Ava Norring, 1955

by Tsuneko Sasamoto / 笹本恒子
Politician, Inejiro Asanuma / 政治家 浅沼稲次郎 (1955)

25th November 1955: After leaving the ‘Club Americana’, a Saturday night jazz club open from midnight until 7am, American troops and their girlfriends say goodbye in Piccadilly Circus

Willy Ronis     Salle des Pas Perdus de la Gare Saint Lazare, Paris     1955

Bettmann. 47th Street and Broadway. New York. 1955

In Union Square I see you for a moment
red green yellow searchlights cutting through
falling flakes, head bent to the wind
wet and frowning, melancholy, trying

I know perfectly well where you walk to
and that we’ll meet in even greater darkness
later and will be warm.

- Frank O’Hara

A waitress in a diner taking a break between orders, 1955.

Photo: Elliott Erwitt via Jackson Fine Art

Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando photographed by Milton Greene for a benefit for the Actors Studio, 1955