Salvador Dali, artist. Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1939.
This preserved scene shows Head-and-shoulders portrait of man posed in front of a flower patterned cloth. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Salvador Dali, artist. Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1939.
This preserved scene shows Head-and-shoulders portrait of man posed in front of a flower patterned cloth. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Salvador Dali, artist. Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1939.
Historical photographs preserve details that written records can miss: clothing, tools, architecture, body language, and the ordinary environments around important changes.
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Andy Warhol, artist, with a Polavision movie camera. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, around 1977.
Crowd waiting for the Pope, Yankee Stadium, New York. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1979.
Scott County High School principal Gregory Figgs, Georgetown, Kentucky. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell, 1998.