Anita Louise in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), directed by Max Reinhardt.
Photo by Autumn de Wilde
“Young African American Woman, Half-Length Portrait, Facing Right, With Left Hand Under Chin,” from a collection of photographs of African Americans living in Georgia compiled by W.E.B. Du Bois for the 1900 Paris Exposition. Via the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
Illustration by Kimberly Denson.
Illustration by Zdzisław Witwicki for the 1960 Polish children’s book Z Przygód Krasnala Hałabały (“The Adventures of Hatabaty the Dwarf”), via Hippopotamus Collection.
Antonia Ordóñez (left) and Guadalupe Juarez-Ordóñez sitting on a half-moon prop for novelty photos at the Santa Monica Pier, 1920. Via Of Another Fashion.
Disneyland entrance, March 1959, photographer unknown. Via Daveland.
Source unknown.
Anjelica Huston, via The Impossible Cool.
Photo of Ann Schaufus by Clive Arrowsmith, for UK Vogue, November 1970.
Adapted from of a 1939 collage by Herbert Bayer. Reviser unknown.
“Crust of the Earth as Related to Zoology,” from Principles of Zoölogy (1848) by Louis Agassiz and Augustus Addison Gould, reprinted in Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution; via Brain Pickings.
Effie Moore & Troupe photographed by Addison Scurlock, via Black History Album.
Quartz crystal; source unknown.
The Peacock Skirt by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894.
Galaxie wallpaper by Rose Cumming, in her own home circa 1929, via Design Crisis.
Drawing by Kimberly Denson.
Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face by Barbara Kruger.
Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak, and Cornelia Thaw as Dracula’s brides in Dracula (1931), directed by Tod Browning.
Anita Louise in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), directed by Max Reinhardt.
Old Faithful by Kelly O’Connor.
Naturalia, Artificialia, photographer unknown, via Melbournearts.com.au.
Winter Birds by Kenojuak Ashevak, 1975; via 50 Watts.
Lara Stone by Josh Olins for Vogue Netherlands, May 2012.
Collage by rest less, via Boule de Neige.
Via Black History Album.
“Plein Soleil,” children’s-book illustration by Antoine Guilloppé.
“Chart of the Heavens Showing the Stars Visible on any Night Throughout the Year,” from Astronomischer Bilder-Atlas by W. Nitzschke, circa 1870. Via the Linda Hall Library.
Chorus girls in the revue Wien lacht wieder, Stadttheater, Vienna, 1929.
Illustration for Astrology magazine by Virgil Finlay, circa 1950s; via 50 Watts.
Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston at the Folies-Bergère, Paris, 1926. Via Wikipedia Commons.
19 Comments
I open this up and find the image from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Way to know that the following 30 pictures are also going to be a delight.
I know, right? :)
I especially like how this month all the backgrounds had a similar visual theme – the images all leave a very similar emotional impression on you, yet they are all different and tell different stories.
I see this picture and the name “Max Reinhardt” – funny, he was one of the most important directors of the theatre I work at… I never knew he made a movie. But it looks very beautiful…
I HAVE BEEN WAITING ALL MONTH FOR THIS.
So so so so so perfect and amazing and GORGEOUS <3 <3 <3 <3 The background pictures are, ALWAYS, LITERALLY THE BEST THING EVER
I have always noticed how beautiful the photos on the background were.
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God,I loved this month.
YES!
Wasn’t it a beautiful January with Rookie? Loved it, too!
Wow, Rookie you are so amazing, I do love you so! thank you all you lads and lasses that make this magic happen every month.
Perfect.
Photo that’s 12th up from the bottom- holy crap her dress is like ice crystals or something imagine if she shimmied.
XX Domenic
Barbara Kruger makes me happy, also the shiny spacy everythingness of these.
This month was especially perfect, thanks for the support
Every single one of these are so beautiful <3 I especially like 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24 and 25. That's most of them then ;) x
These are beautiful! I love how most of them are black and white! Who chooses the backgrounds? Because I love them.
I love looking through the backgrounds at the end of every month but this month was especially enjoyable I think I’m going to have to steal some for myself!!!
this month, along with october 2011, is my favourite. thanks yall
These photos are beautiful! :) I love how rookiemag changes their backround so often. It’s very refreshing :)
I LOVE the 24th and 1st pics!
I think January 2013 was one of my favorite months on Rookie, and that’s saying something ;)
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