But hey, web2.0, baby. I've got stuff that's rotting or damaged and yet I can give you the content. I've got stuff that's worthless but interesting and I can give you the content. Let's share some content.
That's The Theory.
These images are from Lands and Peoples - Volume III - The Near and the Middle East. The printing date is 1961, but first printing was 1938, and that's when I suspect the following images originate from.
They're very painterly - some are damn pre-raphaelite-ish. The originals are almost devoid of black as part of the four-color printing process - they're pastel - and beautiful as originals - but pretty much untranslateable without shipping it out to a company like Northern Micrographics (I guess that's where the GlyphJockey motto of "everything is for sale" comes into play - hah?)
Regardless they are sumptuous middle way images, of exotic cultures, and I'm going to do entries about this stuff until I've run through all the volumes I have.
(Obviously pics are links. I've also quit doing "target= "_blank"", which makes stuff open in a new window. Get Firefox already, and open stuff in new tabs by clicking on your wheel or your middle button.)
On to the images:
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| Bedouin Woman & Baby | Bedouin Girls |
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| Arabs Transporting a Woman | Climbing a Date Palm |
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| An Arab Woman | Romanian Calusare Dancers |
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| Romanian Peasant Family | Bulgarian Fruit Gatherer |
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| The Isker Valley | Yugoslavian Girl |
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| Desert Twilight | |
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| The Arch of Ctesiphon | |
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| Pamir Valley | |
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