Thread: Portraits. People from any time any place.

except theres no Withnall in the ditch next to the guy pulling him off

Dr. James Naismith, the man who invented basketball, practices with his wife Maude in 1928.

A portrait by Bobcock a friend I miss very much. Most of his photos are now gone but found this great one from India.

The legendary Bobcock.


Himself and Bustak were (I'm sure still are) great photographers.

^ none of them shared any sordid gash pics though

'portrait' can be a loose term.

Here is one, quite unexpected!

Freddie Mercury in 1985, passed away 28 years ago at age 45, horrible loss for music.

^ Like 9/11 and Princess Diana, I remember where I was when I heard. Which is a bit odd, as I wasn't yet a teenager.




Female Chinese soldier prepares to blowup herself and a Japanese tank. 1938.

My grandad as a young boy. Photo taken around 1940.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Afghan Girl. Sharbat Gula - 1984




Afghan Girl. Sharbat Gula - 2002.



Married at approximately 13 years old. Widowed, 4 children, one of which died in childbirth. In 2016 was arrested and imprisoned in Pakistan for using forged documents. Was welcomed back to Afghanistan upon deportation, and given a 3,000 sqf residence and a promise of financial support by the government for her and her children.

Wow! I always wondered what became of the girl in this famous cover photograph. What a story and haunting eyes to tell the story. Thanks for the update.

A few talented people I met in Vietnam.





Some people I met along the way who were special and kind.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Here is one, quite unexpected!

It should had been noted that the 2nd picture was taken 120 years ago...

https://twitter.com/JackSamStrange/s...14905320501248

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

A few talented people I met in Vietnam.

Nice.

Reminded me of this. Thailand, Chiang Mai in the early 1970ies.

Anatoly Golimbievsky (WWII veteran) is saluted by Nakhimov Naval School cadets, 1989.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

it isn't good to visit them as it looks badly on them with tourist gawking at them and stuff.

That's not quite true. I remember more than 30 years being driven by a tourist agency to a remote hill tribe village to see their seemingly poor and primitive life ("Mister, see the old woman smoking opium, she is in fact just 25 years old).

They make their living from such performance.

And when I peeped secretly behind the houses, I have discovered hidden pickups they did not want to show off.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

And when I peeped secretly behind the houses, I have discovered hidden pickups they did not want to show off.

Motorbiked to a few villages out of CM over 10 years ago, around half the houses had True satellite dishes.

MM will just swallow all the guff whole, of course.

That's the market.

Mistletoe salesmen, Paris, 1928.

^ Now there's a pitch to get kisses.

Released from being a POW, the wife had taken all his money, cheated on him, and had already filed for divorce.



While imprisoned he lost the enamel on his teeth, so that any hot or cold food gives him pain. Because of this he is never really hungry anymore. Ominously he has been told that former POWs in his age group—Stirm is now 40—are showing signs of bone decomposition as a result of their long deprivation.
Embittered by his wife’s action against him, Stirm chose to fight for custody of all his children and resist her demands for her share of the community property. “Loretta got $136,000 in government allotments while I was in Vietnam,” he told the court, “and I want a share of it. I haven’t shared in any community in six-and-a-half years. I was sitting in that rotten, stinking hole.” Loretta, 38, asked for 50% of virtually everything Stirm owned, including half the $9,830 POW allotment granted him by the U.S. government to compensate for time spent in confinement and half his Air Force pension. “All those dreams I had in prison were nothing but dust,” Stirm complained angrily. “I’ve been taken to the cleaners.”



Stung by his wife’s lawsuit, he countered with evidence that she’d been unfaithful. “Mrs. Stirm was…human,” her lawyer admitted. “It was not unusual for POW wives to become emotionally involved with others during the absence of their husbands.”
Last month came the judge’s decision, and for Stirm it was a galling defeat. His wife was awarded custody of Cindy and Roger, plus the Stirms’ $24,000 suburban home and their car. Stirm must pay $300 a month child support. In addition, he was ordered to hand over 40% of whatever pension he will eventually receive. Although the court denied Loretta a share of his POW allotment and refused any alimony claim, it ruled nothing could be done about the $136,000 she’d already received. She was ordered to pay back $1,500 she’d spent traveling with other men

https://people.com/archive/a-pows-ma...ly-vol-1-no-5/

Gf took me to this place. Living on the edge. Hope you like the photo, upstream is magical.

^ where is that Fish? Looks nice.

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