boulez33:

43nils:

 Wally Elenbaas Café, France (1948)

Dark and romantic

haroldnmod:

A Window on the Quai Voltaire, Paris, 1928

by André Kertész

poboh:

lovers, ca 1950, Unknown photographer ( to me )

blue-voids:

Lu Guada - Stripes of Silence, 2012

snowce:

Dusdin Condren

crookedindifference:

First Solar Eclipse Photograph

Berkowski made the first solar eclipse photograph on July 28, 1851, also using the daguerrotype process, at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kalinigrad in Russia). Berkowski, a local daguerrotypist whose first name was never published, observed at the Royal Observatory. A small 6-cm refracting telescope was attached to the 15.8-cm Fraunhofer heliometer and a 84-second exposure was taken shortly after the beginning of totality.

spaceplasma:

T Tauri and Hind’s Variable Nebula

The orange star centered in this remarkable telescopic skyview is T Tauri, prototype of the class of T Tauri variable stars. Nearby it is a dusty yellow cosmic cloud historically known as Hind’s Variable Nebula (NGC 1555/1554). Over 400 light-years away, at the edge of a molecular cloud, both star and nebula are seen to vary significantly in brightness but not necessarily at the same time, adding to the mystery of the intriguing region. T Tauri stars are now generally recognized as young (less than a few million years old), sun-like stars still in the early stages of formation. To further complicate the picture, infrared observations indicate that T Tauri itself is part of a multiple system and suggest that the associated Hind’s Nebula may also contain a very young stellar object. The dramatic color image spans about 4 light-years at the estimated distance of T Tauri.

Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman

luzfosca:

Henri Cartier-Bresson

London, 1951

Thanks to undr