no idea how they even get photos like this, the photography of Mark Von Raesfeld

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/07/blog-post_55.html

https://www.facebook.com/markvrphotography/posts/pfbid028ujEKS1oFn4FBADnmxXMiL3UehBFhyW7P1kkdd5ACp4K6w8FXRkXzBbaSRf4EJEtl Mark's facebook page

https://mvrphotography.zenfolio.com/p128132575/he2ad8e8e#he2ad8e8e

in New Jersey in 1901, the Detroit Photographic Special being pulled by a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western locomotive, was William Henry Jackson's traveling photographic studio-salon rail car

 https://www.shorpy.com/node/27736?size=_original#caption

WHJ completed his autobiography, "Time Exposure," in 1940, two years before his death at age 99.

https://www.shorpy.com/node/11206?size=_original#caption

It's been a long time since I've come across anyone doing lettering (the art, with pinstriping, to me is a foundational piece of the 50s/60s hot rodding) and photography - so it's with great joy and pleasure I present the art of Marie Plumot, in Bordeux France

 

https://www.instagram.com/marieplumot/

https://studioplumot.com/

Stephen Mallon 's "Passing America" exhibition continues his obsessive documentation of the American railroad system.

Mallon's photographs illustrate an infrastructure that has been essential to our nation for centuries. 

Presented in a one-to-three ratio, replicating the proportions of the rail cars he depicts, these photographs are a tribute to the American railroad system.

In 2018 there were 1,637,000 freight cars in operation across North America, each distinctive in their construction, markings and utility. Time and human contact add to each train car’s individuality: all carrying a vast, and sometimes surprising array of goods and resources. This series of photographs captures the still active rail lines that carry freight to destinations across the country.

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/front-room-gallery-stephen-mallon-passing-america/

https://www.metroframe.com/blog/2020/02/stephen-mallon-passing-freight-front-room-gallery-in-new-york-city/

Front Room Gallery 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534, USA

Three circus elephants pull a semi-truck across a field in Cedar City, Missouri

taken by Edwin Martin who documented six traveling circuses from 1983 to 1986.

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2025/04/the-greatest-show-on-mud-edwin-martins-photographs-of-traveling-circuses/?loclr=eaptb

https://petapixel.com/2025/04/20/photographers-stark-images-of-circus-life-in-the-1980s/

Luke Ray (Fuel Magazine, Fuel Tank blog) is onto new stuff, his old sites are shut down

 

Fuel Magazine was the coolest photo journal of hot rodding and racing... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=luke+ray

http://www.fuelzine.com/ ,  http://fueltank.cc/blog , http://www.fuel-press.com/  all dead links. 

But you can look at https://www.facebook.com/lvkeray  https://www.lukeray.com/moto#33

Saul Leiter, New York City streets in color

Saul Leiter took photos every day for 60 years in New York’s East Village, capturing daily life in the neighborhood where he lived for his entire adult life. Leiter was a postwar pioneer in color photography, and when he died, in 2013, he left behind at least 40,000 color slides, 15,000 black-and-white prints, and 40,000 black-and-white negatives

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-guardian-usa/20240205/282011857255750

https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/saul-leiter-an-unfinished-world

https://independent-photo.com/news/the-unseen-saul-leiter/

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/saul-lieter/index.html

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/soleitercocacola.jpg

Sabine Weiss — Le triporteur, rue de la Paix, Paris, 1957

https://www.holdenluntz.com/artists/sabine-weiss/le-triporteur-rue-de-la-paix-paris/

Garçon sur Planche à Routlettes 1952, Sabine Weiss photography

 

https://www.holdenluntz.com/artists/sabine-weiss/garcon-sur-planche-a-routlettes/

William Helburn was the go-to photographer for many of the top advertising agencies in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as cars and cosmetics, Helburn shot Coca-Cola, Canada Dry, whiskeys, clothing lines, airlines, etc

Buick LeSabre Coral Gables, 1964

 William Helburn's playful images are now some of the most memorable and compelling of the era, injecting humor, frivolity and a mischievous ‘shock value’ into the austere world of fashion photography and advertising.

Some very famous people posed for Helburn, including Paul Newman, Sharon Tate, 

Carmen Dell’Orefice and Betsy Pickering on top of a Fifth Avenue bus in New York, 1958

Anne St. Marie, Park Avenue, New York, NY, 1958

Dovima, Jet Pilot, 1954

https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/4071/getting-to-know-photographer-william-helburn

for the best gallery, https://www.artsy.net/artist/william-helburn

or hit the library to see the book,  https://www.amazon.com/William-Helburn-Mid-Century-Advertising-Photography/dp/0500517657

Jerry Schatzberg, Carmen Exits Taxi 1959

https://www.1stdibs.com/art/photography/portrait-photography/jerry-schatzberg-jerry-schatzberg-carmen-exits-taxi/id-a_5168851/

Anne St. Marie, Pushing Man in Cab, 1958 - Jerry Schatzberg

 

https://www.1stdibs.com/art/photography/portrait-photography/jerry-schatzberg-anne-st-marie-pushing-man-cab-1958-jerry-schatzberg/id-a_6861522/#zoomModalOpen

Georges Dambier's photograph of Lucinda London

 

https://www.holdenluntz.com/artists/georges-dambier/lucinda-london/

Update, today I got an email from Georges Dambier's son, Guillaume, who likes my blog and sent me a couple more photos his father made! 

thank you Guillaume!

Judi Dench and Helen Mirren photographed by Annie Liebovitz in a 2007 photo spread for Vanity Fair.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=345328631878295&set=a.258422927235533

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2007/03/filmnoir_portfolio200703