Frances Benjamin Johnson, "Self/Portrait" (1896)

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 – 1952) was one of the earliest American female photographers and photojournalists. In the 1920s she became increasingly interested in photographing architecture, and her photographs remain an important resource for modern architects, historians and conservationists. In the photograph above, she can be seen holding cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other in her Washington, D.C. studio (1896).

Stanley Kubrick´s Photographs: Chicago, 1949

In the summer of 1949, then a photojournalist for Look magazine, Kubrick was sent to Chicago to cover a story called Chicago City of Contrasts.

All images from the Library of Congress

Daniel Yáñez´s Works (2011): Freudian Slip

Frank Hurley (1885-1962): Antartica Photographs, (1914 - 1916)

All photographs (c) Frank Hurley / State Library of New South Wales

Shackleton (in Hurley’s diary) Friday, 21 April, 1916:


"To whom this may concern viz my Executors assigns etc. Under is my signature to the following instructions. In the event of my not surviving the boat journey to South Georgia I here instruct Frank Hurley to take complete charge and responsibility for exploitation of all films and photographic reproductions of all negatives taken on this Expedition; the aforesaid films and negatives to become the property of Frank Hurley after due exploitation in which the moneys to be paid to my executors will be according to the contract made at the start of the expedition. The exploitation expires after a lapse of eighteen months from date of first public display. I bequeath the big binoculars to Frank Hurley."


Shackleton following the rescue:


"[Hurley] was one of the most active workers on the Expedition. Extremely clever, could do anything mechanically: always at work: splendid photographer: good for all schemes. No coward and a worker in the boats [going to Elephant Island] and fertile in devising schemes for bettering conditions. Thus you see a man of resource and intelligence... " http://www.frankhurley.org/

The Rescue. 30 August, 1916.

http://www.frankhurley.org/

Daniel Yáñez´s Works (2011): Dear Poch

(c) Daniel Yáñez González-Irún, 2011

Allan Grant (Life Magazine): Robert Rauschenberg seated on "Untitled (Elemental Sculpture)", 1953

Photograph of Robert Rauschenberg seated on Untitled (Elemental Sculpture) with White Painting (seven panel) behind him at the basement of Stable Gallery, New York (1953). © Photograph: Allan Grant, Life Magazine

Daniel Yáñez´s Works (1999-2011): "Pardao Blues"