50 Rare Historical Photos That You Probably Haven’t Seen Before

#21 Showgirls Playing Chess Before A Show , 1958
"However, visual images are also inaccessible for the same reasons that they are accessible. The apparent legibility of the image hides its historical construction, the ways in which the image was made, distributed, and read at the time it was produced and since." Pegler-Gordon added that to become better at reading images, we must become informed about the history and the theory of images.