Hard Luck (1921)

LIFE: Teen-Age Girls, 1944 by Nina Leen

Hans Mauli

24femme, Undate

From Hans Mauli / femmes series

Mick Jagger photographed by Robert Whitaker, 1966.

“Ballet dancing,” LIFE magazine told its readers in 1936, “is a hard, steady, painstaking job.”

Seen through Alfred Eisenstaedt’s lens, it is also a singularly beautiful pursuit. See for yourself here.

(Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Man and Woman #33, 1971 by Eikoh Hosoe

Horse trick

(via silent-musings)

André Kertész

Quartier Latin, Paris, 1926

From his book On Reading

Thatcher era romance: A couple kiss during the UK poll tax riots in 1990 (David Hoffman Photo Library / Al/Alamy)

Nina Simone

Michael Caine

The car that has everything.

(Ed Clark—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

William Klein

Cine-poster, Tokyo, 1961