wehadfacesthen:

A bookshop in West London, England, October 22, 1940, during the Battle of Britain

via semioticapocalypse  (from robotcosmonaut & Bookshelfporn)

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fuldagap:

Red Army soldiers setting a clock to Moscow time in Silesia, Allied-occupied Germany, 1945.

(Source: an-overwhelming-question, via majorzero)

ash-aconitum:

Remembrance Day: Women at War

Patricia Collins (née Holden) was one of three press photographers working in the Public Relations Department of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, England, 1944. (x)

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itsjohnsen:

A German soldier returns home only to find his family no longer there. Frankfurt, 1946.
Tony Vaccaro

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lostsplendor:

June 6th, 1944  ”D-Day. Crowd watching the news line on the Times building at Times Square.”(via)

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lostsplendor:

Blitz on Bikes, London c. 1940 (via National Media Museum)

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cruello:

A U.S. soldier looks at the injury of a Nazi youth pending the arrival of a doctor.

September 6, 1944.

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timelightbox:

American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.  Robert Capa—©International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

As we posted earlier today, this evening Christie’s held its first-ever auction of contemporary photojournalism prints at its New York City auction house. The event, which will be hosted by news anchor Christiane Amanpour, will benefit the family of the late Anton Hammerl, a photographer who was killed in Libya last April.

The auction, says David Brabyn, one of the organizers, demonstrates the sense of community among photographers who put themselves at risk for their work. “It’s been quite highlighted recently,” he says, “after all the deaths of reporters, both photographers and print.”

But one of the most important prints up for bid was not a donation from someone in that community. Robert Capa’s photograph of American soldiers landing in France on D-Day is perhaps the most familiar picture in the bunch; Capa was killed by a land mine in 1954. The donation comes from the International Center of Photography, where his work is archived. (The winning bid will also include a personal tour of his archive.) ICP was founded by Capa’s brother, Cornell Capa, and the print comes from his personal collection.

Read more about this image and the auction here.

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suicideblonde:

London Bomb victim photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1940

A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building on the morning of July 28, 1945. New York Times photographer Ernie Sisto had two of his friends hold his belt while he dangled off the side of the building to snap this photo. 

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softfilm:

Chinese-American Shipbuilder

“Los Angeles, Calif. — Miss Ethel Mildred Lee, 23-year-old girl born in this country of Chinese parents, is shown at her job as an electrician-helper at the Los Angeles yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation, where she has worked for almost two years. Extra incentives to help the war effort are two brothers in the U.S. Army and one in the Navy yard at Honolulu, Hawaii. Miss Lee, who’s 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 98 pounds, buys $100 worth of War Bonds a month.” — January 20, 1944

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World War II: Women’s Work - 50 Photos That Brought the War Home

Lest there be any doubt that World World II had (unintentionally) sparked a cultural shift, this photo of a female welder at a boat-and-sub-building yard was a clear signal that women were as comfortable brandishing a blowtorch as they were wielding a wet mop. Though many of them would be forced to abandon their jobs to make way for the men when the war ended, gender roles — as Americans had long-understood them — had forever shifted.

World War II: The Hour Nears - 50 Photos That Brought the War Home

LIFE photographer Frank Scherschel covered D-Day and Operation Overlord from well before the actual invasion to the Allied liberation of Paris months after the famous landings at Normandy. With this photo of GIs tramping in review across an English field, Scherschel managed to suggest the gigantic scale of the operation (160,000 Allied troops took part, making it the greatest air-land-and-sea invasion in military history) while at the same time humanizing it — putting viewers, as it were, on the ground as the long-planned invasion draws near.