Vaga Fertur Avis

On The Caterpillar, Women’s Pub Outing, Clapham, London, 1958

A Few Seconds Before Happiness, 1955

American Girl in Italy 1951

Normandy, 1944.

Roger Ballen, 2000.

Soldiers investigate the ruins of a crashed biplane, 1917.

RIP Loukanikos.

A fashion model underwater in the dolphin tank at Marineland, Florida. A similar image by fashion photographer Toni Frissell was published in Vogue in October 1939. Frissell had a knack for taking photos of women underwater. In 1947 she took another photo at Weeki Wachee Spring, which we posted as Lady in the Water.

An abandoned boy, holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following a German aerial bombing of London in 1940.  (Toni Frissell/LOC)

Mrs. Mary Couchman, a 24-year-old warden of a small Kentish Village, shields three little children, among them her son, as bombs fall during an air attack on October 18, 1940. The three children were playing in the street when the siren suddenly sounded. Bombs began to fall as she ran to them and gathered the three in her arms, protecting them with her body. Complimented on her bravery, she said, “Oh, it was nothing. Someone had look after the children.”