45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks
To better understand the present, we often turn to the past, and photographs help us a lot with this. After all, many events and fleeting moments would have been forgotten forever if someone hadn't snapped the camera in time. The popular photoblog "Vintage every Day" publishes rare shots from the past: from portraits of celebrities in their youth to street shots of fashionistas of a bygone era.
Paris, 1951
"I showed Freddie a photo of Marlene Dietrich from the Shanghai Express, and he liked her," — photographer Mick Rock Freddie Mercury and Queen, photo by Mick Rock, London, 1974
Ru Paul and Nirvana at the MTV Music Awards, 1993
Audrey Hepburn
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell on the set of the movie "Gentlemen prefer blondes", 1953
Mom and daughter in New York, 1970
Audrey Hepburn with her dog named Mr. Celebrity, photo by Sid Avery, 1957
Sophia Loren pictured by Ormond Gigli, circa 1955
Queen on the set of the video "I Want To Break Free", 1984
Meryl Streep at school
Protest against the ban on abortions
A crow gives a light to Tippi Hedren on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, 1963.
Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier who returns home after World War II, 1945
Slash as a child
Hedy Lamarr in Robert Z. Leonard's "The Siegfield Girls", 1941
Capri, Italy, 1949
Heath Ledger as a child
Johnny Depp and Kate Moss in the Annie Leibovitz photo shoot, 1994
Amy Winehouse for the Sunday Telegraph magazine, 2004
Stephanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga), 1998
Susan Sarandon in Cannes, 1978
Mott Haven, New York, 1979. Photo by David Gonzalez
Photo of Salma Hayek for casting, circa 1995
Benicio Del Toro and Parker Posey, photo by Mark Seliger, 1995
Freddie Mercury at Nagoya Castle, Japan, 1975
Sharon Tate, photographer Shakrokh Khatami, 1968
Cher, Elton John and Diana Ross at the Rock Music Awards, 1975
How schoolchildren dressed in 1969
Leonardo DiCaprio with his parents in 1976
Brittany Murphy, 1998
David Bowie, photo by Steve Shapiro, 1975
South Korea, 1990s
Teenagers at an Elvis concert in Philadelphia, 1957
Keith Richards, Tina Turner and David Bowie at the Ritz Hotel in New York, photo by Bob Gruen, 1983
Women sit on a fire escape in Harlem, New York, 1978
People rollerblading on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, 1979
Debra Jo Fondren, 1979
Jessica Lang in New York, 1975
St. Petersburg, Florida, 1973
Santa Monica, California, 1955. Photo by Elliott Erwitt
A kiss at the Hotel De Ville. Photo by Robert Doisneau, 1950
Jayne Mansfield poses with the winner of the Miss Hollywood 1957 pageant
Claudia Schiffer and Chrissy Turlington at the Versace party in Paris, 1994
Michelle Pfeiffer as Elvira Hancock in Scarface, 1983, directed by Brian De Palma
"Men Don't Protect You Anymore", Nirvana in Manhattan, 1993
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