Friday, June 10, 2011

Oh Boys

Sally Mann

Pedro Luis Raota

Evgeny Mokhorev

William Gedney


"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five." (Thomas Carlyle)

Ken Graves & Eva Lipman


Saul Leiter

Herbert List

W. Eugene Smith, The Walk to Paradise Garden, 1946

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Masked Boy Standing in Doorway, 1959

Elliott Erwitt

Julie Blackmon

Julie Blackmon

Arthur Tress, Flying Dream, Queens, NY, 1971

Nikos Economopoulos

Martin Munkacsi, Boys Running into the Surf at Lake Tanganyika, 1931

Herbert List, Wrestling Boys - Baltic Sea - 1933

Rogerio Reis, Surfistas de Trem (Train Surfers), 1995

Arthur Grace

Helen Levitt

Mary Ellen Mark, "Rat" and Mike with a gun, Seattle 

William Klein 

Elliott Erwitt

John Gutmann

David Goldblatt, Holdup in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, November 1963

Thurston Hopkins, London, 7th August, 1954 

Diane Arbus, Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962 

Loretta Lux

Achim Lippoth, 1954 #02, 2004  

Karl Hubbuch, Chicken Thiefs, 1923

Shelby Lee Adams, The Cock Fighter, 2000

John Gutmann, The Soap Box Brothers - Georgia, 1937

Robert Doisneau, Speedsters, 1946

 Arthur Tress, Boy in Mickey Mouse Hat, Coney Island, 1968 

Jerome Liebling, Butterfly Boy, 1949 

August Sander, Grandson Gerd, 1952

Evgeny Mokhorev

Mary Ellen Mark

Helen Levitt, New York, ca. 1940 

Joseph Szabo

Nina Leen, Teen Age Boys Always Carry a Comb in Their Back Pocket, 1945

Teddy Boys

Helga Paris, Pauer, from the series "Berlin Teenagers”, 1982

Robert Mapplethorpe

Jindrich Streit

Adolf Uzarski, German Family, 1932

August Sander, High school boys celebrating the Kaiser´s birthday, 1915

Pupils of Eton college exercising in suit and high hat, rifle over the shoulder. England, 1915

Léon Gimpel, c. 1915

Robert Doisneau

Robert Capa, Spanish Civil War, Barcelona 1936
Barcelona. August-September 1936. The boy is wearing a cap belonging to a member of the Steel Battalions, of the "Union de Hermans Proletarios" (Union of Proletarian Brothers), an anarchist militia.


Margaret Bourke-White, Moscow 1941

Margaret Bourke-White, Nazi Storm Troopers' training class, 1938

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Russian Child Released from Concentration Camp, Dessau, Germany, 1945

Wayne Miller, Children in Naples, 1944

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Boys Wearing G.I. Shoes, 1940s


Charles E. Steinheimer, 1950, East Berlin
Young Pioneers getting a demonstration of practical atheism.



Young pioneers play cosmonauts of Vostok spacestation, East Berlin 1963


 Homer Sykes, Two young IRA "Hoods" with petrol bombs, 1980



Larry Towell, Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, March 1993

Zhang Xiaogang, My Dream: Little General, 2005

René Maltête

Robert Doisneau, Le Pigeon Indiscret, 1964

Robert Doisneau, 1956

Achim Lippoth

Julie Blackmon, American Gothic, 2008

 Max Ernst, La vièrge corrigeant l’enfant Jésus devant trois témoins: André Breton, Paul Eluard et le peintre, 1926

 Daniel Santoro, Evita punishes the marxist-leninist child, 2000s

Robert Colescott, The Dutiful Son, 1979 

Neo Rauch, Father, 2007

Evgeny Mokhorev, Untitled, 1997



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