Fashion of a woman, wearing a long gown, floating in water, Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, 1947. Toni Frissell (1907-88) was one of the greatest photographers…
Salvador Dali once appeared as the mystery guest on a long-time-ago TV show called What’s My Line? in the 1950s. You know the show, the…
I’m reliably told that photographs are polysemous–that is they have multiple meanings which can change depending on mood or understanding of what the image represents.…
‘Children and Spastics’ (1946). Looking at George Tooker’s painting “Subway” (1950), with its central figure of a woman (possibly pregnant) walking among the clean, cold,…
The question is often asked by our dear readers as to why some images are pixelated on social media? “We all got nipples,” they might…
The writer and director Cameron Crowe recently tweeted an impressive piece of pop culture history. It was a photograph of the correspondence between Francis Coppola…