What is about smoking? Is it just that marketing has captured hold of the consumers over the years? Set up to grasp ahold of the teenage rebel population? Is it the status symbol it created in years past, or the essence of sexyness established by famous people such as, Marilyn Monroe? Everyone knows it causes cancer, its addicting, and can cause harm to you and everyone else you surround yourself with...yet people continue to light up everyday? How is it that something that was created over 18,000 years ago is still a big influence in our day to day life? Through the decades photographers continue to capture the secret moments and disturbing realities of a cigarette whether it makes smoking sexy, desirable, or exposes the shocking secrets behind the bud; it is something that will be present for many more years to come.
Antique Civil War Era Tintype
Photo A Man with A Pipe Looks Like Rebel Pants 1800's
Little Boy Smokeing in a hat and sailor suit 1800's
vintagephoto: tough kids smoking cigarettes
on the streets of st. louis, missouri.1910
Raggedy Andy (1938) July 1938.
"Young boy in Baltimore slum area." Potential model for the A&F catalog.
Medium-format nitrate negative by John Vachon.
JOSEPH SZABO
Priscilla, 1969
Priscilla, 1969
JOSEPH SZABO
Priscilla, 1969
JOSEPH SZABO
Priscilla, 1969
Sally Mann
‘Candy Cigarette’1989
from the series Immediate Family
© Sally Mann. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
Valdese, North Carolina, 1990
photo_mary ellen mark
Sarah Lucas
(born 1962)
Date 1998
Photo taken on: January 25th, 2011
BCritchley
"mood of smoking pt8", Photography, 2012, 13 x 18 cm
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