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This Street Photographer Uses Vintage 1860 Camera To Capture Pictures

Last Updated: July 03, 2023, 18:24 IST

Vintage camera from 1860 still in use by a street photographer in Jaipur. (Credits: Instagram)

Vintage camera from 1860 still in use by a street photographer in Jaipur. (Credits: Instagram)

The camera was a precious gift presented by the Maharaja of Jaipur to Tikam Chand’s ancestor, Pahari Lal.

In today’s time, the internet is flooded with selfies and portrait pictures, however, back in the day, visiting a professional photo studio was considered a luxury that many couldn’t afford. During those days, street photographers played a vital role and recently, the story of Tikam Chand, a third-generation photographer, has taken the internet by storm. He is seen using a

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35 vintage photos reveal what Los Angeles looked like before the US regulated pollution

A motorcyclist in Los Angeles prepares to turn while driving along a street that’s engulfed in a thick haze of fog and smog in 1958. Bettmann / Getty

  • Los Angeles has had air pollution problems since before smog was a term.
  • In 1943, smog covered the city so thickly that residents thought they were under a chemical attack.

The city of stars could be called the city of smog.

Los Angeles has had years of thick air pollution due to a ballooning population, unregulated industry, a booming car industry, and its natural geography.

In 1943, during World War II, pollution

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Vintage photos in NJ that deserve a second look

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Vintage photos from NJ that deserve a second look

A few years back, I wrote about when I was in a high school theater production in the 1970s and spent a great deal of time rehearsing a ‘double-take’ for one scene … a video of which is now available on the internet, showing it has to have been THE worst double-take of all time.

My problem was likely because I looked it up in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, which defines a double-take as “a delayed reaction to a surprising or significant situation after an initial failure

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VINTAGE PHOTOS: Throwback Thursday – Storm Photos

Storm water from Hurricane Georges covers the eastbound lanes of US Highway 98 on Okaloosa Island in this photo taken in September 1998 looking east toward Destin. Officials hope to have at least the westbound lanes open today for traffic in both directions between Destin and Fort Walton Beach. Daily News DEVON RAVINE

Storm water from Hurricane Georges covers the eastbound lanes of US Highway 98 on Okaloosa Island in this photo taken in September 1998 looking east toward Destin. Officials hope to have at least the westbound lanes open today for traffic in both directions between Destin and Fort Walton Beach. Daily News DEVON RAVINE

Northwest Florida Daily News

Vance Becklund and his mother-in-law, Paula Zitzelberger of St. Petersburg, nailing the last plywood board over the windows of his Navarre Beach home Saturday morning in preparation for Hurricane Georges in this photo from September 1998. Daily News TRACEY STEELE

Vance Becklund and his mother-in-law, Paula Zitzelberger of St. Petersburg, nailing the last plywood board over the windows of his Navarre Beach home Saturday morning in preparation for Hurricane Georges in this photo from September 1998. Daily News TRACEY STEELE

Northwest Florida Daily

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Iconic vintage NASA space photographs currently up for auction at artnet

NASA photographers during the 1960s captured intriguing glimpses of our universe as well as candids of the astronaut teams who explored it. These vintage prints are now up for auction until 12 January, with bidding already as high as $26,000.

The earliest dated images on the auction site collection were captured in 1965, with the latest dated as captured in 1984. The collection is titled ‘The Final Frontier: NASA Photographs from the 1960s’ and is live now with limited days remaining to bid.

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