Paris Toy Store Window by Albert Monier (1950s)

A Reflection of Sacré-Cœur in a Paris Toy Store Window by Albert Monier, 1950s via

Covered Car by Robert frank (1956)

Robert Frank Covered Car – Long Beach, California, 1956 via

Beverly Hills Cop by Slim Aarons (1952)

Slim Aarons, Beverly Hills Cop. American policeman Lee R Hathaway with his car on Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills, California, 1952 via

Woodstock Festival, 15.-18. August 1969

Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as “an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music” and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted more than 400,000 attendees.

Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite overcast and sporadic rain. It was one of the largest music festivals in history, and became synonymous with the counterculture of the 1960s. The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the silent and baby boomer generations.

Baron Wolman Woodstock, Guitar Traffic, 1969 via

Baron Wolman, Woodstock, Groovy Way, 1969 via

Baron Wolman, Woodstock, Couple in the Grass, 1969 via

Baron Wolman, Woodstock, Couple Resting, 1969 via

Henry Diltz, Woodstock Stage, Bethel, NY 1969 via

Henry Diltz, Grace Slick (singer of Jefferson Airplane), at Woodstock, Bethel, NY, 1969 via

Opening ceremony at Woodstock 15. august, 1969 via

Baron Wolman, Woodstock, 300, 000 Strong, 1969 via

Baron Wolman, Woodstock 1969, Love Your Animal Friends, 1969 via

Henry Diltz, John Sebastian, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Woodstock, Bethel, NY, 1969 via

Couple sleeping on car, Woodstock Festival, 1969 via

Photo taken near the Woodstock music festival on August 18, 1969 via

Venice Beach Rock Festival (1968)

Dennis Stock, “Venice Beach Rock Festival”, 1968 via

Beach Blanket Bingo on Coney Island, NY (1940s)

Pierre Belzeaux, Beach Blanket Bingo on Coney Island, NY via

New York by Fred Stein (1940s)

Fred Stein (1909 – 1967) was a street photographer in Paris and New York after he was forced to flee his native Germany by the Nazi threat in the early 1930s. He explored the new creative possibilities of photography, capturing spontaneous scenes from life on the street.

Fred Stein, “Little Italy”, New York, 1943 via

Fred Stein, “American All”, New York, 1943 via

Fred Stein, “Orchad Beach”, New York, 1946 via

Fred Stein, “Newspaper Hat”, New York, 1946 via

Photographs of Paris by Pierre-Yves Petit aka ‘Yvon’ (1920)

Born in Bordeaux in 1886, Jean Pierre Yves Petit moved to the French capital as a young man; there he parlayed a childhood passion for photography into a job at the august culture magazine L’Illustration. Adopting the pen name Yvon (to avoid confusion with a popular portrait photographer named Pierre Petit), he published his first photo essay in 1919: “Ciels et Reflets de Paris” (“Skies and Reflections of Paris”), a series of six melancholy cityscapes in which overcast skies played a starring role (source).

Background by by Pierre-Yves Petit (Yvon), 1920 via

Gargoyles on Notre Dame by Pierre-Yves Petit (Yvon), 1920 via

Scene from Paris by Pierre-Yves Petit (Yvon), 1920s via

Scene from Paris by Pierre-Yves Petit (Yvon), 1920s via

Scene from Paris by Pierre-Yves Petit (Yvon), 1920s via

Le jardin du Palais Royal à Paris by Pierre-Yves Petit (Yvon), 1920 via

Paris (1928)

The Eiffel Tower in 1928, Paris, France via

Cannon Drive by Slim Aarons (1952)

Cars driving along Cannon Drive, Beverly Hills, California, by Slim Aarons, 1952 via