re: Pictures from days gone by....

Those tracks make my eyes hurt.

Portrait of a Young Man With a Camera: The Story of Andreas Feininger’s Famous Portrait of Dennis Stock, 1951

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Andreas Feininger’s striking 1951 portrait of what, at first glance, might be a cowled cyborg—complete with mismatched lenses for eyes—is one of LIFE magazine’s most recognizable and frequently reproduced pictures. It’s one of those photographs that we feel we’ve known all our lives.

In fact, though, most of us likely know very little about why or how the photo came to be.

The picture first appeared in LIFE in a June 1955 issue of the magazine, a full four years after it was made. The partially obscured face in the photo belongs to a young Army veteran and photographer named Dennis Stock (1928–2010), who himself would go on to a storied, decades-long career behind the camera. The brief but telling text that accompanied this and a few other Feininger pictures in that 1955 issue explained why Feininger made the picture:

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 in the back of his mind he kept thinking about making a set of stylized portraits to show how the instruments men use at their work and play often become an almost indivisible part of the men themselves.

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Proofs

Macy's put the Dunn Brothers' Miniature Circus on display in its toy department, November 8, 1949. Billed as "The Biggest Little Show on Earth," it took 19 years to build and was valued at half a million dollars (nearly $6.5 million today).

Everything was made to scale and the seating capacity of the Big Top was 17,000.

Any pics of Oppenheimer sneering? Scowling? Or is he always portrayed as The Tortured Soul?

#pimp

Getting just a tad risqué there, Kafka! You got any Little Annie Fanny cartoons to share with the class?

A housewife poses with a week's worth of groceries in 1947. She spent $12.50 a week to buy all her groceries except milk. On this she managed to feed herself, her husband, her four-year-old twins and the family cat. Robert Wheeler / Time & Life Pictures

The Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, an American single-engine helicopter, was designed by Igor Sikorsky. Its original design featured a single three-blade rotor that was powered by a 75 horsepower (56 kW) engine.