Showing posts with label auto/vehicle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label auto/vehicle. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2011
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Candid Portraits of LA Drivers
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Andrew Bush's Vector Portraits series, which was shot in the ’80s and ’90s, documents people from all walks of life driving cars in and around Los Angeles — complete with incredibly detailed captions. From a guy engrossed in his book while flying down Interstate 5 at 64 mph to a couple caught mid-kiss at the intersection of Cahuenga and Hollywood boulevards. [via]
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Speed Girls: the Bugatti Queen
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Hellé Nice was born as Helene Delangle near Chartres as daughter of a postmaster, moved to Paris as teenager, posed for naughty photographs sold to tourists, and soon became one of the most popular and best known dancing acts in Paris in the mid 1920s.
She started racing through contacts with members of the French motorsport world, like Baron Philippe de Rothschild, and Le Mans winner Henri de Courcelles. Hellé Nice successfully competed in Grand Prix and set multiple speed records in the 1930s in Bugatti’s and Alfa Romeo’s.
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She started racing through contacts with members of the French motorsport world, like Baron Philippe de Rothschild, and Le Mans winner Henri de Courcelles. Hellé Nice successfully competed in Grand Prix and set multiple speed records in the 1930s in Bugatti’s and Alfa Romeo’s.
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| Hellé Nice in an undated photograph (Jean-Pierre Poiter, Chelles, France/Random House) |
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| Hellé Nice after her victory in the 1929 Grand Prix Féminin which secured her a sleek Bugatti and the nickname ''The Speed Queen.'' |
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| Hellé Nice in Rio de Janeiro leading the field in her Alfa Romeo with No. 2. |
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Color photography of America in years before World War II [more...]
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| Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative. Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| African American’s tenant’s home beside the Mississippi River levee. Near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| A crossroads store, bar, “juke joint,” and gas station in the cotton plantation area. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| Boys fishing in a bayou. Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| Fish saler. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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Monday, July 11, 2011
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