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Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, circa 1903.

Photograph by Edward Steichen.

Robert Doisneau via tonguedepressors.

Preparation for the Sabbot by William Mortensen. Cary Loren has a fascinating look at Mortensen’s photography, Monsters and Madonnas: Looking at William Mortensen: “Mortensen was considered an anachronism in photography, an outsider in a field that rejected the theatrical set-ups, retouching and strong imaginative subject matter. Ansel Adams, high priest of the straight print, described Mortensen as both “the devil” and “the anti-Christ.” Historians seem to have sided with Adams, as there are few mentions of Mortensen in most of the major photo histories.” Any artist described as “the anti-Christ” is worth a look. Via hotparade.

Remy Duval, 1930, by Man Ray. Via anneyhall.

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The first air show at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. September 30th, 1909. Photographed in Autochrome Lumière by Léon Gimpel.

By August Sander.  More of his work via everyday i show.

Mediterranean Sea, Agde, by Gustave Le Gray. On the event of the Getty Center’s exhibition of his work in 2002, the curator wrote, “Gustave Le Gray is known as the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making.” I made a film about him while I was in grad school that I recently had the opportunity to telecine. The Broken Wave isn’t bad for a love note to a long dead hero.

Ellen Morton at Lake George, 1915. Photo by Alfred Stieglitz.  There is a retrospective of Stieglitz’s work at the Seaport Museum in NYC through January 11, 2011.  The accompanying book looks great (especially for the price).  Photo via anneyhall.

The American Image published a huge number of John Collier Jr.’s photos to Flickr in 2007 in conjunction with their show of his work.  Fortunately for us, they did not take them down.

everyday i show presents the best scans I’ve seen of the police photography of the New South Wales Police Department.  Alec Soth blogged about them in 2007, saying “…I once again wonder why I bother with photography. It seems unfair that an anonymous police photographer can be as good as Avedon and Arbus.”

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“Super surreal on-the-street style photos of costumed revelers at the 1903 New Orleans Carnival. The photographs were taken by a group of tourists from Illinois. They made a scrapbook of their trip, see it here. via Louisiana Digital Library”

via Nothing Is New

Joan of Arc. Around 1912. By Frederick W. Glasier. An incredible new collection of his work, Circus, is available from Eakins Press. An exhibition is up through September 6, 2010 at the Ringling Museum of Art.

from Storyville by E.J. Bellocq.  Nan Goldin wrote on Bellocq for Art Forum in 1997: “Whatever Bellocq’s intentions were, whatever the nature of his relationship to these women, his portraits transcend the portrayal of the prostitute as an object. I imagine that, with his loving gaze, the desire and the sexual act that normally occurs in prostitution had been sublimated into the act of photographing. In the end “Storyville Portraits” remains a unique collection of love poems.”

from Storyville by E.J. Bellocq.