anothereview:

Alfred Eisenstaedt

A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing. 1939

Photographer Ed Westcott was the only person allowed to photography the Oak Ridge reservation during the Manhattan Project. Aside from documenting the operations of the project, he spent a lot of time capturing everyday life within the 70,000 acre top secret city.

apophatic:

Photos from inside Oak Ridge, the government’s top-secret town

andrewromano:

Garry Winogrand photographs the 1960 Democratic National Convention:

The 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles was crammed with the political superstars of the day — John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson — as well as key staff members like Andrew Hatcher. Garry Winogrand took pictures of all of them, but his primary interest was elsewhere. ‘‘He photographed the life, the back corners, the audience,’’ says Leo Rubinfien, a photographer who is curating a retrospective of Winogrand’s work opening at SFMOMA next year. ‘‘The people watching the parade, not the parade — that was how he worked.’’ 

See more here.

Dive into Seattle from the late 19th to the early 20th century, at the Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs at the University of Washington’s University Libraries 

wash-off:

“the leveling of the hills to make seattle” by asahel curtis (1910)

this is one of my favorite photos (and my favorite photographers) of all time. one of my favorite pastimes is browsing this amazing collection of his photos.

beingblog:

“Last Visit”

by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

The photo above was taken and submitted by John Pusey with only the words you see above: “last visit.” The two men seen so relaxed and familiar with one another and I wanted to know more. In reply, John wrote:

“This is a photo of my father and my son shortly before my father passed away. Even with Alzheimer’s, he retained his love of music until his death at 83. He was the first in the family to realize that my son is a truly talented musician.”

Once an academic and youth development advisor, John is now retired and lives in Bonny Doon, California. In honor of his father’s love of music, he currently does volunteer work for a non-profit organization that provides era-appropriate music to seniors living in convalescent hospitals.

A NYT reader: 
“I remember the films of nuclear test dummies. The ones with white suits survived the heat wave and those with dark suits were incinerated.”  

lookhigh:

Left-leaning

Loomis Dean

A-bomb test dummies (1955)

life:

Of all the best-known American serial killers, none has had a greater cultural impact than Ed Gein, the Wisconsin maniac whose reign of terror began in 1947. Shortly after his arrest in 1957, LIFE sent photographers to Plainfield, Wis., where Gein passed most of his troubled existence, and documented the riveting details about his case as they unfolded. 

see more— LIFE goes Inside a Serial Killer’s House