Picasso begins a light drawing, by Gjon Mili, 1949. LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in 1949. Mili showed the artist some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates jumping in the dark — and Picasso’s mind began to race. The series of photographs that follows — Picasso’s light drawings — were made with a... - http://blog.gesteves.com/post...
Penn Station, from the New York Public Library. From Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York: Photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) proposed Changing New York, her grand project to document New York City, to the Federal Art Project (FAP) in 1935. The FAP was a Depression-era government program for unemployed artists and workers in related fields... - http://blog.gesteves.com/post...
North American P-51 Mustang in service with the Royal Air Force, by Mark Sherwood, from The Library of Congress, 1942. - http://blog.gesteves.com/post...
Dog riding a tricycle, from the National Media Museum, ca. 1905.
I tell you, The Commons is just full of brilliant stuff like this. - http://blog.gesteves.com/post...
Happy 4th of July to all my American friends! Have fun and enjoy your fireworks, hot dogs and freedoms, guys. Don’t ever take them for granted.
(Image via the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.) - http://blog.gesteves.com/post...
"At least you're not in Venezuela. Otherwise you'd have very non-secret police dragging you into the first flight out of the country."
- Guillermo Esteves