Tag: photography

santaferomantic:

One of the most admired photographs that Edmund Teske took was a black-and-white portrait of his boyfriend, Richard Soakup. In the photograph, Soakup, bare-chested and grease-covered, emerges from a dark interior , an automobile in the background, which he has clearly just been repairing. The natural light is focused on Soakup’s tousled, curly blond hair and smooth chest. As Julian Cox notes, “although Soakup is engaged in labor usually associated with men, the intimate image has a soft, almost feminine, quality to it.”

orbisonblue:

kozacy:

In the heat of battle, photographer Horace Bristol captured one of the most unique and erotic photos of WWII.

Bristol photographed a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission, manning his gun after having stripped naked and jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot. The Marine was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.

“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”

“And well, there was his butt, and I had a camera. I mean I AM a historian.”

That is the BEST EVER quote about the nature of historians I’ve ever seen

marthajefferson:

Officially, no one was able to approach the White Wolf for 25 years. Vincent Munier, wildlife photographer, spent a month alone in the extreme Artic Tundra at the very north of Canada to photograph the rare and endangered animal –known as well as the Ghost of the Tundra. About 300 km away from the nearest Inuit Village, the animals have no contact with humans and so, haven’t learnt to fear them.
After a week of searching at -47°C, a pack of nine wolves eventually appeared, curious to see what the photographer was up to. They stayed near him for thirty minutes and Munier took 3000 exceptional images.

“I was just about to go to sleep when I spotted some grey and yellow points about 5 km away moving in my direction. A few minutes later, they were right next to my tent, circling it and I photographed them for the half an hour they stayed with me. The greatest moment of my career.”

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