Polish documentary photographer Andrzej Kramarz spent two-and-a-half years photographing the captivating collections of objects he discovered at Hala Targowa in Krakow’s Grzegórzki. (a huge open-air flea market that offers a truly astonishing range of goods including old weapons, furniture, silver, jewelery, junk, postcards and various other miscellaneous bits and pieces. )
“What reigns here is a world which has passed on: either not so long ago (communism) or a few decades earlier (the war, the inter war years). It does not really matter where we place the border, beyond which we speak of “the past”, “antiquity”, or use terms such as “out of date”. What is important is that these items belong to a warm and tangible “today”. After all it’s not a CD: all these rubber dolls, corkscrews from the times of the People’s Republic of Poland, relief carvings of “our” pope or Marshal Pilsudski, glass and crystal ware of varied authorship, all these things are emblematic of this world and the essence of its reality.”
Words by Darius Czaja from Rzeczy (Things)
Photographs by Andrzej Kramarz
Published by Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum
Via Lens Culture.
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I’ve heard that the Yukon is a magical place.
It is where in the winter one can experience 24 hours of dark and the summer 24 hours of sun. There is and abundance of wildlife like bears, moose, wilder beasts and many more of gods creatures. And also the annual summer tour of Bentley’s from all era’s pass through on the Bently Alaska Tour.
These pictures were taken in Dawson City by Dane. Imagine waking up in the wilderness expecting to see a bear, but finding a Bentley instead.
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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
- Marilyn Monroe
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Trouble with Harry by Alfred Hitchcock (1955)
Despite the gorgeous scenery of autumn on the screen, the location in Vermont was interfered with severe rainfall and many exterior scenes were actually filmed on sets built in a local high school gymnasium. Tons of boxes of autumnal leaves were shipped back to California where they were painstakingly pinned onto trees on a studio soundstage due to the indifferent weather conditions in Vermont. (more Trivia.)
This was a film debut of Shirley MacLaine. She looks stunning in the purple/blue dress.
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With Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban, and Richard P. Rogers Produced by Susan Meiselas, David Grubin, Co-Producer Andrew Fierberg, Original Music by Michael Montes and Robert Humphreville
Written, Edited, Directed by Alexander Olch
(Mr.Olch is also best known as a men’s neckwear designer. We’re huge fans.)
Images from
The Women’s Land Army, often referred to as “The Forgotten Army”, was actually formed in 1917 by Roland Prothero, the then Minister for Agriculture. With 6 million men away to fight in the First World War, Britain was struggling for labour. The government wanted women to get more involved in the production of food and do their part to support the war effort. This was the beginning of the Women’s Land Army.
By March 1940, agriculture in England and Wales had lost over thirty thousand men to the British Army. Another 15,000 had left the land to join other occupations. The severe shortage of labour persuaded the government to reform the WLA in June 1939, and by 1944 there were 80,000 women volunteers working on the land. About a third of the volunteers moved to the countryside from Britain’s industrial cities. The WLA lasted until its official disbandment on October 21, 1950 (59 years ago).
Women in the Land Army wore green jerseys, brown breeches and brown felt slouch hats. They did a variety of jobs and a quarter were involved in milking and general farmwork. The landgirls were also supplied with cheap, second hand battledress once their uniforms wore out. Rubber boots were important items for working on a farm, but with the war shortages, rubber became hard to get. Boots then had to be returned for reconditioning and sold back to the workers at a cheaper price.
Tea with the Queen: The event – held in the Buckingham Palace ballroom on October 21 2009- marked the anniversary of the Women’s Land Army’s (WLA) disbandment 59 years ago.
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Fumihiro Toda : Yakimono Todakobo
(More of his wonderful photography in Flickr. )
I believe in the beautiful pottery.
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Lucy Skaer
She makes drawings, sculptures and films which often take found photographic sources as their starting point. Rooted in reality, yet subjected to a process of elaborate transformation, Skaer’s images hover in the space between recognition and ambiguity, figuration and abstraction.
Turner Prize 2009 exhibition is at Tate Britain 6 October 2009 to 3 January 2010. The winner of the 2009 Turner Prize will be announced at Tate Britain on 7 December 2009.
The four artists nominated for Turner Prize 2009 are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright. (More info here.)
(Images via TATE Britain and doggerfisher: Contemporary art gallery in Edinburgh)
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Merry-go-round coat rack by Wieki Somers, the winner Golden Eye 2009, Dutch Design Awards. (More info HERE.)
Via davidrager.org and Core 77.
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The Supremes “Where did our love go” (1964)
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