#Churchill

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Churchill, Manitoba

Taken October 2024

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Madeleine engaging in completely normal behaviors with her boss, Churchill

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Churchill tanks of 34th Tank Brigade cross a temporary bridge in Roosendaal, Netherlands, 30 October 1944

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Irish suffragette Mary Maloney

fuckyeah voting rights

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British soldiers from the Yorkshire Light Infantry Regiment take cover at the side of a road. Note the Flamethrower version of the Churchill Crocodile tank - Elst, Netherlands, March 1945

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An Arctic fox gives a huge yawn before curling up to keep warm from a strong northerly wind in Churchill, Man. About the size of small house cats, Arctic foxes remain active all through the long northern winter, often following polar bears to the sea ice to scavenge their leavings. 

Photo: Dave Sandford

2023 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year

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The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

- Winston S. Churchill

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Philippe Halsman's Jump Book

Compléments de documents Yvonne Halsman, Postface Owen Edwards

Éditions de La Martinière, Paris 2015, 96 pages, 194 ill, ISBN 989-2-7324-7506-6

euro 50,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

C’est en photographiant la famille Ford que Philippe Halsman a eu cette idée un peu folle : faire sauter Mme Ford devant l’objectif. Ainsi naît le concept de « jumpology ». Cet album présente des portraits hauts en couleurs (bien qu’en N&B), originaux, dynamiques, drôles et vrais. De Riga en Lettonie à New York, en passant par Paris, Philippe Halsman est devenu le plus grand portraitiste de son époque : Chagall, Le Corbusier, Gide, Malraux et d’autres artistes et intellectuels tombent tous sous la coupe de son appareil. Dès 1940, Halsman fuit l’Occupation et émigre aux États-Unis où il se reforgera une notoriété aux côtés de Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Winston Churchill, Audrey Hepburn, Salvador Dalí ou encore Alfred Hitchcock. La photographie d’Halsman se caractérise par son approche directe et psychologique, ainsi que par une recherche formelle dans le détail, affectionnant les expérimentations techniques et esthétiques. Il réalise 101 couvertures du magazine Life et publie, en 1959, son manifeste de la « jumpology » : Jump Book.

Le quasi 200 fotografie realizzate da Halsman a metà degli anni 50 che ritraggono stelle del cinema, regnanti, politici, attori, artisti e studiosi a mezz’aria sono ormai entrate a far parte nell’immaginario collettivo della cifra stilistica di Halsman. In quel periodo l’artista concludeva le sessioni fotografiche chiedendo ai suoi soggetti di saltare e così iniziò a prendere forma questa straordinaria ed energetica raccolta che tra gli altri annovera Marilyn Monroe, Edward Steichen, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Oppenheimer, John Steinbeck, Weegee, Aldous Huxley, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalì, Brigitte Bardot, Groucho Marx, Richard Nixon e il Duca e la Duchessa di Windsor. "Quando si chiede una persona di saltare", ha scritto Halsman, "la sua attenzione è principalmente rivolta verso l'atto di saltare, e la maschera cade, facendo apparire così la persona reale."

25/10/24

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“ Nap Attack “ // © Martin Gregus 

Music:  Kristian Sonderlund - World of Water

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Early morning arrival in Churchill, MB

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AAAAAAAA!!!

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WAITT is churchill being a black retriever working at a funeral home based on church grims o: ? (since they were black dogs sometimes)

Yes indeedy! ♡ Nice catch!

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Churchill tanks of A and B Squadrons, 43rd Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, 33rd Brigade negotiate obstacles during training, October 1942.

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I lied have more monkey drawings

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British soldiers from the 2nd Gordon Highlanders Regiment and Churchill tanks from the 6th Guards Tank Brigade - Kleve, Germany, Feb 1945