A small selection of the 60 colorama wide screen (80×18 foot) photographs – The World’s Largest Photographs – Kodak displayed at Grand Central station in New York City (1950-1990). Song for today: Nouvelle Vague – Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
Food Maps created from national foods by photographer Henry Hargreaves and food stylist Caitlin Levin. http://henryhargreaves.com/#food-maps-2 Song for today: Patsy Cline – Hungry for Love
Song for today: Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine
“… there’s no such thing as happy endings, only happy intervals and inevitable conclusions, and an author must choose whether to follow a story to its inevitable conclusion or draw the curtain at a happy interval.” Rue McClanahan in My First Five Husbands… and the Ones Who Got Away
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), street photographer.
“The man who has no imagination, has no wings” – Mohammed Ali Song for today: Curtis Mayfield – We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
Nadezdha Popova (1921 – 2013) Russian WW2 Fighter pilot Song for today: Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
For the first time in over 120 years the Netherlands no longer have a Queen…. Song for yesterday: Kathy Brier – Some Of These Days
* These photographs are part a collection of vintage mugshots at the Historic Houses Trust. Song for today: Regina Spektor – My Man
