Statesman; historian in houndstooth; guardian in rags
election
Election 2016: remember the old life underground
And vote.
Source: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006000152/. Photoshopped.
Secret service
From the archive of gaze: the address to posterity, the notebook preparing the archival entry, the spectacles anticipating the achievement of S. M. Eisenstein, the pistol in the pocket. Subject of the archive: the presidential election of 1908. Source of the image: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004002184/. Photoshopped.
And a montage element bridged in from the textbook of comparative anatomy:
Safety for the elect, 1937
Life magazine, 1937. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_williamson/13044373525/
Look upward, angel.
Educational exercise: look up the etymology of “candidate”
In this New York Times slide show of scenes from yesterday’s Republican primary in South Carolina, 100% of the faces I could see are white.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/01/22/us/politics/22candidates.html