Best Photos of Last Week (Dec 17-23) from National Geographic

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The penultimate week of the outgoing year, and National Geographics continues to acquaint us with retro photographs dating from the first half of the twentieth century. Unique shots, natural, natural, "alive", they show how our ancestors lived and worked at a time when digital cameras, computers and special effects were never even dreamed of.

December 17

One of the earliest advertisements for the national lottery in Paris was on the boulevard of the Italians in 1936. Passing posters with the words "Try Your Luck" and advertisements for vermouth, I wonder how many residents of the French capital thought about really trying their luck.

December 18

In the 1930s, children had little fun, and the bar-on-barrel swing was one of the most popular of them. In particular, in Korea, kids paid a lot of attention to such swings, as you can see from this picture. Its author is photographer W. Robert Moore, who served as the foreign editor of National Geographic magazine. Almost 90 magazine articles have gone through his hands. He retired in 1967.

December 19th

The autochrome photo, dated 1928, bears the memory of huge ships approaching a noisy dock to unload millions of tons of iron ore near Ashtabula, Ohio. The photo was published in May 1932 in National Geographic by a regular contributor named Jacob J. Gayer, who has been with the magazine for 11 long years.

December 20

A landmark event in 1934 took place in one of the main squares of London. Obviously, this is what the very first flash mob looked like when, during the royal parade, people came out to the square with mirrors raised high to catch the glow of the festive procession. An impromptu periscope, as the author of the photograph, Maynard Owen Williams, said about what he saw.

21 December

Miniature "Woman and Miner", filmed in West Virginia in 1938 by photographer Anthony Stewart. For a long time, Stewart was an accountant at the National Geographic darkroom, but the talent of a photographer, who suddenly woke up in him, provided him with a multi-year career as a photographer in this magazine.

December 22

The Oil Rig Forest in Signal Hill, California is a local attraction located in the north end of Long Beach, Los Angeles. The industrial landscape, not devoid of a certain charm, creates a specific atmosphere for conversation, and any topic in such an atmosphere seems especially important. The photo was taken in 1941 by the already familiar Anthony Stewart.

December 23rd

The original photographs, with a subtle sense of humor and style, are the work of a photographer named Luis Marden. He very skillfully used his charm and charm to persuade interesting subjects he met on the street, pose for a photo as if we were talking about an episode in a movie. That's why a girl who participates in a rodeo in El Paso, Texas, willingly pretends to park her pony in the paid parking lot. Photo taken in October 1939.