Red, white and green (Jayson Werth, Nationals Park, April 14, 2012)
Photo: Avie Schneider
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Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946 (Library of Congress)
The KYOPO Project - 240 Portraits
CYJO
Digital pigment print, 2011
Collection of the artist
© CYJO
(National Portrait Gallery | Asian American Portraits of Encounter)
Mia Farrow, from Planet Shades
(Source: rhymeswithdolores)
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, 1969
(Source: rhymeswithdolores)
Life imitates…
Nan Wood and Byron McKeeby – the artist’s sister and dentist respectively – pose next to Grant Wood’s painting, American Gothic (1930), in which their likenesses were used.
Happy birthday, Lady Day
Jazz singer Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915.
(Photo: William P. Gottlieb, Downbeat, ca. February 1947, via Library of Congress)
Picturing Dorothy
The earliest American attempts in duplicating the photographic experiments of the Frenchman Louis Daguerre occurred at NYU in 1839. John W. Draper, professor of chemistry, built his own camera and made what may be the first human portrait taken in the United States, after a 65-second exposure. The sitter, his sister Dorothy Catherine Draper, had her face powdered with flour in an early attempt to accentuate contrasts.
(via NYU)
(Photo: Vithalbaj Jhaveri / GandhiServ via the New York Times)
