‘The Wall of Death’ attraction in the Southend Kursaal to promote BSA motorcycles. – Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Read more…
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ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHER GORDON PARKS Gordon Parks (1912-2006) – photographer, artist, director, writer, activist, and musician. Read more…
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