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Franco Fontana, Untitled (Houston, Texas, 1985)
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Grammichele is located on the island of Sicily in southern Italy. The town was constructed in 1693 with a distinctive hexagonal street plan after an earthquake destroyed the nearby old town of Occhialà. Grammichele is home to about 13,000 people.
37.214722°, 14.636389°
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Julius Shulman, Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, architect, Los Angeles, California, 1960.
The building is also known as Stahl House.
#photography#b&w photography#black and white#architecture photography#architecture#julius shulman#pierre koenig#los angeles#1960s#case study houses#stahl house#modernism
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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989.
#barbara kruger#contemporary art#1980s#feminism#women's right#body autonomy#typography#futura#pictures generation#conceptual art
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Road trip across the USA. (via Flashbak)
#photography#road trip#usa#cars#colour#Kodachrome#20th century#travel#wanderlust#attribution pending
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Singer Dana arrives at Dublin Airport after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 with her song All Kinds of Everything. Photo by Roy Bedell.
#photography#black and white#b&w photography#photojournalism#eurovision#eurovision song contest#1970s#dublin#ireland#music#concert#airport#dana#dana rosemary#roy bedell
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Nina Vatolina, Fascism – The Most Evil Enemy of Women. Everyone to the Struggle Against Fascism, 1941
#poster#graphic design#colour#nina vatolina#antifascism#feminism#soviet poster#soviet propaganda#agitprop#women artists
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Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporu, 1928
#painting#oil on canvas#tarsila do amaral#brazil#modernismo#modernismo brasileiro#grupo dos cinco#movimento antropofágico#women artists#abaporu#1920s#colour
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Ruth Orkin, American Girl in Italy, 1951, from her photoessay Don't Be Afraid to Travel Alone
#cw: sexual harassment#photography#b&w photography#black and white#italy#florence#1950s#sexism#male gaze#ruth orkin#jinx allen#unwanted attention#women photographers
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Eve Arnold, The cast and crew of The Misfits at the Casino, Reno, 1960
#photography#gambling#marilyn monroe#casino#black and white#b&w photography#the misfits#1960s#reno#nevada#USA#eve arnold#women photographers
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Frederick Charles Herrick, poster for the London Underground, 1926.
#poster#graphic design#heat#summer#london#london underground#underground#subway#united kingdom#1920s
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Greta Thunberg in one of her first school strikes, photographed by Adam Karls Johansson in 2018.
#greta thunberg#photography#b&w photography#black and white#climate change#fridays for future#strikes#school strike for climate#adam karls johansson#2010s#2018#climate crisis#sweden
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Symbol of the Universal Spirit of Nature, engraving from Ebenezer Sibly's book A Key to Physics and the Occult Sciences, 1796.
#engraving#drawing#alchemy#universal spirit#ebenezer sibly#occultism#mercury#elements#18th century#1790s
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Unknown photographer.
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Aggretsuko S02E06 (“Unknown Future”), first aired in 2019
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Shuzhen, Akihabara, 2014
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Otto Neurath, ISOTYPE chart for America and Britain, 1945
#illustration#infographics#government#usa#uk#parliament#presidential government#cabinet government#politics#isotype#1940s
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