Woman Sand Surfing, Oregon, 1941

There is no denying that when looking at old, vintage photographs, you can’t help but feel like everything was so much more beautiful back then. Regardless of what is actually in the picture, somehow, everything looks so much more authentic and poetic. We relate to photographs so differently these days…

Everything about this photo seems so surreal… The fact that a car like this is just driving on the sand, the background is blurred out, and this woman posing so effortlessly makes this image iconic. But we tend to romanticize many things from the past, and we can’t help but notice how unsafe this must have been. Just another reason why something like this would never happen today.