promo for Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Rowan Atkinson by Sean Gallup, 2007
taken at the Adlon Hotel, Berlin
(Getty Images)
Happy Victoria Day weekend, Canada.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
Buckingham Palace, 1977
photo by Doug Ball
“The pirouette happened in 1977 at a meeting of what was then the Group of Seven leaders at Buckingham Palace… Trudeau told them he’d lost out jockeying for a spot near the Queen in a group photo. As the world leaders milled around the gilded room, Trudeau went for a spin.
The instant was captured by CP’s Doug Ball, by “pure horsesh—t luck,” the photographer recalls in Trudeau. Photographers had to catch Trudeau in the moment; there were no staged repeats.”
![post-mortem photo c. 1888
“It was extremely expensive to have a photo taken during Victorian times. Only the wealthy could afford such a luxury. If a child or other loved one died it was a common practice to have [their] photo taken either alone or, as in this case, with the family, especially if there was not yet a living likeness.
If you look closely you can see a base behind the girls feet and a post would go up from that with clamps at the waist and neck and the clothing would be open at the back. The arms would have stiff wires running at the back to hold them in place… The [eyes] are painted on the closed eyelids.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llngfvpffR1qbkmx9o1_500.jpg)
post-mortem photo c. 1888
“It was extremely expensive to have a photo taken during Victorian times. Only the wealthy could afford such a luxury. If a child or other loved one died it was a common practice to have [their] photo taken either alone or, as in this case, with the family, especially if there was not yet a living likeness.
If you look closely you can see a base behind the girls feet and a post would go up from that with clamps at the waist and neck and the clothing would be open at the back. The arms would have stiff wires running at the back to hold them in place… The [eyes] are painted on the closed eyelids.”
