Joy, Urban, Women

LITTLE ITALY BABE SISTERS

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Little Italy Babe Sisters, NYC, 2000

Photo and text by Bruce Berman
(Disclaimer on this post’s title: Spare me, I don’t care!)


In the middle of chaos, glory! Three sisters. Puerto Ricaños. Read their personalities! It’s right there. Happy. Proud. Sexy. Confident. Even the waiter is having fun. A lazy wandering day, sitting at a street cafe in Little Italy at a tiny round table, slurping Italian Ices, with friends, Abraham Verghese and Irene Connelly, heading to the U.S. Open. Happy day for me, tennis, before the political deluge of now.
Photography works in a lot of ways but the best of all is memory.

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1910s, Mexico, Women

ADELITAS

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  • A female revolutionary in Mexico. Circa 1912-1913
  • Soldaderas, before a battle, 1911
Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty
A group of rebel women and girls practice their shooting skills during the Mexican Revolution. 1911.

I have always been -and still am- amazed by the Adelitas that followed and fought with the revolutionary army during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920.
Interesting that we’re having a controversy over including women in the draft.
The Adelitas volunteered.

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Cars, Documentary Photography, OWI, Women

HOPPING CARS

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July 1942. “Chevy Chase, Maryland. Serving supper to motorists at an A&W Hot Shoppes restaurant
on Wisconsin Avenue, just over the District line,” by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information

Read More: https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/collinsessay.html

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Art, Culture, Patriotism, Women

GYPSY ROSE

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1941 publicity photo for Gypsy Rose Lee’s

first novel, The G-String Murders.


Article by Bruce Berman
Gypsy Rose Lee was the most famous “stripper” ever. She started out in Burlesque at seven years of age in 1921, transitioned from Vaudeville to Burlesque and was the premier act in the legendary Minsky’s Burlesque. She appeared in sixteen motion pictures, numerous TV shows and authored the book Gypsy in 1957. The book led to the all time great Broadway play Gypsy and she was a ubiquitous personality in multiple media for over five decades.
Very early in World War II, Gypsy Lee was active in promoting patriotism and supporting the troops. In magazine articles she praised American servicemen and even offered to send an autographed pin-up portrait to any GI who asked for one. She encouraged women to take jobs in the war industry and participated in a benefit to raise money for an organization that provided child care. Gypsy performed at dozens of USO shows in a 1943 tour that visited forty Army and Navy posts across the country.
Lee died in 1970. The play “Gypsy” is still played in major and minor productions and still draws audiences worldwide. There haven’t been many like her -if any- since.
One of her best-known quotes is, ” If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly.”

 

 

 

 

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Conflict, Documentary Photography, Middle East, Photography That Matters, social displacement, The Human Condition, War, Women

Andrea Bruce Shoots You In The Heart

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Ingushetia by Andrea Bruce

Andrea Bruce is a passionate, stylish, skilled documentary photography who’s images -in the best traditions of still photography- sear your soul and drive their point through your heart, restoring it instead of terminating it. She is the new breed of documentary photographer that blends all the skills of good journalism with all the skills of great graphic image-making and produces a coctail that is nothing less than photo alchemy.

Take a look: http://www.andreabruce.com

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