Black and White Photos of Berlin in Ruins in 1945

Mark Cook shared with you:   Black and White Photos of Berlin in Ruins in 1945 vintag.es - On 2 May 1945, after one of the most intense battles in human history, the guns at last stopped firing amongst the ruins of Berlin. According to Soviet veterans, the silence that followed the fighting was literally deafening. Available on the App Store.

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The Disorienting Beauty of Spiral Staircases in Old Abandoned Buildings

Mark Cook shared with you:   The Disorienting Beauty of Spiral Staircases in Old Abandoned Buildings petapixel.com - Christian Richter is a fine art architecture photographer based in the small town of Jeßnitz, Germany. A fan of exploring old, abandoned buildings, Richter has often come across tall spiral staircases that look both beautiful and disorienting when viewed from the very top looking down. These staircases form a photo series of his that is aptly titled, "Abandoned Staircases." Richter tells us that he grew up in East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, many large buildings ended up being abandoned in Richter's part of the country. He began exploring these structures for fun and then began to focus on them years later when he entered the world of photography. Available on the App Store.

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Amazing Fashion Photography from the 1940s and 1950s by Erwin Blumenfeld

Mark Cook shared with you:   Amazing Fashion Photography from the 1940s and 1950s by Erwin Blumenfeld vintag.es - Amazing Fashion Photography from the 1940s and 1950s by Erwin Blumenfeld (1897 – 1969) is regarded as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. In the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for his fashion photography, working for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and also for artistic nude photography. "Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies." Erwin Blumenfeld Available on the App Store.

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