Mondays in NY can be a real pain in the butt when it's raining and it's cold as it happened yesterday.I say it can be a pain because all the Museums and galleries are closed and theres not much to do other than being at home.
In these cases i just go to the libraries or second-hand bookstores to spend my day, thus yesterday i decided to visit the bookstore at the International Center of Photography, where you can find the most amazing books about photography in town.There was a whole section dedicated to airplanes and Amelia Earhart that kept my attention. I knew this brilliant aviator from before but just from some pictures and some mentions here and there.
I spent almost an hour flipping through all the books about her.My favourite was the one tittled Amelia Earhart, Image and Icon published by the ICP itself. Her personality, her style, her persona, came through all the amazing pictures that are shown in this book. I was amazed about the look of this slender and superb woman, her smile and her grip and her interesting life.
A woman that defended the independency of women in society, and criticized those who claimed we (women) couldn't do anything more interesting than knitting.. She flew around the world all by herself... and she even founded a fashion house!This year is Amelia's anniversary, 70 years since her disappearance over the Pacific in 1937.
4 comments:
Her story is fantastic! Great post!
No tenía ni idea de que había fundado una casa de moda. Y aunque ya te pilla un poco lejos, acabo de leer la entrevista, y me identifico totalmente contigo en lo de ser española. Mientras estoy aquí lo odio, y no veo el momento de irme. Pero cuando estoy fuera, no se porqué, pero hablo continuamente de España. Incluso me ofende cuando hablan mal de ella, cosa que yo hago constantemente.
i love old pictures.
Wow, beautiful pictures
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