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Itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 34 older comments, and then…
  • skillful north said:
    What a nice looking man. I hope he earned enough to live on.
  • truthful breath said:
    History in the making
  • Barbara Saunders said:
    This man is an exact contemporary of my grandfather, 1898-1971. I have photos I love of Grandpa wearing just these kinds of clothes and hats.
  • turbine blade said:
    This photographer must have developed the photos in the back of the camera. I have seen something like this years ago. It was almost instant photography at the time. I would like to see the detaila of how this was done.
  • boxcustom said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called film shooter, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Spahis in camp at Arsy after battle (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsy
  • Art Siegel said:
    Cropped from original in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France's Gallica online collection of photos from Agence Meurisse. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90417805 That photo (which does not have Bain's copyright markings) identifies the Spahis as Moroccan, and the location as Ribecourt, not Arsy. "A Ribecourt : un campement de spahis marocains" Pub. Date 1914
  • Arden said:
    Artolog: Thanks for finding the matching image with differing location information in the Gallica website. Its great to have the men identified as Moroccan and the name of the press agency, Agence Meurisse, who were probably responsible for the image which Bain copied. We will include some of these details in the image description when we update. Seems like the Gallica website may be a fruitful source for more information about some of the Bain World War I images.
  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos of Spahis:
  • shoebomber2010 said:
    Art Siegel GREAT research, Artolog! Great photo. I love the detail and the sense of seeing a 'day in the life of a moroccan soldier'.

Untitled

from Smithsonian Institution

  • ~Notes, said:
    Social commentary from the English "Punch" magazine. The 'faux French' caption reads: "Mais un monsieur qui pense lui meme tres beaucoups plus bon regardons que vraiment il est!" (Rough translation: Just a man who thinks he's better looking than he really is!"). The character in question may be a famous figure of the time, but more likely this is Punch identifying social 'stereotypical' characters seen around town, such as this business trader, perhaps seen as vulgar in his efforts to flaunt his wealth by dressing showily unlike the smartly dressed soldiers around him, something of a 'flash harry' type, with a phonetic knowledge of a foreign language passing for education. Or it may be a comment on how the French (the soldiers observing) see the English as uncouth of dress and speech? The lower picture now seems embarrassingly ill-informed, but was perhaps typical of the time.