Inside Lascaux: Rare, Unpublished (cave drawings - link only)

LIFE ^ | September 8, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

Link only: An 'orse, of course

[decimon]

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[Celtic Cross]

Its um...Lovely...

[agere_contra]

It’s pretty good.

But because it’s not demeaning nor insulting to the human psyche, and (horror) it actually looks like something, it won’t win any prizes.

[decimon]

Its um...Lovely...

Do I detect some note of disapproval in your reply?

[JoeProBono]

[decimon]

It’s pretty good.

A lot gooder than I can do.

[Ditter]

I have been to Vichy France, had I known these were near there..........

[Celtic Cross]

It kinda’ looks like a hotdog....So actually, is IS lovely!

[Red_Devil 232]

Morse: "But once the lights were turned on ... wow!"

I will agree ... WOW!

Thanks for this post the photos are grand. I wonder why all the photos of the people were in black and white and the photos of the cave paintings are in color? Cost?

[decimon]

I wonder why all the photos of the people were in black and white and the photos of the cave paintings are in color?

I think the ones in color are current, the others from the late 1940s.

[Red_Devil 232]

I think you are right about the color photos in the article. But Morse did take color photos of the paintings this is one:

Cave Painting, Lascaux, Dordogne, France. Photo by Ralph Morse for Life Magazine, 1947

[Red_Devil 232]

This is one of his photos also!

[decimon]

Hmmm...the color looks too good that era. To me, anyway.

[Red_Devil 232]

Take a look at my home page. The color photos of my mom holding me were taken in 1948 by my father.

[SunkenCiv]

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[To Hell With Poverty]

Ha ha, the upper paleolithic rune on the end there looks a little like the Van Halen logo.

[null and void]

Well duh. It’s rock...

[To Hell With Poverty]

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Lascaux: Versailles of Prehistory

September 12, 1940. A warm afternoon in southwestern France. As two schoolboys hunt rabbits on a ridge covered with pine, oak, and blackberry brambles, their dog chases a hare down a hole beside a downed tree. Widening the hole, removing rocks, the boys follow -- and enter not merely another world, but another time. Underground, they discover "a Versailles of prehistory" -- a series of caves, today collectively known as Lascaux, boasting wall paintings up to 18,000 years old. In 1947, LIFE's Ralph Morse went to Lascaux, and became the first photographer to ever document the astonishing, vibrant paintings. Here, on the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the cave and its treasures, in a gallery featuring rare and never-published photographs, Morse -- still vibrant himself at 93 -- shares with LIFE.com his memories of what it was like to encounter the long-hidden, strikingly lifelike handiwork of a vanished people: the Cro-Magnon. Above: A panorama of creatures along a wall at Lascaux.

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