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Lincoln Zephyr, bare naked. 

Lincoln Zephyr, bare naked. 

Belstaff Roadmaster Pro, vintage 70’s

Belstaff Roadmaster Pro, vintage 70’s

1955 Bisiluro - Carlo Mollino

1955 Bisiluro - Carlo Mollino

Evelyn McHale’s suicide captured by photographer Robert Wiles
Life Magazine caption:
On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure.

Elegance never left her.

Evelyn McHale’s suicide captured by photographer Robert Wiles

Life Magazine caption:

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure.

Elegance never left her.

(Source: moleculess)