by Weegee

New York. “Max is rushing in the bagels to a Second Avenue restaurant, one morning in 1940.”

by Fred Boissonas

Ios, Greece, 1918

by Arnold Newman

Alfred Krupp portrait, Essen, 1963.

Armaments manufacturer Alfred Krupp who allegedly used slave labor to make weapons for the Nazis, contacted the famous Arnold Newman for a portrait in 1963.

Upon finding out that Newman was a Jew, Krupp refused to let him take the photograph. Newman insisted to have Krupp look at his portfolio before making a final decision and after seeing Newman’s portfolio Krupp accepted.

On July 6, 1963, they went into a factory in Essen which belonged to Krupp, where Newman decided to make Krupp look as evil as possible under the eerie demonic lighting of the factory.

When Krupp first saw the portrait he was livid. Newman was more tongue-in-cheek:  “As a Jew, it’s my own little moment of revenge.” [Sources: 1, 2]

by Jean-Philippe Charbonnier

Soup kitchen, Paris winter. 1950s.

by Enzo Natale

Untitled (Square Colosseum, Rome)

by André Kertész

Untitled, Toronto, Feb. 18, 1979

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
— Dorothea Lange (via liquidnight)

by Saul Leiter

Nude, 1970s

(Source: orphanwork)

by Jacob Aue Sobol

Beijing, 2012. From Arrivals and Departures.

by Fred Boissonas

Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion) and the Acropolis, Athens,1920.