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Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57.
09/08/2024

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57.

Son of one of the FSA farmers on the Rio Piedras project who brought lunch to his father, working in the sugar cane fiel...
09/02/2024

Son of one of the FSA farmers on the Rio Piedras project who brought lunch to his father, working in the sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

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Cheese Market, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Photo by John Margolies, 1984. #1984
12/09/2023

Cheese Market, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Photo by John Margolies, 1984.

#1984

Two women making braided rugs on porch. Photo from U.S. Department of Agriculture.
12/08/2023

Two women making braided rugs on porch. Photo from U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Amazing memorial restoration.Send me your old photo for quote -> dragonnlilies@gmail.com
04/21/2023

Amazing memorial restoration.
Send me your old photo for quote -> [email protected]

Louis McDowell cuts Michael Young's hair at his barbershop, 1994.
03/03/2023

Louis McDowell cuts Michael Young's hair at his barbershop, 1994.

Photographer Edward Steichen (1879-1973), whose work "The Pond—Moonlight" was sold at an auction for $2,900,000, was bor...
07/18/2022

Photographer Edward Steichen (1879-1973), whose work "The Pond—Moonlight" was sold at an auction for $2,900,000, was born in Luxembourg. He was 18 months old when his parents immigrated to the United States and settled in the city of Hancock, Michigan, where the father of the future photographer got a job in a copper mine. When studying at school, Edward became interested in drawing and painting, and after receiving a high school diploma, he had worked for several years in a lithographic company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pursuing a career from an apprentice to a designer.

In 1895, Edward Steichen "just out of curiosity" bought a camera. His first photo experiments could had hardly been called successful, later he recalled with a smile that from his first film only one single frame was obtained, and even then it was far from a masterpiece. His father tried to persuade him to give up this "futile undertaking", but fortunately for us, the young man remained deaf to his parents' reasoning.

In 1890s, Steichen started to visit library, where he learned art history on his own. He discovered pictorialism, realized that the purpose of photography goes far beyond simply copying reality. The style of the early Steichen began to take shape - blurry silhouettes of people, foggy pictures of urban and nature landscapes, obscure, weightless fragments.

In 2006, one of his early works, "The Pond—Moonlight", was sold at auction for $2,900,000.

Edward Steichen is known not only as a recognized master, but also as an organizer of major international exhibitions. The most significant of these was "The Family of Man", which took place in New York in 1955. Steichen inquired the photo organizations in different countries to send him photographs showing human life in its most diverse manifestations. He received more than two million photos from all over the world! Steichen and his assistants first selected 4000, and subsequently formed the final exposure of 503 photos. In total, the exhibition featured the work of 273 photographers from 68 countries. Among the exhibits were the works of famous as well as unknown authors. The exposition "The Family of Man" took place in 40 countries, and was visited by about ten million people.

Fritz Perls (1893 - 1970) - the legendary figure of psychology.Freudian, nurtured by leading psychoanalysts, and at the ...
07/14/2022

Fritz Perls (1893 - 1970) - the legendary figure of psychology.
Freudian, nurtured by leading psychoanalysts, and at the same time the one who spoke of "Freudian nonsense" in his declining years. A psychologist, who, by his own admission, has not read a single textbook on Gestalt, yet created a school of psychology called "Gestalt", that provided the foundation for the modern study of perception. An ally of many prominent figures in humanistic psychology, never assigned to this trend.
"I did not invent anything. - said Perls - I only discovered what was known from time immemorial."
In collaboration with Ralph Hefferlin and Paul Goodman, Perls published "Gestalt Therapy" in 1951, in which he first formulated the beginning of his own therapeutic approach. In subsequent years, he published several more of his books on Gestalt. After that, he founded the New York Institute of Gestalt Therapy, the centre of which was located in Perls' apartment.
In 1960, Fritz Perls decided to travel around the world. He went through Honolulu to Tokyo. The scientist also visited the famous Japanese city of temples - Kyoto. Captivated by the idea of ​​a religion without a God, he spent two months in a Zen monastery. From Japan, he went via Hong Kong to Israel. There he stopped for a long time in Eilat.
The experience of life in society had a good impact on him. Temporarily, he even had an idea to stay in Eilat. However, the desire for something new still won, and after a visit to the colonies of Israeli artists Ain Hod, he returned to the US.
Fritz moved to British Columbia in 1969, where he founded a Gestalt community on Vancouver Island.

Translated from German, the word "gestalt" means a holistic image, shape or figure. In psychology, this is the name given to a structure that is perceived by a person as a whole, and not as different elements. For example, a melody for us is a gestalt, and not a set of separate sounds.

"I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped."
Fritz Perls, Gestalt prayer.

"The Lady with the lamp" - Florence Nightingale, was a British woman who revolutionized modern nursing. She was born on ...
07/12/2022

"The Lady with the lamp" - Florence Nightingale, was a British woman who revolutionized modern nursing. She was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy and was named after the city.
Despite the fact that her family was against it, she chose the profession of a nurse, which was unusual for people of an aristocratic society at that time. She worked as a superintendent at the London Institute of the Nursing. Florence didn't take payment for her work, because her father gave her a solid annual income, on which she could continue her career and lead a comfortable life.
This continued until, in the autumn of 1854, the news reported of the terrible conditions in the front-line hospitals in the Crimean War. Nightingale reacted to the information and, with 38 volunteer nurses and 15 nuns, departed for the Ottoman Empire.
After a long journey, the delegation was placed in the barracks of Scutari, where the indifferent medical staff could not provide a proper care for the wounded soldiers. As a result of the lack of medicines and equipment, infection spread, and mortality rate among the wounded soldiers increased.
Basic hygiene helped to significantly reduce the number of deaths. When all the doctors would leave the rooms for the night, Florence, who was called "the Lady with the lamp", continued to care for soldiers.

Nightingale created a care system: increased the number of wards to eliminate the crowding of the wounded, organized kitchens, laundries. She believed that the work of the sisters of mercy was also to take care of the leisure of the soldiers, organize reading rooms, help to establish correspondence with relatives - to save the wounded not only physically, but also spiritually.
In 1883, Florence received the Order of the Royal Red Cross and the award of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and then became the first woman admitted to the Closed Society of Eminent Citizens, organized in 1902 by the British monarch Edward VII.

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