Diana Vreeland adjusts Marilyn Ambrose’s dress
photo by Richard Avedon, 1946

Degas’ Coney Island
photo by Harold Feinstein, 1949

for Montgomery Ward, 1943

Hollywood Pan-American Chess Tournament, 1945
(the girl at far left is Julie London) 

photo by Nina Leen
for LIFE Magazine, 1949

photo by Gjon Mili (detail)
for LIFE Magazine, 1945

Jean Patchett by Nina Leen
for LIFE Magazine, 1949

Paris in winter, 1948
photo by Dmitri Kessel
for LIFE Magazine

pattern c. 1940s

Why is he shaving in the middle of the room?
Why does that razor need such a long cord?
Is he thinking or listening?

So many questions.

nine pictures of Maine in winter
by Bernard Hoffman for LIFE Magazine, 1942
 

It’s crazy cold here today.

Jimmy Stewart plays piano with his mom, 1945

promo for Without Reservations
John Wayne and Claudette Colbert
(dir. Mervyn LeRoy, 1946)

Carol Channing by Nina Leen, 1949

Carmen Dell’Orefice in Ceil Chapman
photo by Norman Parkinson
for Vogue, 1949

Ida Lupino and Errol Flynn, c. 1940s
photographer unknown