#old photos

Photograph by H. Fourtier, late 19th century

Kees-Scherer |1949

antique photograph, Lenoir, NC, September 2021

Vintage Black and White Photos Brought to Life With Embroidered Details.
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Artist Satoru Aoyama combines vintage prints and embroidery stitches to create fascinating multi-medium works of art. Known for his ability to intersect the contemporary with the traditional, Aoyama is recognized for his inherent craftsmanship and consistent acknowledgement of the artistic process. By perfectly aligning layers of embroidery onto monochromatic backgrounds, Aoyama is able to add new dimensions to each of his images. His work is one of restoration, taking the faded historical photographs and lending them new life through unique and colorful decorations.

Aoyama makes use of an old Singer sewing machine to adorn his pieces. The intricate process serves as a nod to the individual labor depicted in the photographed scenes. Born in Tokyo, Japan, but having studied art in America and the UK, the talented artist brings this varied educational background to his integrative work approach. Thread is meticulously layered on top of culturally and historically varied backgrounds, providing a depth and energy to the pictures, and allowing the characters’ handiwork to come alive in the process. Paying homage to the unknown embroiderers, Aoyama takes differing elements and merges them together to create a series of unified wholes.

FEMALE TYPES OF SAMARKAND, the beginning of XX century. From the collection of Boris Golender. Source photo:  Marakanda FB.

Vintage photo of Walt Disney himself.

archimaps:

View from Pont Alexandre III onto the International Pavilions at the World’s Fair in 1900, Paris

Sunset, 1925 and 1930. Autochrome, photograph – Friedrich Adolf Paneth.

Merano, Italy, 1930. Autochrome, photograph – Friedrich Adolf Paneth.

Snow mountains, 1915 and 1925. Autochrome, photograph –  Friedrich Adolf Paneth.

Ötztal, Tyrol, Austria, 1912. Autochrome, photograph – Friedrich Adolf Paneth.

• Algerian garden, 1923. Autochrome, photograph –  Jules Gervais-Courtellemont.
• Black sand beach, Hawaii, 1937.  Autochrome, photograph – Richard  Hewitt Stuart.

Glacier lake, Bavaria, Germany, 1928. Autochrome, photograph – Hans Hildenbrand.

Lake and snowy mountains, California, 1929.  Autochrome, photograph –  Charles Martin.

• Surrey Hiils, England, 1928.  Autochrome, photograph – Clifton Adams.
• Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1929.  Autochrome, photograph –  Jules Gervais-Courtellemont.
  

Portrait of Elsie Thomas in red hammock, ~1908. Autochrome, photograph – Alvin Langdon Coburn.

In the midst of flowers, England, 1919.  Autochrome, photograph – Emma Barton.

• Couple going for a row, Washington, District of Columbia, 1923.  Autochrome, photograph – Charles Martin.
• Lily pond. Autochrome, photograph – Franklin Price Knott.

• Garden in Bordighera, Italy, 1928.  Autochrome, photograph – Hans Hildenbrand.
• Flower seller in Barcelona, Spain, 1929.  Autochrome, photograph – Jules Gervais-Courtellemont.

Portraits of Christina:

• in the garden, England, ~1912.
  
• on the beach in Dorset, England, 1913.

Autochrome. Photographed by her father, Mervyn O'Gorman.

• Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany, 1925. Autochrome, photograph – Hans Hildenbrand.
• Johanneskirche Church, Stuttgart, Germany, 1928.  Autochrome, photograph – Hans Hildenbrand.
  
• Mansion, Worcestershire, England, 1910 – 1915.  Autochrome, photograph – Arthur E. Morton.

Victorian Men’s Hairstyles & Facial Hair
A collection of Victorian photographs, depicting some of the hairstyles and facial hair fashion of the time, and a few rather unique hair styles like a man with ringlets.

Woman’s Hairstyles
Victorian [x] | Edwardian [x] | 1920’s [x] | 1930’s [x] | WW2 [x]