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✖ Via Roberto Polillo photostream on Flickr: Abbey Lincoln, Milano, 1964
Abbey Lincoln, a singer whose dramatic vocal command and tersely poetic songs made her a singular figure in jazz, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 80 and lived on the Upper West Side.Her death was announced by her brother David Wooldridge. Ms. Lincoln’s career encompassed outspoken civil rights advocacy in the 1960s and fearless introspection in more recent years, and for a time in the 1960s she acted in films, including one with Sidney Poitier. (The New York Times: “Abbey Lincoln, Bold and Introspective Jazz Singer, Dies at 80” by Nate Chinen, August 14, 2010)

About photographer Roberto Polillo:

From 1962 (when I was 16) to 1974 I was lucky to photograph the most important jazz musicians of the time. These images have been almost hidden for many years, but recently I have made an outing… A selection of these images have been recently shown in personal exhibitions in Milano, Roma, Torino, Siena, Napoli, Genova, Verona and other places, and collected in a big photographic book, “Swing, Bop & Free” , which also cointains texts by my father Arrigo , who was a well known jazz critic and historician. (more)

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✖ Via Visual Culture: A Visual Showcase of Coffee Lids collected in the 1990’s. and early 00’s

The photo comes from sarcoptiform’s photostream on Flickr. Because the way those photos were taken and assemble (frontal shot, neutral gray shade) it’s reminiscent (in a way) of Bernd and Hilla Becher typology of water towers (Amazon, Wikipedia).

The two authors behind the blog Mrs. Dean, Norman Beierle and Hester Keijser, did a much more elaborated (and explicit) hommage to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s water towers series : Joghurtbecher. It’s a study ― Becher style ― of… yogurt cups. See example here. More about Joghurtbecher.


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Metropolis: All New Restauration ― Behin The Scenes

Seldom has the rediscovery of a cache of lost footage ignited widespread curiosity as did the announcement, in July 2008, that an essentially complete copy of Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS had been found. (more)


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✖ Via Lady, That’s My Skull: “The Soulless Entity” from Thrilling Wonder Stories #1 (January 1931). Art by Frank R. Paul.
He put the knife in the robot’s hand and caused the arm to raise. Then something went wrong.

Learn more about Thrilling Wonder Stories on Wikipedia


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✖ Via John Clendenen: no 13 from his Science Fiction series [click for hi-res]

Previously on Skandalon


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✖ Via Fotografía: Morrison by Elliot Landy, Hunter College, NYC, 1968.

About Elliot Landy:

Elliott Landy (born in 1942) is a photographer best known for his iconic photographs of rock musicians. A 1959 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, ten years later he was the official photographer of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. His photographs have appeared on the covers of such magazines as Rolling Stone, LIFE, and The Saturday Evening Post. Landy’s portraits have also graced the covers of many of the best known albums of the era, including such classics as Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, Van Morrison’s Moondance, and The Band’s second album, eponymously titled The Band. From 1967 to 1969, Landy travelled with and photographed Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. He has published several collections of his work. (wikipedia)

Check the same photo on his official website.


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400 Blows, François Truffaut, 1959 / IMDb


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✖ Via Knox News: “The Moonshiner” by Andy Armstrong

The man on the photo is Popcorn Sutton. He was the object of the documentary The Last One (2008). Find out more about the film over at the Sucker Punch Pictures official website. If you don’t know what’s a moonshiner, try wikipedia.

I found about Popcorn Sutton over at the American Dream Tumblr blog. I recommend it. Cheers.


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Life – Hosted by Google: Crowd enjoying a hot 4th of July at Coney Island beach. Photo by Andreas Feininger, Brooklyn, NY, US, July 04, 1946.


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Life – Hosted by Google: Winning models Marianne Baba (L), Lois Conway (C) and Ruth Swensen standing next to plates of their x-ray during a Chiropractor Beauty contest. Photo by Wallace Kirkland, May 1956, US.


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