RT in my 🐦 archive by @obyrska.bsky.social "One of the photos that inspired me to choose immediate post-WW2 history .. was photo by Michael Nash from in Warsaw in 1946. It shows everything I've been writing about: the destruction, the hope, the need to rebuild lives, the contrast between the two."
We want to be remembered, but on our own terms… not those dictated by reality. It’s why your mom makes you dress up and brushes your hair for school picture day.
Yes, so well said. And for a fortunate many, that small gesture is also a daily act of loving kindness that is frozen in time for picture day.
Oh wow, thats so cool. Thats an "instant box camera" (which goes by many other names), a mostly forgotten niche type of camera for photographers to sell "instant" photos on the street. There is basically a tiny darkroom in that box and its a really fascinating process...
...They were mostly disappearing by the time this was taken, but survived in various corners of the world for decades afterward. They are most well known, now, as "Afghan Box Cameras" because of the amazing work done by folks like Lukas Birk, documenting the end of their use in Afghanistan c. 2012.