1892 photo shows perching children on water lilies

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Thursday 9 May 2013

It wasn’t that long ago that we sniffed out this 1938 picture of a massive water lily lifting a dainty little kitten, so it’s funny to see the bar has raised with an even earlier photo dated 1892 showing even more of these giant water lilies lifting an entire family of kids in North Carolina [...]

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The 1930s-40s in full colour

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Wednesday 28 November 2012

We usually think of the Great Depression and World War II in black and white, so this collection of colour snaps by the Library of Congress really warrants a good flip-through. Lush and sparse at the same time, these slices of everyday life originally came in the form of colour transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm to 4” x 5”. They were captured by photographers working for the US government’s Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information departments.

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Portrait photos of Victorian husbands and wives

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Photography on Wednesday 31 August 2011

What’s kinda amazing about these photos which recently ran on the How To Be A Retronaut website is how similar the wives look to their hubbies. Must have been something in the water back then.

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