Photo by Ariko Inaoka, from the series Erna and Hrefna 2011.
Photo by Erik Calonius, from the U.S. National Archives Flickr.
Two Amish Boys, 1962. Photo by George Tice, via The Bohmérian.
Photo by Ariko Inaoka, from the series Erna and Hrefna 2011.
From the book Speak Italian: The Fine Art of the Gesture by Bruno Munari (1958).
Photo by Marios Kalamaris.
Drawings of the phases of the moon by Galileo Galilei.
X-rays from Hopital des Enfants Malades in Paris, printed in Le Livre de la Sante by Joseph Handler (1968, Andre Sauret), volume 12: La Croissance. Via 50 Watts.
Via FFFFOUND! Original source unknown.
Polaroid of Jenny Conlee of the Decemberists by Autumn de Wilde.
Life on the American Great Plains. Vintage postcard by Drum Studio, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Via Wooway1’s Flickr.
Photo by Joseph Szabo.
Photo of Ali Michael by Yelena Yemchuk for Lula #7, fall 2008.
Decomposed nitrate film frame clippings from the Turconi Collection, via 50 Watts.
Photo of Yoko Ono and John Lennon in 1968 by Ethan Russell, via The Photogallery.
Photo by Ariko Inaoka, from the series Erna and Hrefna 09–10.
Girls in a high school sorority re-enacting a secret initiation ritual, Webster Groves, Missouri, 1944. Photo by Nina Leen for Life magazine.
Polaroid by Autumn de Wilde.
Still from Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975.
Via Assez Vu. Original source unknown.
Photo by Osamu Yokonami.
Polaroid by Autumn de Wilde.
Photo on the cover of Heart’s album The Road Home (1995, Capitol).
Photo by Paolo Roversi.
Decomposed nitrate film frame clippings from the Turconi Collection, via Laura Chenault
Winona Ryder as Abigail Willams in The Crucible, 1996.
Taylor Swift.
Still from Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970.
Still from Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970.
Source unknown.
Via the Summer Break Twitter.
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Log in to replyBackground update is what I like best on Rookie (among other things). This means new stock of wallpapers on my phone :D
Log in to replyYes ikr! Literally all my wallpapers are from rookie, so thanks, rookie.
Log in to replySame here, haha. With the background images and other photo-sets, I always have like 15 new awesome images saved in my computer (which I use as an picture-inspiration-desk-or-something)
Log in to replyYup, Rookie’s creepy and one-of-a-kind arts are lovable!
Log in to replyi love the backgrounds on rookie, especially the ones of the twins.
Log in to replyLove the X-ray photo of the hands but all are wonderful!
Log in to replyit’s so cool how this is always so wonderful and mysterious up here – for me that’s something important to be preserved in this modern world !
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Log in to replyWere any of the Polaroids by Autumn de Wilde digitally enhanced? I’ve been using the medium for a couple of years and think they’re great.
Log in to replyBeautiful as ever ♡
Log in to replyThe background images never fail to amaze me. <3 They always evoke such a great feeling.
Log in to replyI so wish I was a twin.
Log in to replyI love Ariko Inaoko’s photo series on the twin girls. All these backgrounds are just perf <3
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