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"This is my maternity leave hobby. While my baby is taking her nap, I try to imagine her dream and capture it." Via SpaceInvading.
Related to the last. Carl Corey's Wisconsin Tavern League, Installments 1-4. Light, atmosphere, composition and longnecks. Fab.
This is the official Flickr account of the British Monarchy.
Stormy Skies.
From photographer Tom Hussey, A Day at the Dog Show.
"It's definitely the end of an era." Photographer Steve McCurry spends two months shooting with the very last roll of Kodachrome. Thanks Henry.
Vroom. Grain Edit on Laurent Nivalle's fab photography of the Le Mans Classic 2010 and Saul Bass's opening titles forGrand Prix.
Layer Tennis champion Chris Glass spills a secret (well, one of many) to his terrific photos: a free Photoshop action set called Vintage Film Effect.
Photographer Siegfried Wittenburg looks back on forbidden photos of everyday life in East Germany. Via Nick Denton.
From photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance.
Photographer Barbara Crane's Chicago Loop series from 1976-78. Sublime. Via Conscientious.
New York City from above.
Gorgeous photos by Bae Byung-Woo.
"...what does it mean to say that reality looks Photoshopped?" German photographer Julian Faulhaber, in the TMN Galleries, Low-Density Polyethylene.
Related to DW's bird post below, stunning hi-def photos of birds by Andrew Zuckerman.
Citizen-fan Alan Light photographed a slew of celebs in his day, but this set of Polaroids from the 1976 premiere of A Star Is Born is pure, fuzzy gold.
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players, Leon Levinstein's NYC photographs, 1950-80. Via gmt+9 (-15).
The mirrors and I, making the cover for CR's Illustration Annual.
The only thing more fun than riding old trains is looking at pictures of them.
This is not America.
Summer is here.
An interesting read on what it's like to work with collodion photography.
From photographer Laura Blight, The Human Trace.
For a shot of wayback, DOCUMERICA, the EPA-commissioned photography project from 1971-77. Via HOW.
Photos taken by LIFE photographer David E. Scherman in and around Piccadilly, London, during the wartime blackout, February 1944. Via Doobybrain.
Astronauts, a photo series by Hunter Freeman. Awesome.
Since the book costs $1000 and there will only be 1,500 made, flipping through it online might be your best bet: Taschen's Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967.
Glastonbury Festival 2010.
Amazing underwater photos of surfers from photographer Mark Tipple, The Underwater Project.
Life magazine has some never-seen- before photos from The Korean War.
Over 600,000 CDs were put into position by hand to create a sea.
From fab photographer Jan von Holleben, Journey to Everywhere.
From photographer Jamey Stillings, his gorgeous series The Bridge at Hoover Dam.
Images from the world's most failed states, Postcards from Hell.
"In 2009, it will be among the last settlements to be evacuated of people and submerged under the waters of the Three Gorges Dam, uprooting its inhabitants forever. Kaixian, the 1800 years of my childhood home's history, expunged."
For BB, football fields around Europe.
Photographer Joshua Hoffine is interested in the psychology of fear and explores that in his horror photography
Ridiculously cute pictures of babies learning to swim. Via MeFi.
"I've always loved this building. Sid Barnett's Machine Shop. No one on the mountain can remember it being open. Today I finally stopped and took a few pics." Via Dinosaurs & Robots.
Gorgeous photography from Michael Napper, Objects/Still Life.
Fab portraits from everywhere, the photography of Reed Young. Check "Life After Sumo," and "Sturgis." Via 40fakes.
Opening weekend at the 2010 World Cup.
Li Wei's people are flying all over the place.
To go with Acquired Taste and Tastespotting, check Pretty Foods & Pretty Drinks. When's lunch?
Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids, taken between 1979 and 1984. Thanks Henry.
"Over a four-year period Bain Hogg documented different aspects of the underworld, from exile in Tenerife to the broad spectrum of activity in the United Kingdom." The Firm. Some images NSFW.
Great work by the photographer Andrew B. Myers. Start with his latest for 2010 and go from there. Via Doobybrain.
Unintended Light, a photographic series by Zoltán Vancsó, text by Virág Böröczfy.
Photographer Dulce Pinzon's series The Magnificent Migrants.
The magic of a London night.
Unbelievable pictures of that giant sinkhole in Guatemala.
Yowza, big special New York City edition of Pictory, designed by Nicholas Felton and curated by Josh Haner. Best issue yet!
Photographer Alan George's series on mobile homes: Wheeled Estate. Via Doobybrain.
From photographer Alec Soth, Dog Days, Bogota.
Dennis Hopper, Behind The Camera And The Canvas.
"Between 1986 and 1990, I made approximately 8,000 color, Hasselblad images on the streets of Communist Europe." From photographer David Hlynsky, Communist Store Windows.
The Secret Life of Toys.
Photographic series by Juergen Chill. "Bordelle" and "Zellen" take an unconventional and claustrophobic perspective to document the lives of prostitutes and prisoners. "Remain Behind" is simple and devastating.
Mike and his friend traveled to Nepal and tried to drive a rickshaw 2000 miles to the bottom of India. Here is their trip in 3 minutes. Via This is Awesome.
From photographer Ross Mantle, In the Wake of the American Dream.
Oil reaches Louisiana shores.
Transit of ISS and Atlantis in front of the Sun.
Gillian Laub's newly-award winning photos chronicling the last few days of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Crackdown in Bangkok. Some images are disturbing.
What clouds look like from above.
The photography of Andrew Moore, take note of the Detroit series. Fab.
Great work from photographer Fulvio Bonavia, be sure to check out his Paris Market series. J'adore.
We are the family in the photo that came with your new picture frame, by Colin Nissan.
NatGeo's tumbler.
Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico.
From photographer Bryan Schutmaat, his series Heartland. Fab.
Conscientious asks what makes a great portrait photograph?
BDiF's Some destinations are moving away while others are approaching. The work of Swedish architectural photographer Rasmus Norlander.
Lynette and James love the movie Up. So, when they were having their engagement pictures taken, they decided to use the movie as their inspiration. Lovely.
Flooding in Tennessee.
From photographer Eugene Kuo, gorgeous photos of Uxbekistan.
Get Back In Your Book.
Smitten Kitchen's "Our Approach to Food Photos."
"As members of this generation pass away, their personal history becomes commodified; but this project counteracts the disposability of an accumulated life by prolonging the existence of the domestic environment and the items it contains." Forget Me Not.
One black olive? designer James Reynolds shows us what a real last supper looks like.
From photographer Abby Wilcox, her fab series Haight Space.
From National Geographic, photos showing the effects of the Gulf oil spill on land and wildlife.
"Over 5,000 men and women have died serving the United States in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. This is a project about who they were – sons, daughters, sisters, brothers – and the bedrooms which they once called their own." Bedrooms of the Fallen.
Jump!
Speaking of Polaroids, that's all JSM is shooting this month.
Find lots and lots more Polaroid links in our big, messy Photography archive including this Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film, created by Charles and Ray Eames.
Related. Wow, a man takes a Polaroid picture every day for two decades.
Related. "...essentially a one-of-a-kind object, like an oil painting or daguerreotype." Gone in Sixty Seconds, an excellent essay by Phil Patton for AIGA, on the legacy of Polaroid
Related. Pretty much any excuse will do for a relink to The Branding of Polaroid 1957-77, Paul Giambarba's first-hand account of the company's corporate image and product identity development. Required reading.
We would have visited for sure a few weeks ago. The Impossible Project Polaroid Store to open in NYC.
I could stare all day at A Continuous Lean's amazing and growing Kodachrome collection.
"I meet two or more people on the street who are strangers to each other, and to me. I ask them if they will pose for a photograph together with the stipulation that they must touch each other in some manner." Richard Renaldi's Touching Strangers.
"This panorama of San Francisco in ruins was taken by George R. Lawrence using a kite, on Monday 28th May 1906. This was about six weeks after the earthquake and fire which caused the devastation."
This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission.
Huge collection of photos of New York in the 1940's.
Hauntingly beautiful photographs of wrecked and abandoned airliners, The Fall. Via Beautiful/Decay.
Hubble 20th anniversary photos.
Signs of Use, a photo series by Andy Sawyer. Lovely.
So this is what is causing my allergies to go haywire this spring. Incredible microscopic images of pollen. Pretty, but can you please just go away?
"When we understand more about the realities of American power, we can make wiser choices about energy through conservation and civic action." From Susan Bell and Mitch Epstein, the fabulous What is American Power?"
"Waspy people doing waspy things in Connecticut. Summer of 1948 & 1949." Summer in Fairfield County Connecticut.
From photographer Andy Bloxham, his series Polaroids. Fab.
Stages of a Photographer (via Heather Parker)
Amazing pictures of the volcanic ash currently covering Europe.
Craig is scanning his life. Via Mig.
From photographer Martin Adolfsson, Suburbia Gone Wild.
"Open spaces become completely accessible then and reveal the details of a standardized world which usually escape us." From photographer Jean-Pierre Attal, Cells.
A stunning, curated Flickr gallery of the Icelandic volcano.
From 600,000-year old Siberian bacteria to two-leaved tree tumbo in the Namib desert, Rachel Sussman has travelled the world taking photos of ancient organisms.
Turn any Flickr set into a printed magazine with (current Deck advertiser) MagCloud's smart new feature.
360 Cities, panoramic photography. The "Editors Picks" is a good place to start.
Stuck in a creative rut? Head to your local library and wander through the stacks, choosing at random. Works for us every time.
Poland in Mourning.
Hypermarket by Denis Darzacq, in the TMN Galleries. Beautiful.
Two brothers took a picture of the recent earthquake in Mexico as it lifts a layer of dust off a mountain range. Wow.
"Of course you can tell by the age of these signs that the businesses were around for some time. That's the saddest part of it all." Pinkiestyle looks at two fading beauties in Columbus.
A look back at Youngstown.
The International Space Station flying through the Aurora at 28,000 kmh. Spectacular. Via @astro_Soichi.
Signs of Spring from The Big Picture. Beautiful, as always.
EmptyLA.
Where else can you find the "Australian contingent at Handoub", "Ching Hook in fighting attitude", or "Hiram Maxim's Glider"? It's The National Archives UK on flickr. Via A Continuous Lean.
Northeast Ohio is a signage fan's dream. Our personal favorite? The hand-painted signs at Alesci's, a nearby Italian grocery. There really is quite a bit to see on Ohio's north coast.
Either the greatest business team of all time or overuse of a stock photo.
With baseball season upon us - go Cleveland - the Library of Congress takes a look at our national pastime.
Easter celebrations around the world.
"she gave me a warm pat on the shoulder and complimented my friend on her beautiful smile, and then, as we were parting ways, she thanked me for doing this project. funny... because i thought i had her to thank." Joshua hearts strangers.
"Phone-sex is theatre. An artificial passion-play in real-time, directed by a skilled verbal fantasist, with only one possible conclusion." From photographer Phillip Toledano, PhoneSex.
The Big Picture: Earth Hour 2010.
Almost famous cats.
Amazing photos of insects covered in morning dew taken by an amateur, yes, amateur photographer. Via MeFi.
"Whereas prior series have juxtaposed humanizing details within the surrounding geometry of the urban landscape, in The Transparent City, his details are fragments of life--digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged--snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses: Edward Hopper meets Blade Runner." Photographer Michael Wolf's series on our hometown, The Transparent City.
President Obama looking at awesome things.
"At a walkthrough of an exhibition of the big collection, a young student asked, 'Why did I have to own them?' Deathless pause. 'Because then they're mine!' It is a monument to covetousness." Jörg Colberg chats with photography collector Bill Hunt, at the smartly redesigned and reformatted Conscientious.
Neighborhood Treasure, the hidden charms of 31 communities told in pictures and words. Another outstanding edition of Pictory.
Had this come a few weeks earlier, we could have used it for this ref video, but better late than never. The Impossible Project is set to release their new Polaroid film on Thursday. Thanks Henry.
Rivers seen from space.
NYCPP, New York City Polaroid Project by Andrew Faris.
"Essentially, it is a camera that - using a mobile communication device - takes other's photos. Photos that were created by someone who pressed a button somewhere at the same time as its own button was pressed." Via Jan Chipchase.
Sam O'Hare's "The Sandpit," a day in the life of New York City, in tilt-shift and time-lapse. Spectacular. Via John Nack.
Photographer Paul Octavious' stacked books series, The Book Collection. Via J-Walk.
"If you can smell the streets, it's a good photo." WNYC's mini-doc about photographer Bruce Gilden. So many good quotes and such an uncomfortable shooting style. Via Doobybrain.
Lego scenes and sins by legojeff.
On the Spot with Kim Jong-il.
For SD, Hipster Puppies.
2346 single photos stitched together to make the impressive interactive panorama Paris 26 Gigapixels. Autoplay music warning.
For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970's.
"The pictures were shot mainly in twilight. The magic hour, where the houses are shining as bright as the residual daylight in the sky and the colorful neon signs melt with the green-blue of the beginning night." On Tokyo- the future of urban living.
Southern Depictions, an exquisite set of black and white portraits by Donna Pinckley.
Chile, nine days later.
Gorgeous, check out photographer Michael Massaia's series Afterlife.
Frozen in flight and in time.
If the newest Polaroid Film you have at the studio has an expiration date in 2002, it's probably not going to work for that funny project you had in mind. Rats. Oh well, it does however provide an excuse to link to Paul Giambarba's excellent The Branding of Polaroid.
Another great series by photographer Chris Mottalini: The Mistake by the Lake, shots of makeshift winter enclosures built for kids waiting for the bus in Buffalo, NY.
A photographic journey showing how airplane food is made at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.
Chile, three days after the earthquake.
Old New York in a modern world.
Toy Story 365, a photo of a figure every day. Simple, fun and totally saturated.
"Before there was vinyl printing there were big brick walls and craftsmen who covered said walls with their commercial artwork." From photographer Jay B. Sauceda, Sign Painters. Be sure to check out the rest of his work, great stuff. Via SuperDuper.
These remind me of all the guys I used to hang out with in junior high, old school BMX photos.
Crochetdermy.
Just What Greg Schmigel Sees.
"What started out as an exercise in model building and photography, ended up as a dream-like reconstruction of the town I grew up in." Paul Smith's awesome Photos of My Models.
"These portraits of children confront us with reminders of our own childhood, whereby a homemade costume can transform you into a superhero, princess, cowboy or soldier, poised for adventures and hours of fun and excitement." The Birthday Party. Via SurfStation.
Backstage during Fashion Week.
"For me, the construction of panoramic photographs, comprised of various single images, acts as a visual language. Focal planes shift, panel by panel." -David Hilliard.
Issue 4 of the photo magazine Unless You Will is available for download.
Fab, a huge collection of photos of 1960's London. Via The Cartoonist.
Related to an earlier post, Olympic venues as seen from space.
"I am driven to ask people I meet on the street if I may take their picture." Stranger, a photo series by Benoit Paillé. Via Curved White.
"It was a small separate world, which had nothing to do with the surrounding reality. People literally lived there - from dancers to floor ladies and stage technicians." From photographer Gleb Kosorukov, The Last Days of the Bolshoj Theatre.
Ken Lee's photos of Japan's abandoned Battleship Island, which "remains untouched in the nearly forty years since its 5000 or so occupants vacated by boat, taking with them only a few scant possessions."
Two wars, five perspectives. Five photographers document the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, amazing work.
"Don't talk while dancing, for when a man dances, he wants to dance." Great scans of the bizarre Dating Guide for Single Women from 1938.
Very cool pictures of New York at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Lovely work from photojournalist Ikuru Kuwajima.
Lovely, Moth trails.
A portion of Polaroid's collection which includes works by Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol and founder Edwin H. Land is going up for auction in June.
Black and WTF, proof that the past was just as absurd as the present. Via bblinks.
Relinking From the Pocket, for Chicagoan Jeremy Edwards. seven tips.
Photographer and mathematician Nikki Graziano's Found Functions. Via J-Walk.
"It took two months to store up enough fireplace ash to create this lunar landscape. The darker rocks are made of mixed tile grout, flag crumpled paper & wire. The Earth is a video still projected onto the wall." Matthew Albanese makes detailed miniature models. Fantastic, via Notcot.
From photographer Jo Broughton, Empty Porn Sets.
From photographer Ryan McGinley, The Highfliers.
"All of the images featured on this site were captured using Apple's second-generation iPhone and Apple's iPhone 3Gs cameras. Images were processed using various iPhone photography applications only." Fab, from photographer Jeremy Edwards, iPhoneography.
@Astro_Soichi's twitpics from space.
"What these boards refer to lies outside the sphere of the pictures; we can only speculate. In addition, the billboards were also stripped of their writing and logos during postprocessing." Sign Out, by Josef Schulz. Via Peter Nidzgorski.
Amazing photos of a Russian power plant that exploded, then froze over.
Tough Guy Challenge 2010 .
Journey to the Center of Manhattan, a collection of photos of a rail construction project 100 feet below the city's surface. Unfortunately, no sightings of the Manhattan Pillar.
More remarkably lifelike miniature model photography, this time by artist Matthew Albanese. Via Design Info.
"Rubikon is a cut-out, which becomes a functioning camera (camera obscura) after putting together." Download the PDF and assemble yours.
For The Documerica Project, the Environmental Protection Agency hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems and life in the 1970s. Via Mefi.
Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow.
A brief history of the computer.
Michael Paul Smith's incredible scale model photography. Via Design Info.
"These photos attempt to capture the mystery and romance of this very pursuit-- the sincerity of the scientific endeavor, the pathos of its visible failure, and the beauty of the attempt to engage with nature." From photographer Debbie Carlos, her gorgeous and slightly unsettling series Human Nature.
A house moving in Chile. Via Archinect.
You can see from the page title why I stumbled on this set of photographs. A happy accident.
Amazing photos of Kamikaze strikes of WWII.
The Big Picture takes a look at two fiery festivals, Up Helly Aa and Feast of Saint Anthony the Great. Amazing.
From photographer Sandra Dyas, This Is Where I'm From.
Kevin's great photos of Marcel Breuer's Atlanta Fulton Country Library.
Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer recently visited Antartica and took lots of great photos.
Photographer Dennis Stock died last week. Maybe you don't know the name but you probably know the image. Found at the excellent Iconic Photos.
Sleeping on Tokyo streets.
I've been using Photoshop daily since 1988, but some of these shortcuts are totally new to me.
Some nice Utah 360-degree panoramas.
Antonia's beautiful photograms are now published in a book, Affectionately, which is dedicated "to the light and to the flowers."
Millennium Annular Solar Eclipse.
Coming Home, the latest showcase from Pictory. Fab.
Over at the TMN galleries, Hospice Behind Bars.
"The quality is pretty gritty, but I find them interesting, not the least because they are glimpses of these people without their artistic personas showing. Just another traveller submitting to the demands of the state." Passport photos of famous artists. Via MeFi.
From photography team Morini and Montanari, their series Lunch Special. Hmm, time to order lunch I think.
Earth's icy extremes seen from space.
Amazing work from photographer Matthew Albanese.
"For six weeks in 2005, photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen lived in a tiny sweltering room in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya." Planet Slum.
Hey, SD: $30 camera dolly made from an IKEA "Ivar" shelving side panel and skateboard wheels. Via Gizmodo.
Jörg Colberg on Photoshop before there were computers and The Art of Retouching and Improving Negatives and Prints.
Photographers have taken to packing guns in their camera bags to ensure their equipment is not lost during air travel. Thanks, Heather.
Upside Downy Face.
Great shots of the 2010 Dakar Rally (which was held in South America for some reason) from the always-great Boston Globe "Big Picture."
Dakar Rally 2010.
From photographer Peter Ross, William Burrough's stuff. Via Cool Hunting.
From photographer Karin Jurick, Museumgoers.
The Looking Into the Past gallery is always worth another look. For example, Someday My Cafe Will Come. Via A Whole.
Nick Veasey's x-ray art.
"Boonville connects six American small towns, their diverse landscapes, and unique individuals, into one unifying view of America." From photographer Timothy Briner Boonville.
Amazing photos of the Harbin Ice and Snow Scuplture festival.
A roll cloud over Uruguay.
From FotA Bill Keaggy: "This is a short film made from all of little video clips recorded when I accidentally tried to take a photo in video mode using my point-n-shoot." All the OOPS from 2009.
Matt Logue's eerie and beautiful series, Empty L.A..
He pointed "to a small photo album, embossed with the words Dubin at Work. I picked up the album and opened it, and my eyes nearly jumped out of my head."
A series of photos from underneath Paris, in several of the abandoned Metro stations known as Les Raccordements.
"100 photographs from one hundred different places around the world in risk of disappearing or seriously threatened by climate change." Via David Report.
Welcoming 2010.
Photographer Jim McGuire's Nashville Portraits, taken in the mid-1970s.
A nice tribute to "the man considered by many to be the greatest set photographer of all time." Goodbye, Bob Willoughby.
"Gloaming, or twilight, the time before sunrise and after sunset." Scotland in the Gloaming. Lovely.
The East Coast snow storm from space.
"In December 2006, I decided to capture historic photographers and their images in one 20"x24" print." Tim Mantoani's Behind Photographs.
Related to below: with a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) , here's the world's largest picture, taken on a rooftop in Dresden. Thanks Henry.
For KG, Homer.
The world's largest spherical panorama taken from Prague TV Tower.
From The Big Picture, the decade in news photographs.
Last Suppers, a series of photographs by James Reynolds documenting former Death Row prisoners' requests for their last meal before execution. Via Trecool.
Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film, created by Charles and Ray Eames.
Photographer Luke Humphrey's beautiful Going to California, "footage taken on a road trip from Seattle through California last winter, visiting Redwood, Sequoia, Yosemite, and Death Valley National Parks." Also proves that adding a little Boards of Canada always does the trick.
Mojave Desert fireball.
For BB, from photographer Jimmy Kets, Match of the Day.
Beautiful series of photos of cafes and nightlife in a particularly swinging City of Light: Paris, 1962, taken by former Vogue and Bazaar photographer Tom Palumbo. Via 2 or 3 Things.
Found while hunting around after hearing this story this morning: Eric Lafforgue's stunning photos of Eritrea, the former Italian colony in eastern Africa.
Henry writes about photographer W. Eugene Smith and his Jazz Loft project, "40,000 photographs, many of which were taken from a single vantage point out of a broken window pane."
Creepy Santa photos.
Pictory Showcase 2, San Francisco. Guest designer, our man Naz. Yay.
Life magazine picks their 2009 photos of the year.
Katarina's Dreamland. A photo set with geographic notes. Fantastic, as in fantasy.
Susanne Ludwig's Feasibility Fantasies. Photos and video loops. Via It's Nice That.
From photographer Robbie Cooper, his series Alter Ego in which he juxtaposes a photo of a real person with their online gaming avatar.
Lovely snowflake photos.
Legos on Hoth. Find out how he did it here.
Over the TMN galleries, FotA Brian Ulrich's Ghosts of Shopping Past.
Amazing, Into the Frozen Deep.
Seeing San Francisco by Zeppelin.
From photographer David Bowman, State Fair.
Gentlemen of Bacongo, Daniel Tamagni's photos of "the 'Sapeurs', the elegant and immaculately dressed dandies from the heart of the Congo." Via Design Info.
A chat with Adam Voorhes about his photographic "Exploded" Project.
Related to below: Lauren Greenfield's book Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood is still near the top of my list for favorite photography collections.
Dubai's Improbable Tale, photographer Lauren Greenfield's view of the rise and fall of the place that was once "more Las Vegas than Las Vegas." Via Archinect.
100 Days in Glacier National Park.
It's just an hour old and it's the best new photo site of the year, Laura Brunow Miner's Pictory.
Photos from a marijuana harvest.
"Guttenfelder is the chief Asia photographer for The Associated Press and over the past seven years has offered the general public a close-up, intimate look at the lives of troops fighting in the mountains and remote regions of Afghanistan."
Glasgow in panorama, photographs taken in 1907.
"In 1973, Gladys accepted a job as a math teacher at the Gelinas Junior High School on Long Island. Growing up in America as part of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, Gladys strongly believed in the moral values of The United States and was forever optimistic about her future; a belief held by the majority of Americans in the 1950's." From photographer Thomas Holton, check his series After 35 Years Gladys is Retiring.
"I should say it is the most complicated photograph I have ever made..."
Great collection of photos of Former Fotomats.
Hey SD, check these amazing photos of the most beautiful places in China.
Entries from the National Geographic's International photography contest 2009.
Apropos of nothing. Charity, a candid pic by Paul Russell.
Crescent Earth from the departing Rosetta spacecraft.
From photographer Lori Nix, Accidentally Kansas.
"These prints were recently uncovered by Denver Post librarians, tucked away in a folder in a file cabinet. The captions were hand written on the back of each print." Gorgeous prints of Native American Indians from the early 1900's. Via Cynical C.
Stereoviews of late 19th and early 20th century Japan. animated.
Anders has an ongoing project where he takes pictures of his hometown at sunrise, Good Morning Malmo.
Los Angeles without traffic.
With 20 body colors and 5 grip colors to choose from, you should have no trouble picking out your favorite combo for your new Pentax camera. Via Materialicious.
Don't quite fully understand this photo set, but I like it none the less: Every Book G.M. Stewart Has Given Me. Via 2 or 3 Things.
Twitter's new headquarters as shown off by employees.
Watching the H1N1 flu pandemic.
Bunch of interesting info collected over at MeFi about Michael Lesy's book Wisconsin Death Trip. Had no idea it was also made into a film, by Man on Wire's James Marsh no less. Via J-Walk.
In the silver moonlight growing thou wilt see a pale-eyed flower.
Nice shot of a crescent Earth.
The stunning photos in Andrew Zuckerman's series Bird. Worth it to watch the "Behind the Scenes" video to see how he got the shots. Via, as coincidence would have it, Byrdhouse.
Photographer Mark Menjivar's series, looking into people's refrigerators, You Are What You Eat. And an interview with Menjivar about the project.
Hong Kong- Day and Night.
Four Days in Dubai.
A Stonehenge panorama.
From photographer Li Wei, lovely photos of the people of Inner Mongolia, The Earth.
A very touching photo essay chronicling Scottish photographer David Eustace's 3 week road trip through the US with his daughter: In Search of Eustace. Via 2 or 3 Things.
For BB, photos of The Clash playing a gig in London in 1979.
From photographer Salva Lopez, L'Aquatic.
For BB: Everyone who has played or coached for Arsenal from 1913 to 2006, together in one very large group photo. Via Denver Egotist.
"This is how an American soldier is made."
Satellite eye on Earth: October.
So fab, photos of the very lucky 6000 people who had breakfast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Last days of Gourmet.
Blue sun bristling.
"Situated at the base of sacred Mount Fuji, the dark, grotesque and eerily silent forest of Aokigahara is the worlds leading suicide destination. Often depicted in Japanese literature as haunted and deathly, it was described in Waturu Tsurumi's The Complete Manual of Suicide as 'The Perfect Place to Die.'"
Days of the Dead.
The Sea of Salty Lakes.
Halloween in the time of Cholera.
"This work began through my own travels in Vietnam with my Vietnamese cousins, from whom I had been separated for thirty years. As members of the burgeoning middle class in Vietnam - wealth made possible by the movement of global capital - they dragged me to gaudy amusement parks that cater to locals with disposable income. As a wholly socialized American, I dragged them to places like Khe Sanh battlefield and China Beach." Via Mint.
Afghanistan, October 2009.
The fabulous Eyewear Set from the fabulous Superbomba.
Everyday objects under the x-ray machine.
Stitching old photo booth photos together to form fun animated gifs.
"Between 1986 and 1990, I made approximately 8,000 color, Hasselblad images on the streets of Communist Europe." David Hlynsky's brilliant series, I Shop: Communist Era Store Windows. Via gmtPlus9 (-15).
Photographer Anthony Powell reports that the sun and the people have returned to Antarctica. Also, don't miss his time-lapse of flying by helicopter back to McMurdo Station.
Building the Golden Gate Bridge.
From photographer Eugene Kuo, gorgeous photos of the Labrang Monestary in Xiahe, China.
Ross Mantle's In the Wake of the American Dream. Via Conscientious.
In 1968, photographer Howard Bingham spent six months photographing the Black Panthers which he has chronicled in his new book, Black Panthers 1968. Check out a really great interview with him here.
Alex's dad was a pilot and he took pictures of his travels. Here's Prague 1968-1969. Via Design You Trust.
Burning Man 2009.
Some old photos of Chicago. Via Gapers Block.
Moscow in the 1960's.
Super Heroes in war photos. Via MeFi.
Not to be a Debbie Downer or anything, but "These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young."
The Landscape photo of the year 2009.
Artforms of nature.
Agan Harahap's photography project called Super Hero consists of memorable political and wartime scenes from the mid-20th century featuring beloved superheroes.
"Susan Anderson creates terrifying photographs that document the bizarre world of child beauty pagents." Creepy.
So great, check out photographer Jan Banning's series Bureaucratics.
With new management at Polaroid (and Polaroid fans rebooting an old film factory) One Step cameras and film will be back in mid 2010. Which gives us another excuse to link to The Branding of Polaroid.
From photographer Christian Chaize, Praia Piquinia.
The Illusion of Sex.
Lost Istanbul: 1950s and 60s, photographs by Ara Güler.
Where automobiles went to die.
Crossing a microscope with a camera gives you a micrograph, a tiny photograph that allows artists and scientists to show the beauty inaccessible to the naked eye.
Superbomba asks "Who would win in the ultimate gang war?" It's a tough call but I sure wouldn't want to tangle with this group.
From photographer Nick Delaney, Urban Landscapes.
Has tilt-shift jumped the shark?
Swiss Cheese Makers, a photography series by Fabian and Istvan Scheffold.
The Vault by Neil Pardington. Via NOTCOT.
The winners of the Best BLT Photo contest. Via J-Walk.
Photographer Lisa Jack's series Barack Obama: The Freshman, taken at Occidental College in 1980.
Glued: 1963.
The international space station over Earth.
A day at the circus.
If you have not been around the CP studio, you would not know that BB and I have joined JC in having recently been prescribed glasses. We play it off as "oh, yeah, glasses are cool" But the fact remains, if someone takes a pic of us, we might as well be eligible for Photos of Old People.
Saturn at Equinox.
Gorgeous but super creepy, photos of the abandoned Pilgrim State Asylum.
A photo series featuring Miranda July posing as extras from classic films. Thanks Jennifer.
Cool behind the scenes video from NatGeo on making a composite photo of an entire redwood. Via TMN.
Fantastic aerial photography by Jason Hawkes. Via Cult of Mac.
Merkelizer.
"The aim is to produce a photograph that is "faithful to the subject", where the emphasis is placed on description rather than interpretation." Record Pictures.
"In each city Ami asks 50 of its inhabitants to hand-draw a map to a place of their choosing, a place that is significant or important to them personally, for any reason. She then uses the maps to navigate to each location and take a photograph to represent each location." Paris 48°49N 2°29E.
"Step out of your comfort zone to a new level of portrait photography: take 100 portraits of people you don't know." The 100 Strangers project. You can check out the group pool here.
Nice work from photographer Kate Hutchinson, be sure to check out her Irish Grandmother series.
Nick's elegant shot of where we went bowling last Friday.
More shots of yesterday's massive dust storm in Sydney. Looks downright apocalyptic. Via Peachfuzz.
Today, designers (like me) who convinced themselves iStockphoto wasn't hurting the photography industry get a chance to rethink their rationalizations.
"As I write this, there's an insane dust storm that's sweeping over Sydney." Red Dust, a photo set assembled by Tom Coates. Via Waxy.
Gorgeous photography from Brian Bielmann.
Photoset of the moment: Cuba Landscapes.
Senior class picture from the White House. Smile everyone. Via Swampland.
"This is a list of all* the people I have portroided (*not all)." Via Mefi.
PhotoInduced has uncovered all the original tapes of the 1978 TV program Talk About Pictures. Hosted by Life photographer Leigh Wiener and sidekick George Fenneman, the show interviewed photographers, both amateur and professional, about their work and their process. The site has has assembled this series of clips to help generate interest in hopes of getting all 130 episodes re-released. Via Design Info.
"Living With Taxidermy" at Kenny Trice photography. Via Conscientious.
If you still have your glasses laying around from viewing our 3D experiment with the Ref, put 'em on now for this huge collection of anaglyphs.
Horrible engagement photos which inevitably lead to weddings and then awkward family photos. Via DO.
Dust, a photography/art collaboration between Ujin Lee and Tom Edwards.
Awesome photos of cave diving.
The reason for multiple bowling-related links posted this week will be revealed later. For now, enjoy some bowling alleys.
Amazing, Normandy 1944- Then and Now.
"These photographs are taken on an 8" x 10" camera and the negatives are scanned to produce digital chromogenic prints. The exhibition prints measure approximately 4' x 5' and are available in an edition of seven." Would love to see these in real life. Record Pictures, photography by Michael Collins. Thanks Marshall.
Some images from the 2010 Lego charity calendar.
You might be tired of tilt shift photography, but I'm not.
Ryan McGinley's Moonmilk photo series shot in caves around North America.
The photography portfolio of Jason Florio, lots to appreciate, especially the series on Beijing artists. Via Heading East.
I forgot to eat lunch today and just saw Matt's delicious post at 37. Mmm Scanwiches.
Life imitates art..
Rare photo of a Snow Leopard. No, not that Snow Leopard.
Some really great photos of rice terraces.
"So rapidly is the landscape of the city transforming that at the time of writing this statement, the oldest among these photographs is just a year old and is already outdated as a piece of documentary evidence." Bangalore: Steady State 2012.
Discovery's Rainbow.
From photographer Danny Wills, Brooklyn on a Bike.
I'm tired of seeing tilt shift everywhere lately, but these toy soldiers really do it justice.
Photos of Hong Kong, then and now, Old HK Island. Via MeFi.
90 years of air travel. Via Look At This.
Relink. "After several days without seeing a wild one he had to be talked out of renting a trained fox to run through the streets for the camera." Something, Something, Something, Detroit, Vice Mag on why "lazy journalists love pictures of abandoned stuff."
An anonymous wedding photographer documents her meals.
A Dark Sky over Sequoia National Park.
50 Photos from air travel's glory years. Via Neatorama.
A collection of photographs and photo illustrations by Jan Dibbits.
Revisiting Stormtroopers 365 to see the newest shots.
"Si Dios Quiere... which means 'If God Wants', attests to the fact that relationships are inherently difficult. Closer proximity to the people we love can be just as complex as distance."
A selection from Richard Ross' Waiting for the End of the World featuring photos of bomb shelters across the world (though mainly in the American states you'd figure they'd be in). Had no idea that building a shelter is mandatory in Switzerland.
Morning Glory clouds over Australia.
Erupting volcanoes on Earth, as seen from space.
From photographer Carissa Russell, Ruined Nation.
Pulp Art Book by Neil Krug. A collaboration with model Joni Harbeck using expired Polaroid film and an amazing eye for style. Via Made in England.
So you know, Urban Outfitters is selling a limited edition 700 hand-numbered deadstock Polaroid camera kits starting tomorrow.
Wolfgang Uhlig's ocean photographs. Keep hitting 'next'.
Reiner Riedler's Fake Holidays.
Rare Star Wars photos.
Something, Something, Something, Detroit. Lazy journalists love pictures of abandoned stuff.
Forty years after the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, photographer Elliott Landy describes the event and the photos he shot there.
"We take it in turns to photograph a word made of things, each word somehow relates with the word that has gone before." We Make Words.
The Milky Way over the Badlands.
"Leica à la carte enables buyers to put together their own unique camera, with more than four thousand variations." Via Daily Icon.
A collection of photos of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers and their writing spaces; Where I Write.
Richard Mosse's large-format photographs of Saddam Hussein's palaces, converted into military camps. Thanks Henry.
A spectacular photo essay from David Zaitz, Rust Belt 2009.
Amazing photos of the devastating damage and flooding in China and Taiwan caused by Typhoon Morakot. Can't get number 29 out of my head.
Navy helicopter by Andreas Feininger, 1949.
AFC on The Nine Eyes of Google Street View. Via Today and tomorrow.
I've lived on a dirt road all my life.
Lawrence Harley "Larry" Luckham's great photos of Bell Labs in the 1960s. Lots of retro computing goodness.
Astroid impact craters on Earth as seen from Space.
"A postcard series documenting the New York city break of some indescribably horrible tourists."
The Crystal plant of Gus-Khrustalny.
AgeMaps by Bobby Neel Adams, "a jump-of-time is established at the tear."
"We had a massive lightning storm in Toronto last night. I set my camera to do 15 second exposures at 17 seconds intervals for three hours and from 660 shots more than 60 of them had lightning in them." Via Blurbism.
Collected Clouds.
Take a look inside a Soviet Northern Fleet B-413 submarine.
Photographs by Aaron Schuman, Once Upon a Time in the West "photographed on the eroding sets and locations of Sergio Leone's celebrated 1960's 'Spaghetti Westerns.'" Via gmt+9m(-15).
"The journey to the top of Mount Snowdon begins five miles below in Llanberis station, where Britain's only rack-and-pinion mountain railway train waits to be boarded.
Fires around the Mediterranean.
Some very, very very small cars.
"Danbo and I plot to invade the world! First Boston, Paris and Normandy, soon England... what next!"
So great, from photographer Kevin Tachman, his series Route 66.
CP's beloved hometown as viewed from the sky.
Chicago, from the top of a huge construction crane.
600 costumes from Comic-Con.
Some photos of exploding water balloons.
Photos from 2009 Tour de France.
Invading the Vintage.
Explanation of each part of the NorCal Super Dead Drop, a complicated, two day, photography-based scavenger hunt in Northern California.
PetaPixel interviews Sam Javanrouh whose Daily Dose of Imagery is a long-time bookmark and one of our fave photoblogs anywhere.
A collection of really great train-related photos.
"People who shoot film simply do because they choose to, and the photo culture of Tokyo is full of film camera users. When I meet them out on the streets I ask to photograph their camera, and usually post it here the same day." Tokyo Camera Style.
Flags from London.
Forget the shots, and the copier at your office Holiday party, check out I Bum.
Photographer Jennifer Greenburg's series The Rockabillies, documenting people who chose to live in the past.
Winners posted from the Eye on the Strand Photography Contest. Love the Grand Prize shot and this finalist too.
"Yeah, I like people... more or less." Lee Balterman's Chicago. 60 years in black and white. More here.
Prcssd, a luscious set of super-saturated and manipulated pix, by Kevin Balluff. Via X-Factor-E.
Vincent Fournier's Space Project photos.
Battlespace, a collection of photographs and photographers' stories from Iraq and Afghanistan.
"A Woman's Camera in a Woman's World," a piece about photographer Lillian Bassman from the April, 1951 issue of Popular Photography. Via Design Info.
Photographer Frederic Lezmi's series From Vienna to Beirut, "searching for the border between Europe and the Orient."
West Norwood Cemetery catacombs. Via Look at This.
An explanation of NYU's dark flash photography, which uses infrared and ultraviolet light instead of the familiar quick, bright flash.
A series of HDR shots of the Christo-like curtains hanging from Chicago's El tracks.
Acck! There is no need for this sort of thing.
LIFE magazine goes inside today's KKK.
For BB, check out photographer Stephan Zirwes series Fields.
Moons and Jupiter.
From photographer Christophe Beauregard, Technomades 2008.
Director Mark Romanek's photo blog makes it seem like it would be fun to be Mark Romanek.
Photos from the commute between New Haven and Manhattan in 1961, newspapers, cigarettes, bartenders and all.
For SD. "Have you ever seen a picture that simply makes no sense. Here we have collected pictures from around the web that left us scratching our heads and saying 'wut'." Explain This Image.
What's in my dorm fridge?
Warning, some photos are disturbing. Ethnic clashes in Urumqi, China.
From photographer Christoph Morlinghaus, amazing photos of Mega-Churches. Via CoolBoom.
"Dark Zoo" by Nicolas Evariste. As Rands points out, "everything looks better in black and white." Gorgeous.
A robot does the laundry and lots of other interesting things in Thomas Jackson's photo series. Via Conscientious.
A post-interview JJ Abrams geeks out about camera gear.
Underwater fairytale.
What would be a very funny joke from our friends over at Zacuto, except that it isn't one: the Zgrip iPhone Pro, a stabilizing handgrip system for shooting video on your phone.
Mount Rushmore's starry night.
"Robert Buelteman works indoors in total darkness, forsaking cameras, lenses, and computers for jumper cables, fiber optics, and 80,000 volts of electricity. This bizarre union of Dr. Frankenstein and Georgia O'Keeffe spawns photos that seem to portray the life force of his subjects as the very process destroys them."
So you know, 10 fascinating last pictures taken.
Gah! A huge collection of gorgeous photos of food from fab restaurants.
Photographer Raul Gutierrez's Travels Without Maps series, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. Via Andy Rutledge.
Glastonbury 2009.
Nice work from photographer Marleen Sleeuwits.
Photographer Anthony Powell and his wife Christine are back in Antarctica. The last plane out left weeks ago and they still won't see the sun for another couple of months, so expect a lot more activity on Frostbytes for the foreseeable future.
Stunning shot from space of an eruption of the Sarychev Peak Volcano.
IBM 360 Model 30 Tape Drives 1965 by Mark Richards. Beautiful.
Doorbell instructions. Via Grow a Brain.
The Fallen Earth.
Century-old color photos of the Russian Empire by Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. Via Scott McMillin.
Pretty much any excuse will do for a relink to The Branding of Polaroid, Paul Giambarba's first-hand account of the company's corporate image and product identity development. Required reading.
Artist Helga Steppan took all her belongings and organized them by color pallette.
DirJournal's picks for most interesting abandoned places in the world.
Nice work from photographer Trevor Traynor.
You have got to be kidding me, the most terrifying mountain bike trail on Earth.
Gorgeous color photos from early 20th century Russia. Via CPluv.
The Big Picture takes a look at the election turmoil in Iran.
Winners of the Best Aquatic Views from 2009 contest.
"I began to imagine Disney's perfect Princesses juxtaposed with real issues that were affecting women around me, such as illness, addiction and self-image issues." From artist Dina Goldstein, Fallen Princesses Via Jezebel.
Nine extraordinary clouds.
Stunning 360 degree panoramic photo from the Sydney Luminous Festival.
"None of these photos were taken by me or were taken after about 1990. How I find them will remain a mystery because mysteries are fun." Superbomba totally rules.
Abandoned stages large and small.
One Night in Beijing.
Photoset of the moment: Toys, a collection of beautifully art directed shots of action figures (mostly from Star Wars). I, II, and III. Via Transbuddha.
"Make every frame count." Martin Williams uses every bit of each roll of film he takes to produce his art. Check Oranges and Lemons. Via Czeltic Girl.
From photographer Louis Helbig, Beautiful Destruction.
New York's High Line park opens today and looks amazing.
Photos of courts by Elliott Wilcox.
Mercury and Messenger.
From the Abkhazia region in Russia, the abandonded Prince's House.
From photographer David Zaitz, Texas 2009. Via Not Cot.
Lovely. Animals of Africa from photographer Nick Brandt. Via Look at This.
This also.
"Violence and debauchery run rampant in a small town called Pleasantville."
Photos of an old Russian sub.
"A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of '...parting the veil of Faery...'. The device, which he called the 'Spectobarathrum', produced beautiful photo graphic plates he called 'fatagravures', through a now lost process."
Local note/reminder: Sam Shoots at the Post Family tonight.
From photographer J Bennett, No Lifeguard on Duty.
Rubber ducks. Lots of rubber ducks.
Some school lunches from around the world. France FTW with their plates of frites.
Time lapse of the galactic center of the Milky Way rising over last month's Texas Star Party.
Local note: Sam Rosen's epic photography project, Sam Shoots, opens Friday night at The Post Family's "Family Room."
Pentecost at the Parthenon. Via Not Cot.
Not sure what to make of these four pix from Hit&Miss but I'm not sure understanding is important.
"In a tradition that dates back at least 200 years, possibly much longer, groups of fearless competitors chase an 8 pound (3.5 kg) round of Double Gloucester Cheese down an extremely steep and uneven hill, with a 1:1 gradient in some parts." The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling contest. Warning, some dudes like to chase cheese in the buff.
Nice photo set of 1940s New York.
Beautiful work from photographer Denis Dailleux.
Asher Penn's photo series: Portrait of a Girlfriend.
Moon in the Mullica.
More photography projects discovered in Beijing: Floriane de Lassee's ongoing Night Views (some of which has been published in this great book) and Liu Lijie's Another Episode II.
While in China, I discovered the work of photographer Wang Qingsong, who creates these amazing, very busy, very wide shots. I picked up a signed copy my favorite: Follow Me.
Happiest People Ever!
Mesmerizing, photos of the Kings of Africa.
"...consumerism's tombstones of defunct, ghost-box stores..." Lyle Rexer on Brian Ulrich for Photograph Mag.
"The idea was to juxtapose the world of Mexican wrestlers with the grey and sad reality of Polish streets. As it happens, the project got out of control. Luchadores figures, which were originally made as part of the diplomma work, started to show up in different, faraway countries." Welcome to El mas Santo. Via Design You Trust.
"Commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany 64 years ago, in 1945, Victory Day is both a day of remembrance and recently, for the Russian government, an opportunity to revive the nation's armed forces and global clout." Russia observes Victory Day.
Robert Frank's "The Americans" at SFMOMA. Here's a small sampling of his photos, including this fave.
Had a couple hours in between things today, so I rented a bike and ran across a very eerie abandoned hotel/hostel: Charley Johng's Dune Guesthouse. I'm frankly a little surprised that I wasn't eaten by zombies. Very spooky.
"STS-125 astronaut Andrew Feustel selects his next tool to use while participating in the first of five scheduled spacewalks to perform final hands-on servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
The only image ever taken of a transit of a space shuttle (Atlantis) and the Hubble Space Telescope in front of the Sun.
Photographer Mark Menjivar takes a look at people's refrigerators in You Are What You Eat.
Fab photos from the Volvo Ocean Race.
Great photography by Tim Walker.
Spreading the awkwardness. Via Zulkey.
Exploring an abandoned men's clothing factory in Baltimore. Thanks Sofro.
Find "Megalopolis Shanghai" in the gallery section of Horst and Daniel Zielske's site. It's a spectacular photo series by the father and son team. "World's End" is amazing too. Via Daily Icon.
Titan Beyond the Rings.
Nice blog to browse this afternoon, Old Photos of Japan.
"This project depicts a photographic assembly of the ongoing process in this particular social development." Photographer Andres Marroquin Winkelmann's series Zapalla/Yurinaki series.
Take a virtual tour of Rio.
Traffic!
Human landscapes from above.
The White House has posted a great set of photos from the President's first 100 days in office.
Take a look inside a Russian nuclear power plant.
The red, yellow and blue planet, how the Lumiere brothers invented color photography and what Albert Kahn did with it. Slide show and video from the 07 BBC series.
"From the advent of photography in the 19th century and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients." I want this book while simultaneously want nothing to do with it: Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880 - 1930.
Life in a Block of Flats: Suburban Slovakia, photography by Andrej Balco.
We are having great weather here in Chicago, for now, which has me pining for open air farmers markets. Will have to get my fix by looking at some great photos of the Mercat de la Boqueria in Barcelona.
50 Years ago, fraternity brothers at the University of Arkansas were suffering from a shortage of chairs. In protest, they took to hunkering.
From photographer Jeff Barnett-Winsby, his Safe Harbor series. The fascinating back story can be found here.
Encarnacion Rodriquez and His Wife, Hortencia 2009. From the series "The Box (Texas)" by Coke Wisdom O'Neal, created with the San Isidro community and framed in an oversized specimen box. More on the project here.
Gorgeous HDR photos of Paris.
Photographer Peter Funch's Composite Photos of New York Street Scenes.
The NASA Earth Observatory's look at 25 Years of Growth in Las Vegas. Will be interesting to see what happens going forward, now that the city has fallen on particularly tough times.
Photographer Stephen Mallon's incredible shots of the recovery of Flight 1549 (the one that landed in the Hudson River).
Lovely, Cassini sends back more pictures of Saturn.
"West German photographer Karlheinz Jardner took fascinating photos during a trip through East Germany in the spring of 1990, capturing a world that would soon disappear forever."
NYC Grid 1969 vs 2009.
Spent this past week on a shoot in San Francisco with a great cameraman who likes to spend his free time photographing abandoned buildings. Make sure to keep him bookmarked, as he mentioned some very interesting upcoming urban expeditions.
Heartbreaking, documenting the return of the U.S. war dead.
Gorgeous photochrom travel prints from 1890.
Brad Elterman went to a lot of LA parties in the 70s and hung out with famous and not so famous people. Brad Elterman took a ton of great photos. Thanks Jennifer.
Castle and Full Moon.
So you know, photos you won't believe aren't photoshopped.
Find yourself in the Dork Yearbook. This looks a lot like me growing up.
Driving While Standing Still at TMN Galleries.
Lucha Libre.
Great news for our pal Chicago photographer Brian Ulrich who has been awarded a well-deserved 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Congrats Brian.
Stunning photos of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Central Italy earlier this week. Warning; some photos may be upsetting. #27 is just devastating.
Neon sign boneyard.
Lovely, from photographer Jan Von Holleban, Dreams of Flying.
Photographer Chris Anthony's series Venice.
"The principal objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper." From photographer Dulce Pinzon, Superheroes
Behind the scenes at Netflix.
"Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they live. Every two months each photographer will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and the State in which they live." The 50 States Project.
Fantastic, photographer Matt Hoyle's series Barnumville.
Sharks!.
The Big Picture's fading Earth Hour photos.
100 Abandoned Houses.
"Images are made by finding old photographs of places, printing them out, and then holding the print up in the modern day location that the original photograph was taken." Looking Into the Past, a simple and brilliant idea from Jason Powell, inspired by Souvenirs by Michael Hughes. Via Things.
Whose Father Was He? part one of a photographic investigation for the NYT by Errol Morris.
Local note: here's your chance to meet the photographer and fisherman Corey Arnold, as he'll be here Friday for an exhibition of his ongoing "Fish-Work" series at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery.
Academic Landscapes, a photo series at Polar Inertia by Vaughn Wascovich.
A handful of photos from inside an Amazon distribution warehouse. Via Sit Down Man.
Can't link them individually but Gregg Segal's photo series "Superheroes" is sweet, especially Spidey doing his laundry. Via The Letter.
Vector Portraits by Andrew Bush. "Photographs made while traveling 50 to 70 mph in Los Angeles and other parts of the Southwestern United States." Via It's Nice That.
Vintage supermarket photos.
Fab, the Photographic Dictionary.
"Every Saturday, if I can, I go to my local greenmarket (at Grand Army Plaza), buy some goodies, take them home, and scan them." Lovely. Via Grow a Brain.
Um, you gonna eat that?.
Gorgeous photography from Clark Little. Via Josh.
Want to know what an underwater volcanic explosion looks like? Done.
Saturn: Moons in Transit.
Tons of people jumping on hotel beds.
Really funky and definitely fabulous work from photographer Brian McCarty.
An amazing collection of Science and Tech ads from the 50's and 60's.
Looking into the past.
Photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's beautiful and haunting series The Ruins of Detroit.
"We weren't really tired by the time we had reached our south destination so we kept on walking." Michael takes a tour of The Bowery and lots of great photos along the way.
Stores that are no more.
"In today's age of post-production computer conjuring, we decided to create some good, old-fashioned smoke and mirrors optical illusions." Behind the scenes look at some photo trickery for Wallpaper magazine.
Brooklyn in the 70s.
"Please tip! We are trying to raise $700 billion to help rich folks." Slate's Shoot the Recession project.
Shore pounding bliss.
House Names.
"Are You There God,? It's Me Mantis", Edith plays with her food.
Vintage Soviet Science magazine covers.
"I've experimented with replication, reversing the locations of the digital and the Polaroid, and using the Polaroid to tell what happened in the recent past."
Dog Sledding. Just had a flashback to when I took my nieces to see 8 Below. Hmm, could have done without that.
Little Planets: 30 polar panoramic photographs.
Relleno De Mono's photostream is full of monsters, plush toys and Kodachrome. Via Nikisees.
For Spencer. "We have a new pet. He's got the Empire in him that one. His name is ATilla. Via Slashfilm.
The Bad Translations Flickr pool.
Jarr takes pictures of posters in Amsterdam, lots of pictures.
Nice work from photographer Karen Morgan.
"Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them." Strictly No Photography.
From photographer Justin Newhall, his series on WWII re-enactors, Axis and Allies.
Really great, quirky work from photographer Julie Blackmon.
Slate magazine's Shoot the Recession project.
"It's hard to say whether Eastman is really capturing a disappearing America, or whether he's preserving an American sentiment. Either way, his images are stunning." Use the full-screen mode. Thanks Marshall.
From photographer Levi Wedel, Invisible City. Via Fubiz.
Stunning panoramic sunset from the La Silla observatory in Chile. Via DRB.
Gwenael Nicolas' wonderfully sparse photography project Light-Light, Tokyo Wonder.
"What does that man want from you and why is he hidden behind a mask?" The latest project by the photography team of The Los Vocalino Brothers: Turista.
From photographer Christopher LaMarca, Pool Hustlers.
Photochaining, "the art of leaving memory cards in public places to be picked up and used by others, who then do likewise."
Some really gorgeous landscape photos.
A great series of stylized and composed NYC street photos by Peter Funch called "Babel Tales."
The Arctic Circle.
The photography of Kudasz Gabor Arion. Via Another Company.
Really great photos of factories in Japan.
A photo retrospective of Pontiac: every year from 1948 to 1971.
At work.
Thank goodness for cell phone cameras, 71 pics of odd things on the subway. Via Mental Floss.
The photography of Nadav Kander, especially "Arctic Circle" and "I Wish I Were Near You." Via Moon River.
"The most beautiful fairy tales in the history of Modernism." Trailer for Eric Bricker's film on photographer Julius Shulman, Visual Acoustics.
Photo essay from Anthony Suau, Struggling Cleveland. The World Press Photo Awards named this shot Photo of the Year.
360 degree panorama of a Moon Halo.
Really great quirky photography from Ryan Robinson.
Super creepy, Icicles of Brick.
Related to the last, firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured Koala.
Photos showing the incredible devastation caused by the bushfires in Australia.
Fantastically creepy photography from Joshua Hoffine.
The Caustic Cover Critic sifts through the huge dust jacket collection at the NYPL and comes up with some beauties.
Fantastic work from photographer Lauren Dukoff.
Gorgeous fashion photography spanning the 1930s through the 1960s from photographer John Rawlings. Via Things.
The work of Dominique Baynes, Prop Stylist. Via 2 or 3 Things.
Duke's The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress tells the story of the construction of a highway in rural North Carolina through Rob Amberg's photos. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Photos of Leningrad under siege in the early 1940s partially imposed on pictures of the current day city. Via Andrew Simone of Clusterflock.
Eric Tabuchi's photo series, Twentysix abandoned gasoline stations.
Really great work from photographer Emily Shur.
Amazing photos of rural America in the 1940's from Disfarmer. Via DRB.
From photographer Alexander Heilner, stunning Aerial Landscapes.
Discover Africa.
A Josef Muller-Brockmann Flickr pool.
LA1980, photos of Los Angeles taken 29 years ago by Larry Gassan.
Wow. The view from the seven highest peaks on Earth. Via the always fab DRB.
Photographers Roth & Ramberg on creating Antarctica in Western Canada. Via Nack.
Amazing color photos of Soviet soldiers in WWII.
More aerial night images of London, by photographer Jason Hawkes. Simply stunning.
The new site for The Impossible Project, the group hoping to bring instant film back to the market, now that Polaroid has gotten out of the business.
Errol Morris talks to three photo editors at major wire services about photographing the Bush administration, including several examples of the same image from different photographers.
Photographer David Bergman's 1,474 Megapixel Inaugural Address Photo and how he made it.
Photographer Erik Madigan Heck beautifully recreates Hitchcock's The Birds for Nomenus Quarterly (click on "The Row"). Via 2 or 3 Things.
The new book Chicken: Low Art, High Calorie.
Really great work from photographer Greg Williams.
Justin Quinnell's six month long exposure compresses the time into a single ghostly image of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol UK.
This downturn in the economy affects everyone, but nowhere is it more obvious than on Coudal Partners' breakroom table.
Discovering the original photo Shepard Fairey used to create his Obama poster. And then, um, solving the mystery again. Via Byrdhouse.
The trippy, funhouse-like cityscapes of Jeremy Kidd's Fictional Realities, opening this week in LA. (Thanks, Michael.)
No surprise, The Big Picture has a fantastic collection of photos from the inauguration yesterday.
Gorgeous examples of long exposure photography.
Amazing view from above the inauguration yesterday.
Our friends at WBEZ are collecting scenes from Chicago on inauguration day. Info on how to contribute here.
Inaugural preparations.
"The following portfolios were made on the eroding sets and locations of Sergio Leone's celebrated 1960's 'spaghetti Westerns', deep in the deserts of southern Spain." Once Upon a Time in the West from photographer Aaron Schuman.
Visual Acoustics, a gorgeous new documentary about photographer Julius Shulman.
Really great Flickr set of photos from the Land O' Lincoln.
Sailing, around the world.
Nice shot of how Lake Michigan looked this morning on the drive in. Almost made the sub-zero cold worth it. Almost. Another couple of good ones here.
The first ever Presidential portrait taken with a digital camera.
Amazing photos of a train graveyard in Bolivia. Via Grow A Brain.
Taken with an ordinary digital camera in the South Of France, rising above the Alps, the largest full moon of 2009. Stunning.
Oh my Lord, I so love the internets. Effusive thanks to Doug.
Haunting photography from Desiree Dolron.
Gah! Evil intentions yes, but cute as a button.
"On June 17, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop, for a fleeting moment,
the arrow of time passing by."
This is Japan. Brilliant.
Nice collection of photos from an abandoned paper mill.
My Year in Outfits. Via NotCot.
NSFW if your work has a policy about pixelated nudes in highly suggestive poses. Photos for Amusement Magazine by JeanYves Lemoigne. Via Computerlove.
"The city of Guiyu is home to 5,500 businesses devoted to processing discarded electronics, known as e-waste. According to local websites, the region dismantles 1.5 million pounds of junked computers, cell phones and other devices a year." China's Electronic Waste Village. My current computer is headed there any minute. Via Cynical-C.
Portraiture Now: Feature Photography at The National Portrait Gallery.
Gorgeous photos from the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China.
TiltShiftMaker, a free online app to convert your photos into miniature.
Sweet rock-n-roll photography by Lauren Dukoff soon to be published in the book Family.
Nick and Tom's lomo accidents. Lovely. Via Monoscope.
"The rules:
1. Shoot a new photo every day.
2. Each day increase the focal length one millimeter.
3. Post this new image before going to sleep.
4. No cheating." 1 millimeter a day. Via Josh.
Fantastic, 19 breathtaking examples of tilt-shift photography.
Photos of the first days of the Nazi invasion into Russia taken by German soldiers.
Film is not dead it just smells funny. Thanks Frans.
"Was that sky more the same sky than the sky pictures taken in Europe?" Rolu on David Horvitz and his 2008 image set of daily sky photos.
Sweet product photography portfolio by Michael C. Eng. Via c77.
Fantastic portraits from photographer Sam Bassett. Via NotCot.
Thousands of photos of 45 rpm vinyl singles. Via Things.
Photos of an abandoned London.
Lovely photos of books at an Indian street market. Via Grow a Brain.
Sadly this is the last of my quick link drops for Fresh Signals, thanks Steve and Coudal Partners for letting me try some things out. Photo: Untitled. Via Chris Glass.
From The Big Picture, Israel and Gaza.
One year in 40 seconds.
Beautiful high speed water photography.
So you know, The Best of Christmas photos from around the globe for 2008.
Abandoned cars in Russia.
Gorgeous photos of Serbia. Via DRB.
Vintage photos from the dawn of the Soviet era
Round trip with the Endeavour.
Following JC's post below: Denise Joyce and Nancy Watkins' new book Scared of Santa: Scenes of Terror in Toyland, a collection of all those great photos.
Hey look, it's the Alphabet Truck!
Stormtrooper Christmas: Star Wars toys pose for the festive season.
As a recent greyhound adopter and longtime building buff, photographer Barbara Karant combines two of my favorite things: Architecture vs. Greyhounds.
Big collection of photos by Ken Derry from atop his crane, the one that's helping to build the new Trump Tower here in Chicago. Beautiful and utterly terrifying.
Dogs chasing my car in the deserts. Via Grow a Brain.
2008's most beautiful HDR images.
The ruins of Detroit industry.
The New York Public Library joined Flickr's Commons yesterday, releasing more than a thousand archived photographs. The Ellis Island set is particularly good.
Bulgarian "Squat Shops" are operated out of floor-level cellar windows. From the new edition of Polar Inertia.
Route 66 Neon.
Wow. Photos of the Annual Hajj Pilgrimage. Via Grow a Brain.
Selected photos from Wallpaper Magazine.
From photographer Louis Porter, Wires at Night.
Top shots for National Geographic's World in Focus photo contest.
London Shop Fronts. Via d*s.
Art can make you jump for joy.
Love these, Better Views.
From one of the most iconic photos of the Great Depression (Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange), one of the children reminisces about how her Mom felt about having the image taken. Via design:related
"Potential 'husbands' for an attractive Eastern European girl were all asked to pose with her so she could see what kind of couple they would make." Katarina Radovic's A Husband in Paris.
"Personal family snapshots erased layer by layer with a rubber eraser to expose the white base of the photo paper. The title of each piece is a memory that the photograph recalled." From artist Cody Trepte, his series Erased Photographs.
The photography of Kim Boske, "decay can be very slow."
Alec Soth's photography series: Sleeping by the Mississippi. Via bblinks.
Two Stormtroopers' Day at the Beach. Exactly what it sounds like.
Welcome to MidCentury Illinois.
Venice under water.
A smile in the heavens, a happy sky over Los Angeles.
Amazing photos of the repairs in progress to the International Space Station.
Really great photography from Daniel Fell.
Autoportraits by Vladimir Nikolic.
The photography of Adrian Parfene. Really dig the "Road" and "Dark Blue" galleries.
Very cool, a 360 degree view of an A380 flight deck. Via Grow A Brain.
Who knew that actor Jeff Bridges is also a talented photographer? Check out his behind the scenes photos of Ironman.
So you know. A local public service announcement. The photo-booth at Diversey River Bowl is old-school and currently in just about the perfect state of disrepair to produce great, gritty images.
Posted before, but it keeps growing: the awesome "Malort Face" Flickr Pool.
Sorry I Missed Your Party.
Russia, from a plane.
"Domo prepares his attack." A lovely photo that reflects well on us and artist Billy Davis too.
Selections from the George Eastman House collection of James Jowers photography, beautiful NYC street images from the 1960s and early 70s.
Thanks to Pochemuchka for sending us this link.
Mike Wachs writes to ask, "Have you seen this?" The answer is yes, but we're sure enjoying seeing it again.
The Zappas.
The last photographs of celebrities, public figures, and impending disasters.
"Summer nights encompass some of the most unforgettable times of our lives. There is a certain mystery contained in the darkness & tension. In 48 photographs, 'WE ARE SLEEPING GIANTS' eludes to the stories of youth, isolation & nearly supernatural experiences during this annual epoch." From photographer Brooks Reynolds, We are Sleeping Giants. Fab.
"Instead of painting on canvas, I install a canvas behind real objects." Forest for the Trees, an interview with Myoung Ho Lee in the TMN Galleries.
Amazing photos of the wildfires in California.
Nice vintage photo collection of celebrities.
From photographer Richard Renaldi, Touching Strangers. Via Grow a Brain.
Some stunning examples of night photography.
Design Observer has a great post about Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs.
Photographer Bruno Quinquet's fab series Salaryman Project.
"Naomi Campbell was once sued by a former friend, after the supermodel had punched and kicked her for wearing a similar outfit. Inspired by this and other unspoken fashion faux pax, Trinh spent an afternoon posing with strangers who happen to be wearing the exact same cardigan as the one he had on." Same Same.
Poladroid, turn your pix into Polaroids. Sort of.
Nick's friends and their favorite things.
"...there were many kids who opted for the permanent awesomeness that was the laser background." Thanks Whet.
Digitizing the photographic archives of the Sechtl & Vosecek Studios, a pioneering European enterprise. A great collection, full of surprises and historical information.
Fantastical photography from Li Wei.
"Every road leads you somewhere."
Behind the scenes with the Obama family on election night. Via DF
From photographer Bruce Gilden, Foreclosures. Via MeFi.
Photos from the set of Star Wars. Via Cynical-C.
A complete set of Flintstones 3D ViewMaster Slides from 1962. Via Drawn.
Holy crap, I just clicked on Hell.
Nick tries to "emulate that accidental, random fun of shooting film" with his two double exposure photo technique challenges.
Today's Big Picture features our next President.
Cool little animated promo for Hot Shots, a new book about photography by Kevin Meredith. Via I Like.
Welcome to Motel Hell.
Clever photography in this series of Career Builder print ads. Via The Denver Egotist.
In honor of election day, FotA and Field-Tested contributor Michael Surtees is opening up his Ten:15 project to include both 10:15AM and 10:15PM. Take a photo at either of those times, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, and send it in.
NYC and Paris, reflected in puddles, the photography of Robin Soulier. Via Booooooom.
Fab photography by Carlos Serrao.
Gerard Maynards 17 Gigapixels of Yosemite. Yowza. Make sure to check the Zoomify version too.
Jack the Ripper and the East End.
Plastic Life. Via Happy Cavalier.
From photographer Corinne May Botz, Haunted House. Accompanying audio files of ghost stories are here
Underwater 360°.
Amazing, the winners of Nikon's Smallest World Competition.
Moscow, the roof view.
The Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands has begun posting their collection to Flickr. Via Byrdhouse.
"She creates cinematic
moments as if they were
movie stills from the 40s/50s." Bethany Obrecht's White Manor. Via 2 or 3 Things.
PopPhoto has their choices for the 100 Best Photo Album covers.
Halloween in the Time of Cholera. Via Wired.
"In winter afternoons, thousands of birds, attracted by the warmth of the refinery, start a dance that lasts until dusk." Refinery Flock, a series of photographs for File by Massimo Cristaldi
From photographer Danielle Van Ark, The Mounted Life
Caleb Charland's photographs are made with variable exposures and feature mechanical contraptions made from power tools and everyday items. Via It's Nice That.
"Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art. In a world obsessed with superficial appearance it is a refreshing change to be able to look beyond the surface." Via Cool Hunting.
-ing.
Building homemade digital cameras from low-end flatbed scanners. Here's how to do it from Make.
Dialogue Among Giants, Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California, at the Getty.
Callie Shell has been traveling with Obama for Time Mag and has posted a terrific series of candid photos with captions. I love "these two boys," and "pull-ups." Via Kottke.
Photoset of the moment: a trip to Iceland. Via 2 or 3 Things.
Bernd Hagemann's collection of photos from Shanghai of people publicly sleeping in strange positions, getting some shut eye wherever they can. Via Arbroath.
Douglas Cruickshank's Literature Without Words, a massive round-up of photography sites at Readerville. Thanks Karen.
A terrific site dedicated to The Art of the Photogravure. Contains an amazing collection of images and features, plus definitive historical and technical resources.
The terrible beauty of the salt mine.
Days of Autumn.
The United States/Mexico border station in San Ysidro in 1925 and the present.
Related to the last. Our favorite photo from this time of year.
Domesticated, a photo series by Amy Stein. "Modern dioramas of our new natural history." Superb. Via the always observant That's a Negative.
Melbourne Today.
Aaron Hobson's Cinemascapes, sequential narrative images. Via Booooooom.
Beautiful, perfect set piece photography by Dan Tobin Smith. Check the alphabetical compositions and the wide-screen "Sabotage."
Spend the afternoon browsing the U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library.
Gorgeous, from photographer Irina Rozovsky, This Russia.
Some fantastic examples of high speed photography.
In answer to a couple emails, the images that are currently rotating on our cover page come from Jennifer Sharpe's amazing Kriegsmann Files, which were found in a Venice, CA alleyway. But let's let Jennifer tell that story herself.
"This project researches the visual traces that are left in public places. In our daily lives we dwell in public spaces, where our journeys are filmed and stored as CCTV records. The omnipresence of the gaze of surveillance turns the city into a spectacle, and us into actors." From photographer Manuel Vazquez, Traces.
Hand-colored black and white photos by Cali.
The Lomographic Society International's new Horizon Cameras for taking panoramics. Thanks Henry.
"Love is short, but longer than oblivion." The Postman Series by Maleonn, whose bio states that he is "engaged in independent creation of art." I'll say. Via ffffound.
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb by Peter Kuran. Found among other things.
Lovely, photographer Andy Mattern's series Buildings at Night.
Yeah, those jeans are cool. Ever wonder how they got that artfully distressed? Photographer David Friedman took his camera into the Denim Factory.
"During recent years, with the growing sophistication and consumerism of the modern Chinese, public parks have evolved in a strange, limpid, direction towards what I would describe as 'pseudo-theme parks', where 'fairground' style mechanical games or attractions are built." Photographer Dustin Shun's series It Isnae Disney.
So you know, the Best Science images of 2008.
Photos of Internet Cafes Around the World.
The photography of Magdalena Bors.
Jason take pictures of his kids, really fantastic pictures of his kids.
Interesting story on Policing Flickr, largely about the work of FotA Heather Champ. Via I Like.
Artists Vivien Weyrauch and Fabian Rottger's series Flying Things.
Photographer Lucas Foglia's series on Re-Wilding, "the process of creating a lifestyle that is independent of the domestication of civilization." Interesting, but it's strange that some of these people have websites.
John Chiara not only has a great name for a photographer, but he also has a truck-sized camera.
Stroll the White City.
Pre-1962 America in Color. Totally fab. Via A Continuous Lean.
For your inspiration, the world's best photos of bento box lunches.
"My work explores the persistent mark of individuality in a culture that brands, packages, and relentlessly promotes conformity." Brilliant, photographer Paho Mann's series Junk Drawers and Medicine Cabinets.
Photos of the Moscow Zoo from the 1920's.
Amazing photos from Sunday's Formula One Racing Singapore Grand Prix
Brilliant, Lighting Out For The Territory from the book Square America.
"Maria and Joakim went to the Norwegian mountains and fjords to investigate light and time. With them they had 100 reflectors. This is what happened."
"I wanted to take aerial shots over the streets New York so I spent the last few months designing, building, and rethinking of ways to not only get my camera up in the air, but to make it fire some shots when it was up there." The Balloon Project by David Trawin. Via DesignNotes.
Lovely work from photographer Franck Juery.
Library Finds. Books meet camera.
Amazing shots of slime molds.
Add this one to my Christmas list—where retro and digital come together beautifully.
Great stuff from photographer Aaron Farley.
Some really great examples of macro photography. Seriously, did they have to have so many spider shots?
Wired has the winners for their reader submitted portrait photo contest. And the winner is stunning.
Good design on paper.
Fantastic photos of surfers from the 1970's from photographer Jeff Divine. Via Happy Cavalier.
Ooohh, look at the pretty colors.
Gorgeous photos of the Highlands and islands of Scotland. Via Grow a brain.
Observing Ramadan.
Beside the Seaside, snapshots of British coastal life, 1880-1950. Via I Like.
17 Years of photos, two per day, rotating in sync with Earth around the Sun.
New Scientist on the future of photography.
Holding the sun.
Quirky photography from Luke Stephenson. Be sure to check out the amazing World Beard and Mustache Championship series.
How photographer Jill Greenberg really feels about John McCain. The story of a photo shoot for The Atlantic. The comment thread on this PDNPulse entry is worth exploring.
Images in Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke's Lightmark project are created by using long-exposures and "painting" with a light source. Fab. Via Daily Icon.
The photography of Toby Glanville (check out "Portraits").
"Hey Gladys, meet us on the Lido deck. It's Limbo time."
Really great collection of photos taken with a Holga 120SF.
FILE magazine's current featured project is John Loomis' series Doubleheader.
I guess you don't want to talk to me anymore.
Tim Gasperak's Iceland. Via Projectionist.
Stunning, hurricanes viewed from space.
Toys on Roids.
Inspirational accidents are some of my favourite things. iPhone cubism.
Cucumber pickers of Belarus.
A fantastic collection of protest photos from outside the DNC and RNC conventions by three freelance photojournalists. Via Design Info.
Photoset of the moment: Jug of Tea, an abandoned snack shop in the UK. Via I Like.
"Excuse me, could you take a picture of me?"
"Photographer Laura Peters went behind the scenes at mortuaries, funeral parlours and crematoria to find out about the 'death industry'" in her series Behind the Last Closed Door.
Some images of London from above, at night, by photographer Jason Hawkes.
Eric Etheridge's Breach of Peace. Mugshots of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders set against current photos and interviews. Heroic.
The photography of Tod Seelie.
Gorgeous work from photographer Bill Steber.
Nakki Goranin talks to Smithsonian Magazine about the once ubiquitous photobooth and about her new book, American Photobooth.
Funky and very cool photography by Jeffrey Vanhoutte.
Fab collection of graphic design books.
Far out, HD from the sixties and seventies.
Interesting photographic notes from the field from the crew making the upcoming documentary about surfing in the Middle East, God Went Surfing With the Devil.
The August 1st eclipse of the sun as seen over the Great Wall in China.
Lovely, vintage photographs of everyday life in America.
Fantastic photograph by Kevin German, which I extra like for obvious reasons: "Steve the Chicken." More of German's work here.
Yet another travel-related link for today. A Motorbike Adventure is a gorgeous photographic journal of a trip across India by motorbike.
Great work from photographer Aldo Sperber
For BB. With reviews being posted of the long-awaited Nikon D90 and the upcoming Canon 50D, I was forced to spend a few hours online last night fantasizing about new cameras.
Hitting the road this Labor Day weekend? Here's to the road trip.
Sexy People. Only funny until someone finds some old photo of you from high school and sends it in.
Liu Bolin's Camouflage series of photographs. (Xie xie, Mrs. BB.)
To complement our Back To Schoudal savings-a-bration, the gorgeous Old School flickr set from Uppercase.
Rachel Papo's Serial No. 3817131, a photo essay about eighteen year old women drafted into the Israeli army.
Amazing work from photographer Ola Bell.
Brilliant, photographer Steve Schofield's series Land of the Free.
So you know, the beauty of motion blur photography.
So you know, some essential Flickr groups for abandoned properties.
Fantastic, photos from the Beijing Olympics.
Huge collection of examples of 1970's packaging .
Silent World. Photographs by Michael Kenna.
Spencer Tunick is a photographer who documents the live nude human body in public, often with hundreds of volunteers. The work is site-specific, and presents people en masse and in unusual places, like on a glacier.
"Sailing over a cardboard sea..."
"Two different movie stills are brought together in a way that a perspectively coherence is kept and/or established. The two 'destroyed' images come together in a new way that plays with
our imaginative capacity to project and create identities within what we see." Behind the Scenes.
The photography of Nicolas Mikolaj Grospierre shows empty, quiet and crumbling Soviet era buildings. Bitter and sweet. Via Conscientious.
Lovely photos of St. Petersburg in the 19th century.
Other Simulated Worlds, fascinating photos from the The American Museum of Natural History, many showing exhibits being prepared.
Big collection of photos of the abandoned Edgewater Medical Center, birthplace of both Hillary Clinton and John Wayne Gacy.
Stan und Ollie.
I'm always debating which camera to carry, video or still, and after a barrage of Olympic television coverage, the photographs on the Visions of China blog make a great argument for the power of a single moment in time.
Revisiting these photographs of architectural patterns in Hong Kong by Michael Wolf. Via the Ministry.
Life's railway to heaven.
Society in Decline's Intrastate Commerce photoset. Thanks, Paz.
Polar submarines.
"David Maisel's photographs of nearly 110 funereal copper canisters are a mineralogical delight." Library of Dust.
Somewhat related to the last, Yearbook Yourself.
The good folks over at wejetset have a fab GR Holga starter kit. So you know, they happen to carry Field Notes too.
Spies, Lies, and Alibis.
Photographer Branislav Kropilak's "Billboard" series is a perfect example of the fact that how you look at something is at least as important as what you look at. Beautiful.
Photographer Amy Stein's fab series Domesticated.
Nice collection of vintage pulp sci-fi books.
Kitchen gadgets disassembled starting with the juicer.
Photographer Andrew Emond's Worksongs.
Speaking of traffic signs.
Photos from DefCon 2008.
Gorgeous archtitecural photgraphy from Iwan Baan.
Lovely photography from Fernando Arias. Here is my fave.
Nice photography from Caleb Charland.
Hopefully you watched at least part of the Olympic opening ceremonies, they were truly spectacular. The Big Picture has some stunning photos.
Enter at your own risk, Freak Circus.
Do yourself a big favour and browse the amazing photography of Michael Eastman. Via bb.
Rich people rooftops in NYC.
For Spencer, The. Best. Cupcake. Ever.
Fabulous photos of workers in a factory in France taken between 1966 to 1971.
This site houses the ongoing documentation of banana skins in the urban London landscape.
"Extremely detailed representations of 10 private apartments. All of them were photographed as if the ceilings were taken off." Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga's "Plan." Via 2 or 3 Things.
Ovation TV has great interview with photographer Gregory Crewdson. His work is surreal and arresting, you can view some of his photos here.
From the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia great shot of yesterday's solar eclipse.
Nice collection of photos of classic cars.
Great photos of center pivot irrigation sites.
Gorgeous, Moon games.
From photographer William Lawson, Intervention
Bar none, the best photo taken at a CP event ever, by Kory Westerhold.
Brent Humphreys shot some unique images of the Tour de France 2007, under "projects."
"I'd found a way to see the world as a camera does. However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real." Hiroshi Sugimoto's fab Diorama Series. More about the artist at Art:21.
Some beautiful behind the scenes photos of exhibits being assembled at the Field Museum.
Artist Stephanie Syjuco's The Village (small encampments).
This is how we played when I was a youngster, old school playground toys.
Gorgeous, photographer Noah Kalina's Labs at Night. Via DRB
Lia Halloran, photographer, artist, skateboarder. Via DesignNotes.
Follow up to a previous post, more bird's eye landscapes in Russia.
Flora Olbiensis by Erwan Frotin. Via d*s.
Three weeks to go.
Photos of lost cities.
Eugenio Recuenco's fresco and other photographic works.
Some gorgeous images by Kai Yamada taken with plastic cameras, among many other photos, techniques and ideas at Kai's dianacamera.com.
A saturated, hyperstyled, cinematic, staged series of portraits. The Big Valley Photographs by Alex Prager. Via La Petite Claudine.
Human aerial design as protest art, Circle Up Now.
Opacity, abandoned photography and urban exploration. Thanks Marshall.
Vintage cookbooks from 1898 to 1978.
Fab, Moscow from the bird's sight.
Photos from the recent Chap Olympics, which is described as "for the perfectly dressed, under-achieving dandies with no interest in sport." Even more photos here. Via Arbroath.
More wood paneling than you have ever seen, old wedding photos found near a garbage can in an alley next to an old mattress.
Lovely, photos from a ship graveyard.
What are you wearing today?
Orbs.
"Cadillac," beautiful black and white photographs by Stephen Salmieri. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Begin with this startlingly beautiful image and progress right through the whole set, shot at a Chinese space program museum. The Photography of Markku LaHDesmaki.
It appears that Iran has clone-tool technology.
Lovely, planets and fire by moonlight.
Party like it's 1959.
Photos of fans watching the Euro Cup games in Vienna by the always great Bernhard Wolf: I , II, III, and IV.
Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. Photographs by Ed Kashi, who was interviewed on Weekend Edition from NPR. Via C-Monster.
PingMag on the The Death of My Little Dead Dick. Art and relationships sometimes rise together. And sometimes fall that way too.
Photographer David La Spina's History of a Village.
"Consumer Actions involves a consumer object replacement using a selection of specific consumer items, carving and painting scale replicas, and inserting them back into their original consumer context." Fab, from artist Conrad Bakker.
Steve Schofield's Land of the Free, photographs of costumed fans (mostly sci-fi) in their homes. Via bblinks.
Photographer Joakim Eskildsen's beautiful "Fireworks" from his Nordic Signs series.
"This image is the result of driving a few thousand kilomers, then one minute of happy shooting --and two days of work in Photoshop CS3." Klaus Nordby in Northern Norway. Via John Nack.
"I met the bear in person once, at a dive bar in Greenwich Village." The Bear in Repose at TMN.
30 amazing abstract satellite images of earth.
Lovely work from photographer Stephen Gill. be sure to check out A Series of Disappointments.
What we did last night with about a million other people.
Meena Kadri's photos of Coca-Cola Graphics in India. Via 1+1=3.
Something new to try: Yosemite in 3D right on your monitor. Via BoingBoing.
For a bit of quiet inspiration, check in on 3191, a year of evenings.
Photographer Nick Veasey's X-Ray series.
Gunter Borgemeister's Iceland panoramas and some shots. Just gorgeous.
"In a photograph that is pared down, one ends up with slightly hyper-realistic imagery --precise and clear, but the meaning is elusive." An interview and slide show with Edgar Martin in the TMN Galleries, Topologies.
Amazing photos from a surfing trip to the Amazon.
There is always cinema.
Defaced at Square America.
Saw a cool photo in a 20-year-old National Geographic while I was getting an oil change yesterday, and thought "I wish I could buy a print of that."
The Book of Sleep.
"Whilst on a job in Bishop, California I came across this 'old' NASA unit. It's beautiful and still stands on the edge of this small town traveling from LA to Las Vegas." Via Sci-Fi Hi-Fi.
Jason Tozer's Bubble Photos and how he captured them.
Experiments in 3D photography, Girls & Guns.
Lots of people caught the huge, double rainbow over Chicago yesterday evening.
Fantastic, photographer Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books.
The Smithsonian Institution has begun posting archival photos on Flickr, check out this great collection of portraits of artists.
Gorgeous, solstice moonrise in Greece.
Automotive monogamy.
The photography of Joe Wolek. Via gmt+9 (-15).
The perfect past.
"It was like putting a child in front of an audience and saying: Go and do a little curtsy." Ed Ruscha's best shot. Fab. Via my new favorite photography weblog, Chas Bowie's That's A Negative.
Want to sell your photography? Photoshelter has assembled a helpful School Of Stock.
Photographer William Hundley's Friends of Spot.
Chris Jordan's photographs tell, among other things, of the magnitude of American consumption and waste. Check out his "Running the Numbers" series.
Young Me - Now Me.
"...essentially a one-of-a-kind object, like an oil painting or daguerreotype." Gone in Sixty Seconds, an excellent essay by Phil Patton for AIGA, on the legacy of Polaroid.
Alexey Titarenko's City of Shadows. Via It's Nice That.
Too cute, Lego Wall-E.
Amazing. A remarkable photo from tornado country.
A brilliant new body of work from photographer Meg Wachter who a captures a split second of time when a food product is dumped on her friends' heads. Via Shape + Color.
Fantastic, photographer Denis Darzacq's series Hyper.
BldgBlog on "City of Shadows," Alexey Titarenko's haunting, long-exposure shots of crowds in St. Petersburg, Russia.
There is beauty at the Car Wash.
For some reason, my rainy days don't look this pretty.
Photographer Sam Taylor-Wood shot pictures of famous Hollywood actors in the Crying Men series.
"Chokito gets you disgoing" Really bad cover art.
Nice collection of photos of Jazz musicians.
A Library of Congress series, 1930s-40s in Color. Described as "pretty much the best Flickr set, ever" by a source as reliable as they come, The DDC in Portland. You'll find no disagreement from Chicago.
Stunning, The Sky from above.
Great collection of vintage album covers.
Lovely, photos of Tehran.
Striking photos from Branislav Kropilak.
Joe Kral's huge collection of book covers. Thanks Jeff!
Lovely, photographer Eric Schubert's series, Same As It Ever Was.
Over at the TMN galleries, Phone Sex Operators.
Fab, photographer Kotama Bouabane's Melting Words.
Fab, photographer Mandi Gavois' Cars.
A photo series of blank façades.
Great photo of migrating stingrays. Via Towleroad.
Nick Veasey's X-Rays and Under My Skin. Via Ace Jet 170.
Wow, a man takes a Polaroid picture every day for two decades.
"Sometimes I am in real danger; I have to hang myself high with steel wires and people do get a little worried for me, but I am fine." The gravity-defying photography of Li Wei.
"The city that they lost." Photos of Moscow in 1960.
Photo tampering throughout history.
Lovely photography from John Mann. Particularly fond of Folded In Place.
"I couldn't change my perspective. I just had to grab it, if I could." Photographer Paul Fusco talking about shooting crowds through the window on the RFK funeral train. Thanks Henry.
Assisted by data from amateur satellite observers, Trevor Paglen created The Other Night Sky "a project to track and photograph classified American satellites in Earth orbit." More information at greg.org.
"In this series from Los Angeles, I am using images that underscore the cyborg nature of the city and its environs..." David Maisel's Oblivion. Thanks again Marshall.
Adland highlights photographer Francesco Nencini's awesome ads for Detective Magazine, "Garden," and "Library."
It's in the eyes and expressions.
A panorama of Moscow in 1901.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms at the Getty. "Rendered with absolute precision in the palette of cool grays characteristic of medium-contrast gelatin silver prints, each structure is centered against a cloudless sky, filling the picture frame." Via gmt+9 (-15).
"When I started shooting bankrupt offices I found it to be more archeology than photography. Everywhere I went I found signs of life, interrupted." Via Boing.
Of detached interest to some. Stuff of sweaty palms, jerky breaths, and heart palpitations for those like me.
"Pressing the photographic paper against the tube, heat and light emanating from the television are relayed. Producing its own light, the television image is self-inscribed, fulfilling the desire to span distances, making illusions more present." Photograms by Matthew Gamber; This is (Still) the Golden Age.
"That clown looks like he had 2 vodkas and is ready to hit you if you don't give him is 3rd." Yes, he does.
Photographer Stefan Abrams has some great stuff here. Be sure to check out the After Cinema series, fab.
Automotive Monogamy, a photo project by Matteo Ferrari. Via Perpenduum.
Eighteen years of daily photos till the day of his death. It floored me. Via Glass.
Andreas Wolkerstorfer's cameras: "mouseover for pic of the camera
& click for photos taken with this camera." Via It's Nice That.
Paul Fusco, a young photographer on assignment for Look Magazine, was aboard RFK's funeral train as it made its way down the eastern seaboard towards Arlington National Cemetary on June 5, 1968. These are some of the pictures he took.
In an homage to my all time favorite 5mph sign, which was formerly posted near the Cortland Street bridge in Chicago, a photo pool of fives and a set of fives.
License plates of the Caribbean Islands.
Fantastic, huge collection of Veloce books covers.
Photos of the San Francisco 1906 earthquake and fire.
Obama Does Portland. The scale is stunning. That's a lot of people. Via the DDC.
Corey Arnold fishes. But he's also a photographer. Via BySoAndSo.
Lovely, One night in Beijing.
Fantastic collection of photos, Life in Soviet Russia; Private Moments.
Lovely Flickr pool, The Architecture of the Piano. Via Grow a Brain.
Here in Chicago, we play Monopoly for real.
"When the night comes to this small town in Russia it's dwellers dress their into their best cloths and go to the promenade by the city river bank among the steel horror sculptures erected by unknown genius." Horror by the river.
Lovely photography from Alan Cook.
The adventures of the Middleman.
The Disappearing World of Soho's Independent Record Shops.
Catching the sun.
Lovely work from photographer Juliane Eirich. The Schools set is fantastic.
Patterns are everywhere and Fitting in society's box.
Andrew Huff finds a new use for a lazy susan -- a fake dolly.
What's left.
Great photos from photographer Martin Beckett, 360 degrees.
So great, vintage classical album covers.
Happiness, the book.
Great photos of a Russian abandoned tank base.
Ansel Adams Yosemite slide show, narrated by his former assistant, Andrea G. Stillman and a related travel article from the NYT.
Great collection of paper ephemera.
Lovely, Chalk.
Whimsical photos by Robert Wechsler.
Free Readymech Pinhole Cameras from Corbis. Designed by Fwis in NYC.
Andy Warhol's Photo Booth Self-Portrait. Linked as a hint to the new subscriber-only contest that's part of the Infrequent Mailing that goes out today. Not on the list? Give us your email address under "Puzzled" on the left.
Lovely, The Gegenschein over Chile.
Take a peek inside Communist North Korea.
Photos of the moment: Lightning vs. Erupting Volcano. It doesn't get much more impressive and/or scary than that.
Fabulous hi def photos of San Francisco. Via Dark Roasted Blend.
Some of the creepiest photos ever taken.
This and the bottom row of this give me an idea. Someone out there, do it, so I don't have to.
Nice collection of vintage record labels.
"Federally subsidized subsitinance."
The best photo on the internets? Saturday Night! Via Cynical-C.
Lovely photo set, Multiples.
Sorry I Missed Your Party. Pictures of other people's parties from Flickr.
Close Up, portraiture by Martin Schoeller. Thanks Marshall.
Photographer Alexander Petrosian's gorgeous photos of urban decay.
A nice surprise to run into: Preston Davis just started The Jewelboxing Group, a Flickr pool of case designs, several of which have been featured over at our Jewelboxing blog.
Check the latest at DQ Books, Beneath a Steel Sky.
Photobombing, via Glass.
Lovely seaside photos. Via DRB.
Great photo sets of abandoned buildings.
Vibrant photos from a supermarket.
Related to my earlier post about street graffiti, thanks to Eugene for sending a link to his street graffiti shots.
Huge photo set of street graffiti.
Nos Vies Invisibles (Our Lives Invisible) a beautiful series by French photographer Yann Orhan. Via Concientious.
Nice collection of vintage shortwave radio ads.
Gorgeous and creepy at the same time, the work of photographer Joshua Hoffine. Via Dark Roasted Blend.
Appropriate for today in Chicago, photos of a rainy day.
"Flash Cube? Flash Cube!" Spot for Kodak's Instamatic (with Flash Cube) from the 1960s. Via Cynical-C.
Artist Lilly McElroy walks up to strange men, asks if she can throw herself at them and photographs the moment. Via Swiss Miss.
Gorgeous photos of China from the air.
Lovely photography over at Au fil de...
Gorgeous, the Aurora Borealis in Murmansk.
Check back in with Polanoid, who are "building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography."
Extra relevant for today: San Francisco Earthquake Panoramas from 1906, which, strangely, also happened on April 18th.
Great collection of vintage sci-fi comic books covers.
Nice collection of Pulp Fiction book covers.
Stunning 360 panorama of The Great Wall in China.
Storm Troopin'.
Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey. Slow to load, but check out the "Class Pictures" project.
Beautiful wall.
Giant collection of illustrations from vintage children's books.
Local note, two of the nicest people we know, Andy and Julie from Letterform are having a showing of photography this Saturday here in Chicago. Details are here. If you're in town, get yourself over there.
Lovely Flickr photoset, The Street as Graphic Novel.
Fantastic, photos of food that takes the shape of it's container. Via Swiss Miss.
So you know: How to Make a Pop Up Photograph. Via Brand Peel.
Great print ad for Polaroid. Via bblinks.
Photos of a 1968 Fender Catalog.
Vintage ads from comic books.
I tried my hand at underwater photography when I lived in the Caribbean. Sadly, nothing looked as remotely breathtaking as this or this.
Great collection of Stick Figure Signs.
Yuri's Planet.
Firefox logo spotted in deep space by the Hubble Telescope.
Lovely, Aged to Perfection.
Worried that maybe I'm the last person to hear this tale of stock photography gone awry, but here it goes anyway: The Everywhere Girl and her back story on the whole thing. Via AdFreak.
Cinemas of Italy.
Lovely, Bits of Things.
Transformational Light, the photography of Christopher Talbot.
Lego recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Behind the Gare Saint Lazare." Check out the set-up shot too. By Balakov, who "takes a lot of pictures of Legos. Thanks Alison.
Nice collection of Indian Street Graphics.
The history of computer data storage, in pictures.
"Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up."
"I am not a photographer, yet taking pictures has given me a sense of unity and personal satisfaction. They are relics of my life. Souvenirs of my wandering. All that I have learned concerning light and composition is contained within them." Land 250 Polaroid Photographs by Patti Smith.
Megalopolis Shanghai, a photo series by Horst and Daniel Zielske. Via gmt+9(-15).
Nice collection of Lomo Fisheye photos.
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Want to see how the Space Shuttle gets ready for liftoff? Some great images for my space-obsessed daughter, via Kottke.
Consumer Reports Vintage Photo Gallery.
13 Fabulous Photos of a Rainy Day.
"Not Quite Dead Enough" and "What a Body!" are just a few of the titles in this cover gallery of 1940's Paperback Mysteries.
In many ways Chicago in the '60s is the star of this exhibition, American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh. Extreme wide-format bxw photography. Awesome.
"Each piece is built out of just two shapes, a "stick" and a "stone" (for example: box/cube, box/sphere, cylinder/sphere), that are positioned and arranged according to various simple rules. The resulting agglomeration of shapes is often much more complex than the simple shapes and rules would suggest." Sticks and Stones.
This breaks my heart, An Abandoned Library.
"When the bullet hit, Murphy never batted an eye." Bullet Proof Vest Testing in 1923.
The white space wednesday photo pool. Via swissmiss.
Great photoset of Supermarket photos.
The photography of Popel Coumou of The Netherlands. Dramatic and simple, to the point of abstraction. I. II. III. Via Joachim Baan.
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Nice collection of Extra Large Panorama photos.
SeoWoo and Her Pink Things. Jake and His Blue Things.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe's photography for Harper's Bazaar. Via Dinosaurs and Robots.
Chicago never looked so good. Great collection of HDR photos of the city. Via YoChicago.
Really great fashion photography by Mark Gong.
"Just One More!"
Lastlightbender has been experimenting with Polaroid transfers, parts one and two.
David, who won our Creative Relativity Formula Contest last week, received his prizes and the giving continues as he starts his own "Shoot Joe" contest, to give away one of the Field Notes memo books he won. Nice.
For BB: Per our long conversation about it a month ago, here's a review of the Sigma DP1 camera. If you buy it, pick me up one too, huh?
Blah Blah Blah America a File Mag gallery by Aaron Santos.
Rich, beautiful large-format Kodachromes from 1941 and 42 by photographer Alfred Palmer. Lots more here. Thanks Marshall.
Photobiennale 2008, the 7th international photography month in Moscow. Via gmt=9 (-15).
Nice photos by Estelle Hanania.
A collection of HDR Pics of Graffiti.
"Subjects are unaware of the exact moment they will be photographed and of the photographer's identity. Instead, the subject is photographed completely naturally, living life as normal." MethodIzaz, your own personal paparazzi. Via bblinks.
The new version of the Rolleiflex MiniDigi, "a digital replica of the original classic twin reflex camera."
Typology: study of or analysis or classification based on types or categories. See Matthias Petrus Schaller's photography. Via Conscientious.
A lovely view of Chicago from 36,000 feet at night.
Maya Newman's "Doubles," a fab photoset. Plus her Lomo portfolio. Via The Cartoonist.
Lovely Flickr set of German Graphic Design.
Nice Flickr set of Eastern European Poster Art.
The ten legal commandments of photography.
Moon over Byzantium.
Lovely photography of an abandoned satellite facility.
The Dazzling Beauty of Horror.
Your Camera Doesn't Matter versus Your Camera Does Matter.
Chicagoan and occasional co-conspirator Brian Ulrich is currently showing his photography at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Check out "Consuming Imagery," an audio slideshow.
The iHole, "the revolutionary analog photographic device constructed from the recycled packaging of digital technology." Thanks Henry.
"This ongoing body of work examines the chair of the New York psychotherapist from the point of view of their clients." I'm not sure how that makes me feel. Via c77.
Related to the last. And Andrew brought his camera and stylish specs.
Lovely miniature photography by Erin Tyner.
Beautiful new collection of Jacob Holdt's photographs: United States 1970 - 1975. Via We Made This.
The Shutter Sisters is a collaborative blog of women photographers, both pros and amateurs. Check out the The Daily Click.
Lovely, Typography Photography prints.
Lovely Flickr set of Long Exposures.
Aerial photography by Alex MacLean. Via Things magazine.
The architectural photography and installations of Renate Buser. Smart. Beautiful. Surprising.
Photos from a Russian Police School.
Nice collection of roller coaster photos.
Lovely photos taken with a Holga camera , Holga Heaven.
Fantastic Flickr set of vintage Star Wars related materials, including the photographer's original movie ticket stub.
Nice collection of photos from Chicago's World Fair in 1893.
The Scattered Image, a sort of Cubist, Hockneyesque approach to photography. Via CPluv.
Lovely Flickr set, Nightography.
Night Aerial Photography by Jason Hawkes, at File Mag.
For SE who loves rusty items, Abandoned Frozen Ships.
China eats crow over faked photo of rare antelope. Via Clusterflock.
Sometimes There Are No Words.
Architectural photographs by Andrew Raimist, Architecture of the Sun.
Bauhaus.
The wonderful Photography of Catherine Ledner. Via 2 or 3 Things.
Galeria Cuba.
Makes me want to hop in the car and hit the road, fab Vintage Road Trip related ephemera.
The photography of Oyvind Hjelmen.
Fascinating, artist Mark Michaelson collects mug shots of ordinary people dating from the 1870's to the 1960's. He calls them the Least Wanted. Listen to the Weekend Edition interview here.
Homemade Bellows Lens for $25.
Fab photography by Miles Aldridge
The photography of Kim Holtermand. Via Kitsune Noir.
The photography portfolio of JeanYves Lemoigne is in turns witty, funny and beautiful. Check these selections at Le Club Club.
Fantastic photos from Pakistan.
Various Works by Kevin Bewersdorf
Great collection of Scholastic Book Club covers from the 60's and 70's.
From this month's Vanity Fair Hollywood issue, photos of famous scenes from Hitchcock movies shot with current stars.
"Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines." The project is called The Ones We Love. Via Swiss Miss.
Great photo set of Mid-Century Modern house plans. Via Materialicious.
Fabulous architectural photography over at Kurt & Walter.
Lovely, Nigel's photoset of bookstores.
"It's never been opened. Ever. It hasn't seen the light of day since before it was shipped on May 5th, 1988." Dan opens his most recent Ebay purchase and takes pictures for us. Via Boing Boing.
Don't forget your camera tomorrow, Super Tuesday voters: AIGA and Design Observer have relaunched their Polling Place Photo Project with the support of the New York Times.
Just because. A really great winter photo.
"Even though they were essential to farming, most farmers could only buy a tractor by paying a substantial bribe. Necessity forced farmers to become inventive, and to defy the system that imposed limits upon them." Tractors in Poland. Via Transbuddha.
Photographer Lewis W. Hine documented Child Labor in America 1908- 1912.
Great photo set, Swiss Graphic Design History.
Fun with Smoke.
$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera. Smart. Thanks JSM.
Artist Yeondoo Jung takes children's drawings, recreates them in real life and photographs the results.
Great collection of vintage ads, the I Love My Electric Appliance!! photoset.
Lovely little photoset of vintage book covers.
"Great Falls, Montana. Return after 3 wks Vacation. June 27, 1964."
Weegee Collection, great group of documentary photos from the 1930-60s. Via gmt+9(-15).
Lovely photography by Kevin Cooley.
Need an industrial fix? Check out a few of Bluejake's urban photo essays: In the Dogpatch, Domino Sugar Refinery, Greenpoint Terminal Market, Glendale Power Station.
MS needs one of these. If she can't catch the raccoon on her deck, she could at least take embarassing photos of it and post them on the internet.
Fantastic photos of Barcelona.
Great Chicago dawn photo by Phil Dokas, while flying in for Seed on Friday. More.
Fantastic, photos of 50 Great Film Directors at Work.
HDR photography is already fairly surreal, but when combined with subject matter like this or this or this, it's another thing altogether. The Japanese HDR Flickr pool.
The Phoenix Art Museum has a fabulous exhibit of photos from iconic photographer Richard Avedon. His In the American West collection features photos of drifters, miners, bartenders, housekeepers. Ordinary people whose images are evocative, rich in character and even a bit confrontational.
Some interesting photographic imagery and style over at Cornershots.
Two photos, taken 3191 miles apart, placed side by side each evening for a year. Following their year of mornings, Stephanie and Mav begin A Year of Evenings.
Lovely collection of photos of vintage fabrics.
New over at the TMN galleries, Psychics.
Holly Ormrod works well with paper. Via d*s.
A peek inside Taryn Simon's new book An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.
Flat Roof House Night Sky.
Fantastic photos of computer equipment by photographer Mark Richards. Via MeFi.
Ellen Susan's Soldier Portraits are made using a 150 year old wet-plate collodion process, which was popular during the Civil War era. Awesome.
Lovely, Birth and Death of Stars. Via Grow A Brain.
No digital. No retouching. No color-balancing. No cropping. No nothing. Just 36 frames to tell a story. The 36 Exposures Contest, a File/Flak/CP Joint.
Derek Powazek's thoughts on How to Shoot Events.
The folks over at City of Sound have cooked up an interesting idea. It's a collaborative project searching for the World's Best Urban Spaces and Places. Open to all, the best photo entries will be available in a free pamphlet form or you can pay for a higher end printed piece. Take a peek at some of the submissions so far here.
The perfect photo of a Chuck Wagon Cook. Imagine the stories he'd tell around the campfire.
Lovely photos of Old Jerusalem.
Gorgeous photos of the abandoned Castle of Miranda in Belgium.
"Most of these are intended to be viewed "from a distance" as a whole, not studied in detail up close (though you are welcome to do that too if you like) -- so scoot your chair back a few feet from the monitor for best effect." Fantastic, Density by Dave Bollinger.
Great portrait studio photos and wicked commentary to match.
Cool Hunting picks their top five photographers of 2007.
Flower arrangements frozen with liquid nitrogen and then photographed at the moment of explosion Stunning.
Amazing photography by Jody Morris.
Bending Light, a photo set of refraction patterns made by light passing through various glass and transparent objects.
Continuing the photography themed links, fantastic and slyly funny photos by Matt Stuart.
Snowflake photos by Yaroslav Gnatuk. Via DRB.
Melissa Kronenthal's The Traveler's Lunchbox. Delicious. Via Veerle.
"I just walked around the car holding the light stand, and firing it off with my master PW which I held in my other hand. I just tried to keep a steady rhythm around the car. My arm is sore." Via Ben Hammersley.
Lovely photos of Northern Ireland.
Fotoalfabeto.
How to Photograph the Holidays, a valuable series of tutorials from Photojojo. Via bblinks.
Photoset of the moment: Ampersandland. Via 1+1=3.
Beijing artist Hong Hao scans and assembles the things of his life, transforming mundane objects into a document of a sort of personal archeology. Via Cool Hunting.
Lake, Mountain, Sky and Mist.
Jacques saw me tomorrow morning, by Lieko Shiga, 2004.
1976, a photographic and musical journey "through the ghettos, farmlands and lifestyles of Cuba." Thanks Marshall.
Reuters picks their Photos of the Year 2007.
Reuters' selections for Pictures of the Year.
Crochet, crochet and more crochet in the 20th Century Comfort Room. Via 2 or 3 Things.
Wow, fabulous photos by David Giral. Check out all his sets, lovely.
"Taking photographs with 'intent'?" Miguel Garcia-Guzman on our 36 Exposures Challenge.
Chris Strong.
The photography of Bryan Schutmaat.
Great photos of underwater sculptures.
How come peeling paint looks so much better in French? Magnifique.
Gorgeous photography by Maciej Duczynski.
Sort of related. George Seurat's "Saturday in the Park" on the banks of the Rock River in Beloit Wisconsin.
The photography of Johannes Twielemeier. Via JSM.
Lovely, Cosas Minimas.
Terrific Flickr pool of Brisbane's painted traffic signal boxes. Via Grow A Brain.
"Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital." David Maisel's Library of Dust project.
Yay film! We'll have much more to say about this soon, but we're happy to be collaborating on an analog photo contest with the crew at File Magazine. Get a head start on The 36 Exposures Contest, a File/CP joint.
Photographer Noel Kerns' gorgeous Flickr photoset, Night Work. I love Bumper Crop.
For the narcissist on your holiday gift list, the self-portrait camera extension arm.
"A digital photograph, on the other hand, can be a Photoshop fairy tale, containing only a tiny trace of a small fragment of reality." Peter Plagens, Is Photography Dead?
Face Your Pockets.
Curiously Incongruous, a great collection of photos of everyday London. Nice stuff. Thanks to 30gms.
Photographer Martin Waugh's Liquid Sculptures. Lovely.
Rusty, decaying, dying, abandoned, photos. So hard to choose but this could be my fave, Rusted Doughnuts.
Check out photographer Jeff Lieberman"s fantastic Frozen series. Wow.
I think I just became a vegetarian, Mystery Meat Macrophotography.
Fantastic Flickr photoset of typography.
Photographer Nicolas Chorier uses kites to take his aerial photos. Lovely.
"Secretly Creepy is a collection of photographs I have collected from Ebay over the past five years." Ah, yeah, creepy is right. Some photos NSFW.
Great collection of magazine covers.
Eerie but lovely photography by Nicholas Hughes.
For SE, All things rusty.
I do love the internets. Saw a road sign last weekend, appreciated it, and before making it back to shoot some images without getting run over, found that someone had taken that risk for me. Awesome.
Traveling Babo Uglydoll Adventures, see where he's been!
Strictly No Photography, sets of photos from places where photos are prohibited. Via Cynical C.
Lovely photos by Matthew Schenning.
Photos and history of Ghost Signs in Toronto.
Gorgeous shot of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse in San Francisco.
Lovely photos by photographer Joe Reifer.
An exhibition of vintage and contemporary prints from the Conde Nast archives go on display at the National Portrait Gallery in February. Here's a sneak peak.
Joseph O. Holmes' silhouettes of people visiting the American Museum of Natural History. Via Kottke.
"The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can." Running from the Camera.
Living In Three Centuries: the face of age.
Sweet polaroid transfers and emulsion lifts by Hilary Hitchcock. Found among other things.
Kevin's ride through Koolhaas' acoustic tube at IIT.
Abandoned swimming pools.
Lovely panoramic view of Krakow Military Cemetary on All Saints Day.
Slightly off kilter but fascinating photography by Rachel Cartwright.
It is somewhat well known that I dislike insects. That said, photographer Igor Siwanowicz has some pretty fabulous bug photos. And I can't believe I'm saying this but whose the cutest bug ever? Dorcus!
John Law's Panoramic Projects 2006-07. Make sure to click through to the gorgeous full-screen files. The Bath Abbey might be a place to start. Found among other things.
Robot Gathering.
Japan gives us the first HD shots of the moon. Via Oh Gizmo.
Photoset of the moment: Sean Wood's street photography. Via Jean Snow.
Lovely photos from photographer Beth Evans.
Lovely. 1960's Polaroid pictures of signs.
The Adventures Of Mr. Fly.
Lovely photos by Nikolai Cornell, Shadow and Light.
John Huck's large series of people and their breakfasts is more interesting than it sounds. Via I Like.
My army of the undead.
Santa Muerte photo essay.
"Ursine", Jill Greenberg's series of bear photos at TMN.
Scary, funny, goofy. Get some inspiration for your pumpkin carving.
Deleted Images.
The Awkwardness of Adolescence. Amazing photoset from Julia Fullerton-Batten.
Find tons of great work in the sets of photographer Tommy Oshima.
Two shots of the gorgeous sunset out the CP windows right now.
Lovely. Photographer Stephen Gill takes pictures, buries them where they were taken then digs them up to see how the place has left it's mark on the photo. Buried.
Film is not dead it just smells funny, a place for photographers who are not using a digital camera.
The lyrical long-exposure photography of Alexey Titarenko, plus an audio interview.
X-Ray photography by Nick Veasey. Via It's Nice That.
Some photos from this weekend's Lights Out San Francisco. Via Eyebeam.
PingMag interviews film maker, photographer, animator and artist Michael England .
Heidi over at 101 cookbooks just got back from Rome. Check out her lovely photos here.
"The flash was more powerful than the spirit." Thomas Dworzak's Taliban studio photography. Really interesting slideshow. Via Byrdhouse.
Lovely photography by Dan Montgomery.
White Stripes-branded Lomo/Holga cameras. Coming soon: Coldplay-brand oral contraceptives.
"Assuntina donned a suit of long, heavy woolen underwear to make her look more treelike and skipped out to pose in the olive grove."
HiRISE adds 143 new color images of Mars.
Fantastic underwater photography by David Doubilet. Been there, done that.
Checking out Thinking Picture - some really wonderful images.
Photoset of the moment: Lonesome Spring Rocker Animals. "They cannot move, but they rock like hell." Via I Like.
Photographer Hans-Christian Schink's Verkehrsprojekte (Traffic Project).
The $10 Fisheye Lens, made from a spare front door peephole. Via DesignNotes.
Photographer Peter McReady takes you on 360 degree tour of The Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator. Via Archinect.
Lovely photography by James Shanks.
See what your tongue sees. Fantastic photography project, The Mouthpiece Pinhole Project. Via Engadget.
"In fact, the technical limitations of these lenses tend to lead to the kind of snapshots that the photographer presumably bought an SLR to avoid." Gary Voth has some advice for a Zoom Nation.
"I look for the beauty in these places, imagining what's behind closed doors." Liz Kuball's photo series at File Mag, "In Store."
Related to the last, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest in 1995.
So much for the morning. Spending my time taking a look around.
Lovely pinhole photography.
The photos certainly live up to the name of the site, Fabpics.
A photographic series, Daido Moriyama's Kyoku/Erotica. Sublime, check all four parts. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Amazing insect photography by Igor Siwanowicz.
A Metropolis Magazine slide show annotated by recent quotes from seminal architectural photographer Julius Shulman. Splendid.
Skyline-strained sunbeams.
Triops, the digital camera that can be thrown.
Retrievr searches flickr based on your sketch. Neato! Via pica+pixel.
"It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me. Via Drawn.
"Every year New Beetles from all over the country caravan to Roswell, New Mexico for the Roswell2K New Beetle car show... This year, our caravan was a special Route 66 caravan of 20 or so cars, hitting the Mother Road in search of the Mothership, from Chicago to L.A., more than 2000 miles on the way."
New over at the TMN galleries, Cinemascapes.
An installation of 12 knives, with sentences etched on their blades.
Zena Holloway, underwater photographer and director.
"The license plate is almost as large as her automobile, but Miss Mary Bay likes her car because it is easy to park."
Photography indexed by emotion.
Harlem in 13 gigapixels, now that's some serious stitching.
Straight lines rarely look as good as they do in this photoset by photographer Grant Hamilton. Via 2 or 3.
"I am naturally compelled to create architectural, industrial and landscape photographs. I use lines, atmosphere, movement and light to capture the essence of my subject matter." The portfolio of Kristopher Grunert. Sublime. Here's a profile at Behance.
QT panoramic of The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles by Laurent Thion. Stunning. Lots more 360 degree photographs at Panoramas.dk.
In the summer of 1957, Glamour Photography Magazine went out on the road looking for "fresh new faces" in The Great Cross-Country Girl Hunt. By today's standards it's pretty innocent and also pretty hilarious, Here's the entire magazine scanned. Via PCL.
Breakfast, a photo project. Via swissmiss.
"Yesterday at the flea market I picked up a small cosmetics case stuffed with photos almost all of which were of the same woman." Sort of like the real life version of Happy's Jane Lloyd short. Via Transbuddha.
Mister Aitch on the ineffable art of photographer Didier Massard.
For BB, good references for next week's all night city shoots: Tim Rudder's Nightime in Central Tokyo and 8mm shooting at night, both via Jean Snow.
Beth Budwig's sweet shot of a Chicago sunrise, found in the AEA Chicago photo pool.
Lovely, ethereal photography from Bart Julius Peters.
Occupied Territory, the photography of Lynne Cohen.
Select shots from John Londei's new book of photographs: Shutting Up Shop: The Decline of the Traditional Small Shop. Via I Like.
"Movie theatres and theatres of all kinds have always fascinated me, and I always photograph any that I see." Via Bibi.
Automatic content-aware image rescaling technology blows my mind, despite its vast potential for misuse.
Grant Hamilton's Polaroid Portfolio. Via The Miss Who Is Swiss.
Camera Toss revisited.
Over at the galleries at TMN, Monsters.
"I'm fascinated with the idea of anonymity - and what better place to find it than in an office?" Mr. Toledano will see you now.
Check the "Not People" gallery of Stockholm's Sannah Kvist, and her photoblog is great too, She Broke My Heart So I Broke Her Face. Via Another Company.
Photographer Robert Vizzini brought a fresh perspective and a toy camera to something millions of other people have shot before him. Five Hours On The Rock at File Mag.
So you know. How to create your own planets using panoramic or landscape photos.
Stunning photos by Galen Rowell. Found while reading Three Cups of Tea.
Posted his photos the other day but over at the TMN galleries, they have a nice interview with Martin Klimas.
The real thing looks pretty neat too.
Kathleen Connally takes us on a walk through Durham Township, Pennsylvania.
San Francisco, 1971, a panorama from the Bay Bridge by Bruce Steinberg. Via GaB.
The photography of Sharad Haksar. Check the "superhero" series for Stori clothing. Via Computerlove.
Lovely photos of northern Norway by Thomas Laupstad
Other PotDs. Botany, Earth Sciences, NASA, Earth, Sunset.
Lovely photo-set from the Bristol Balloon Fiesta.
Wow. Gorgeous photography by Martin Klimas.
Looking through a friend's untitled photo gallery just now, I wondered "What does everyone else's IMG_3544 look like?"
A guided tour of Hemingway's house in Cuba. Via bblinks.
The Items We Carry are the small things we put in our pockets or on our persons -- the essentials we need to function daily at a basic level.
Lovely urban landscape photos over the
Dramatic URBAN vistas flickr pool.
Gorgeous photography by Nick Guttridge.
"Tree" by Myoung Ho Lee, "an elaborate series of photographs that pose some unusual questions about representation, reality, art, environment and seeing." Also, a quick look behind the scene.
The photography of Todd Hido. Of note, the series "Homes at Night." Sublime.
Sofia Leverbeck hates gravity. Via Netdiver.
Bob Kessler's Western Ave. Project. "I created this project by walking Western Ave. in Chicago. I began at 127th St. and walked in five-block increments over a three-year period. I created hundreds of images." Via Time Out Chicago.
Still in the thick of my epic trip through Nebraska. And when you're anywhere near Alliance, you don't have a choice but to make a pilgrimage to Carhenge, a replica of Stonehenge but with 38 cars.
Underground at the Titan Missile Museum, a photo tour through the former launch site.
Video from Cool Hunting's visit to artist Lori Nix's studio. We featured Nix a while ago in our Depth of Field series, "Lori makes pictures that force the viewer to confront the world as she has made it."
The photography of Heiko Rintelen. Note the grocery product still life series. Via Conscientious.
When we linked this up a few days ago there were just a couple dozen entries, now there are over 500 people showing The Items They Carry. Smart, that Naz guy.
Our SD is on a winding trip through Nebraska. He's taking photos along the way.
Bees, Bees and more Bees.
Life in A Microcosmic World. Lovely.
Go fly a kite, but first attach a Nokia N95 to it with duct tape. Via Digital Urban.
Been looking to find a complete collection of this for the past couple of years and here it is: color photographs from the Russian Empire by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, taken between 1909 and 1915. Via Cynical C.
A touch unsettling, but beautiful none the less: Photographer Vee Speers' The BirtHDay Party series.
Gorgeous Friday photo at Globorati.
Really interesting photos by Joshua Dalsimer
Eight photographers were invited to live in John Hejduk's Wall House and shoot the building however they saw fit for the Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking series. Via Archinect.
Gerard Maynard's huge panoramic, taken from his Harlem rooftop. Via Mefi.
Photographs from Hemingway's Cats, an illustrated biography. Via Cynical C.
Wow. Gorgeous photography from Marcel Lam.
Not sure exactly what it is, besides just the obvious high level of talent, but it's quite easy to kill off an long batch of time with the photography of Bernhard Wolf. "Serious business."
I love Deleted Images.
Appropriate for a post made from T3 at ORD, The Windowseat, photography on the fly.
"Dark Space," a lovely series by photographer Brendan Austin. Via Another Company.
Browse all of them but especially DQ Books #4, Beneath the Steel Sky, analog photography of NYC by Festo.
"This was a 258 truck-ballet in which the contractor placed 11,500 yards of concrete in one monolithic pour that got started at five in the morning and finished by three in the afternoon." San Diego Concrete Pour. Great shot.
Star Wars in Paris by Cedric Delsaux.
Wow, my dollhouse did not have near this detail.
With no real plans for the 4th, we decided to aimlessly drive alongside Lake Michigan for most of the day. When we saw an abandoned mini golf course somewhere near Zion, Illinois, we stopped, wandered around and took photos.
Photoset of the moment: History of San Pedro Punk. Via Torrez.
Vernacular photography, by definition, is made up of mostly unspectacular images. But John and Teenuh Foster's collection, Accidental Mysteries, is pretty damn spectacular.
Pierre Petit's photos of the 1910 Paris flood.
Courir les Rues (Run the Streets). Sweeping, cinematic, panoramic images, capturing movement and distance. By Gwenaël Bélanger.
One Day in Space, a series of photos from the Atlantis.
Billboards by Stephen Gill. "Whatever the product, we read the visual signs in a flash and absorb the meaning in spite of ourselves." Via gmt+9 (-15).
That's how you pay a bill. Via MB Chicago.
"Just because you own a camera and take pictures of your buddies when you're drunk doesn't mean you're a great photographer. It's actually very difficult to take a photo that's interesting to anyone beyond the other drunk people in the photograph but Sanna Charles has this rare talent." Fab photos. Via Kripy.
Andrej Belic's scuba photography.
A directory of the U.S Government's free stock photo sites: Uncle Sam's Photos. Too bad it's not searchable.
A nice, and quite extensive, list of online photography tools and resources.
Polar Inertia #28.
Tim Rudder bought a fast new lens for his camera and took these beautiful shots on a night out in Tokyo. Via Jean Snow.
Camera Hacks features how-tos on everything from building bicycle or vehicle camera mounts to doing video transfers from digital cameras to camcorders.
Photos of an abandoned and overgrown amusement park in Ohio, Chippewa Lake Park. Awww.
The photography of Sally Gall, see also a selection of her work at MoFAP. Via Moon River.
Autochromes, The World Goes Color-Mad, a new exhibition on the history of color photography at the American Museum of Photography.
Over 600 slides from the 1950s - 1960s.
Photographer Manny Diller's Phoenix Suburbanscape. My first job in high school took place within the confines of that 23rd photograph. Via Polar Inertia.
Sam's fabulous King's College Circle photo, and how he made it. Thanks Marshall.
The eerie photography of Grace Weston. "Staged Vignettes and Photo Illustration." Via bblinks.
Marshall writes to tell us of a possible alternative to our RinseCam 9000™.
The photographs of Virginia Beahan, Cuba Now, at the Joseph Bellows Gallery. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Earth Album is a neat Flickr/Google Maps mash-up.
Manila Carnival, a vintage photoset.
I've been enjoying The Plastic Lens for a while, and when I came across some of the very cool recent images rescued from a lab-induced light leak, I'm just hoping that some of my vacation photos come out as well next trip.
Lens Culture interview with plastic camera evangelist, photographer and author Michelle Bates.
The Hubble Heritage Gallery. Lots of stunning imagery like the Cat's Eye Nebula and V838 Monocerotis Light Echo.
Nic Nichols in London on May Day with camera.
Buildings of Los Angeles, photographs by Julius Shulman.
New at the galleries over at TMN , Working With Family.
Gorgeous photos by Paul Nicklen.
What the World Eats, a photo series in Time Magazine taken from Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio's book Hungry Planet. Via Design Info.
Fog, Water, Fire/Light, Wind, Sand. Lovely photography by Ned Kahn.
Huge panoramic of San Francisco in ruins, after the 1906 earthquake. Simon Baker describes how the image was made using a "Captive Airship" suspended from an array of kites. Via The Presurfer.
"It is likely that only 6 to 10 of the 2000 images herein will ever have a commercial or fine art life." Photographer Chase Jarvis' Hasselblad Masters. Via Tropist.
Bill Wadman has taken it upon himself "to shoot and post one portrait every day of 2007. The photo will have been taken that day, and each day will be a different person."
Eric Helin, former CP Crew member and co-Western State creator, describes a feeling of vague and regretful longing, "Wisconsin, I miss you."
"Since 2004," says artist Mickey Smith, "I have photographed bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. These publications are being replaced their online counterparts, and in many cases the printed versions are no longer bound... I do not touch, light, or manipulate the books and words - preferring to document them as found in the stacks, created by the librarian, and positioned by the last unknown reader." Via Personism.
"From founding member David Seymour to younger lights such as Martin Parr, Claudia Donaldson has chosen ten photos from each of the six decades of Magnum's life." Wallpaper celebrates photography collective Magnum's 60th BirtHDay. Via Eyebeam.
Retrievr is a Flickr Labs project that allows you to conduct a search from an image or a sketch. Here are the results I got by uploading the CP "Croix" as a jpg file and these by uploading the original gif. Try it with other images, the results can be wonderful and cool.
For Hidden Town, Gregor Graf applied removed all graphic elements from his photographic images of Linz. For more on the project see Text. Via Bezembinder's.
Sara Wight Photography, check the series, "Beyond the Horizon." Via Conscientious.
"Spiders Strategy," the photography of Osamu Kanemura. Via gmt+9 (-15).
"To create the Internet Images series, we downloaded hundreds of pornographic pictures and then selected groups of 54 that fit our theme. We then used digital processing to obscure and otherwise alter the images." Via I Heart Photograph.
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, a new book by Claire Nouvian contains 220 stunning images, many of creatures never before caught on film that seem as if a gifted Pixar animator made them up. Via Coolhunting.
Our studio looking dramatic and our officemates looking like a band, in Time Mag. Photo by Chris Strong.
Maggie Taylor's digital photography collages evoke magical childhood memories. Via Dream Tree.
Munetaka Tokuyama, a young Japanese photographer from Brooklyn redefines fashion photography. Via Luminescene.
Chinese backpage crime stories are reconstructed, staged and photographed. Via TMN.
Beautiful roadtrip and NYC photos by Alex Reisner. Via Kottke.
Dragonfly and damselfly images by Glenn Corbiere.
Inside the Digital Dump, a photo essay by Natalie Behring. Via Design Info.
East of a New Eden - Infrastructures, a photographic documentary of the new European Border. The photography of Yann Mingard. Also check the ongoing Twilight series.
After a weekend spent with some friends from Seville and Granada, I happened upon these great shots of the Alcazar and the the Alhambra over at the always interesting 360 Pixels. Nice, especially the night shots.
Food, Travel....and More Food. Check out the photo gallery.
Photographer Troy Paiva's shots of Bodie at Night.
The Muybridge Cyanotypes, posted to Flickr as a part of an effort to make more public, the public domain images in the Smithsonian. For more info, read the memo, "Dear Internet, Re: Smithsonian Images."
Industrial silhouette photographs by Alexandre Vitkine.
Embedded 360 degree QTVR of last week's Prague Marathon. Via Neatorama.
Stripper polaroids photos taken from the late 1960's thru the early 1970's. Real retro. Via gmt+9 (-15).
For her ID Series, Japanese photographer Tomoko Sawada took multiple self-portraits via a photo booth, altering her physical appearance to create more than 400 "versions" of herself. Via I Heart Photograph.
Walid Raad's work explores the representation of war and other traumatic events through film, video, and photography. Via Newsgrist.
"American Beauties," and other iconic subjects are at the center of David Levinthal's photographic works. He creates his scenery with figurines toys.
Jay Peg's four years of lomography highlights, organized by hue, on one big wall.
Over Mexico City.
Get on board with Branislav Kropilak photography, out of Barcelona. So great.
I've spent a few weeks every Christmas on Catalina Island since I was a kid, so here's a personal photoset of the moment while having to sit helplessly and repeatedly check the fire status: Catalina.
Domestic Landscapes, Bert Teunissen Photography.
Excellent and provocatively titled photoblog from Sannah Kvist. She broke my heart so I broke her face. Via A Visual Society.
Cao Fei's UN-Cosplayers photo series. Beijing residents wearing role-playing costumes. Sublime. Via Personism.
We have held a few photo contests of our own, and will likely do more of them. Kate writes to point us to Jen Bekman's, it's called Hey Hotshot, and the deadline for submissions is May 14th. Click.
The photographs of Hiroshi Watanabe.
The images on this page were taken by Jason Gulley, a glaciologist studying the hydrology of glacial caves, in Alaska and Nepal.
Friend of the Agency (FotA), Marshall Sokoloff has a photoseries and interview entitled Dreamland featured at The Morning News today. One of the photos from the series is also available as a limited-edition print through our Swap Meat.
Arin Ahnell only shoots his night photography under a full moon. It's difficult to get more than five shots in one of those four nights each month. As psychedelic, "distorted" and "worked" as they may seem, Aric says no computer editing tools are used.
Nelson Hancock's Portraits from the Edge of Europe. Fab.
Improve your photography with classical art.
Stunning photograph of the Queen taken by Annie Leibovitz.
The Ghost Cowboy features photographs of the old west. Via Headingeast.
Photographer Amy Stein's beautiful series Halloween in Harlem. Amy, please make prints available for sale immediately. Via Swissmiss.
Sean Kennedy Santos Fotographie.
Lost America gets a major update to its collection of "night photography of the abandoned West."
Sydney Harbour Bridge from the top, a full-screen 360° panorama by Peter Murphy.
The photoblog of Julien Roumagnac. Been checking in on this one for a while, and his images are always great.
German Indians by Andrea Robbins and Max Becher. Huh? Via LuckyPix.
Rehearsals for Departure, a photo story by Tim Carpenter.
Josef Hoflehner photography portfolios. Via Moon River.
Long, interesting story on the first digicam, The NC2000. Via Marshall.
Lars Bober's Verödete Landschaften photo series. [translate] "Living and work landscapes in the new Lands of the Federal Republic." Via Conscientious.
The photography of Marianne Engel. Via Another Company.
Mrs. Deane has a nice idea for a project, The Last Image Ever Made On...
"All that remains is silence, unknown circumstances, hidden motivations -chilling absence. This was my father, the subject of my indefatigable investigations." A State of Silence, personal history through objects and photos by Indre Serpytyte for Seesaw.
Justine Cooper's Saved By Science. Beautiful photography from behind the scenes at the Museum of Natural History. Via bblinks.
Laura Levine's music photos with notes, including this iconic image of Bjork.
Related. We featured Philippe Carly's rock photos for our Depth of Field project. Get ready to lose a couple hours in his archives.
A different perspective on portraiture, Montaje Exposición Carne de Identidad. Montage Exhibition, The Meat of Identity by Catalina Riutort.
The mugshot as art, Arresting Faces at Smithsonian. Via La Gatera de Beguemot.
Martin Luijendijk's Conitinuation Series, "focuses the attention on the beginning and the end of the life of buildings: construction and demolition." Via Bezembinder's.
A Visual Jouney, photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971. Via Rashomon.
Photoset of the moment: Stick Figures in Peril. Via Andy Rutledge.
"Near Union Square, two people in this truck were throwing boxes into the crowd and people were pushing each other to get one. I asked one of the pushers what was inside the boxes and he replied, "Who knows, man?!"
Naz has a lot of shoes. Via Chris Glass.
3191. "We are Stephanie and Mav. We live 3191 miles apart. We like to get up early. Mav: left. Steph: right." Via Dooce.
Artists Kourtrajm and JR spent a year in Clinchy Montfermeil, documenting its residents for The 28 Millimeters Project. Via The Skinny.
Carlo Van de Roer's Pools photo series. Via Conscientious.
"...an uncanny feel of estrangement in its depiction of an abandoned town, devoid of people, litter and personal details, like a perfect backdrop for stage sets before or after a performance." Steffi Klenz's Nonsuch. Via Archinect.
Fantastic gemstone photos by Bill Atkinson.
Pruned on "the beautiful rhyming scheme of anti-avalanche fences.'" Photographs by Lois Hechenblaikner.
If you just happen to be in Times Square today, and just happen to see this photo on the Kodak marquee, know that the photographer is my mother.
Shorpy, the 100-year-old photo blog. Heading west from there, check Ghost Cowboy. Via JK.
The Silent The Complete, modern ruins in Finland. Via Aardvarchaeology.
Sticks and Stones: Architectural America, photographs by Lee Friedlander.
"The sight offered an exceptionally varied and almost undecodable configuration. If I were an alien, I'd land here." Gábor Kerekes' Over Roswell-2/2005. (Scroll down a bit.) Via Moon River.
Good viewing for those days when I can't spend all day out shooting signage and rusty metal: Letters. Numbers. And other great Flickr sets from Leo.
Photo series of an abandoned elementary school in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Via gmt+9 (-15).
"Every Saturday, if I can, I go to my local greenmarket (at Grand Army Plaza), buy some goodies, take them home, and scan them."
Really nice underwater photography.
Zhu Yunwei's portraits.
148 vintage photos taken in and around the Uptown and Tower theaters in Kansas City. The Joseph Redmond Photo Collection. Excellent. Via gmt=9 (-15).
Great photos of Urban Ruins.
Gorgeous food photography by Lou Manna.
A handful of great storm photos.
Gorgeous photos of caves by Peter Gedei.
Outdoor Photographer has the winners to their Incredible Journey competition. Don't miss the other entries.
The VbV image above comes courtesy of Sam Javanrouh's Daily Dose of Imagery which is a fave photographic diary and a place for an occasional tip too, like how to take snow pictures.
Futurelab's Tourist Remover. Improve your travel photos, but be careful, the tourist you remove might be someone you know. Via Nag on the Lake.
Posters seen on the streets of Lille, France. Via Wooster.
The photography of Turkish film-maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Fantastic wide, horizontal images. Via Rashomon.
Photoset of the moment: Security Patterns from envelopes. Via The Style Press.
40 Under 40, photos of British architects in their offices, by Timothy Soar. Really dig Amin Taha's space. Via Things.
New York City at night, by Arnold Pouteau.
Stephane Couturier's Melting Point is a series of time-exposure photos taken in a French Toyota factory. Sublime.
"When the social elevator is broken you have to know how to bounce." Denis Darzacq's "La Chute" photo series.
Why Your Camera Does Not Matter, a great essay from Ken Rockwell. Remind yourself to read it the next time you're looking at a new toy.
The Bright Buildings of Ramenskoye, outside of Moscow. Via Designboom.
There goes the morning. Finalists have been announced for the 2007 Photobloggies.
Photoset of the moment: 163 Beach Huts. Via Things.
Franck Juery, photographer.
Inside the Notre-Dame-de-Reims cathedral, From Seb Przd's excellent set of panoramic photos, presented flat. Via Clicked.
Our man in Vancouver writes, "Fred Herzog has a photographic collection of over 80,000 shots-- most of which have never been displayed due to print technology's inability to duplicate the depth and tone of Kodachrome slide film... until now. Digital tech has allowed faithful reproductions of the artist's work, in all its glory at the VAG."
Free printable cardboard lens hoods. BB, let's try this out today.
"I'm fascinated with the idea of anonymity -and what better place to find it than in an office?" Mr. Toledano photography.
Obsessional on the 120 style Fujipet "Thunderbird" toy camera, 1957-63. Via gmt+9(-15).
China. Cuba. India. Archive. Igor Askarov.
Craig Ferroggiaro's photography site Trails of Light has some truly wonderful images, and great variety. Here, here, here, and here.
"My internal question-and-answer session leading up to this vision went something like this: 'Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?' The answer: 'You get a shining screen.'" Hiroshi Sugimoto's Theaters series. Via Spy's Spice.
Photography by Pinxit, Ambient.
The Design Disease Pool.
Stuck In Customs, a great travel photography site. Via I Like.
Some really wonderful plastic lens and homemade camera images over at Susan Burnstine's outafocus and in her portfolio. Inspiring.
Lovely photography by Todd Hido. Check out his Homes at Night series. Slightly melancholy with a sly undercurrent of creepiness.
"The city shape-shifts from gleaming steel and glass to grimy neon-lit concrete everywhere you look." Hong Kong Gotham.
Victoria, BC has a much more beautiful winter going on right now than we do around here. Photos over at Wink.
"Starting in 2007, we'll be seeing a lot more of the Earth from space." Seed Mag on Our Expanded View. Via TMN.
The photogtraphy of Nick Koudis, including "The Private Lives of Superheroes."
So you know. How to shoot infrared photography with a Digital SLR.
Philippe Chancel's DPRK photo series. A finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for 2007. Via gmt+9 (-15).
"I have nothing against cropping as a moral thing but I like playing a game within certain rules, within certain boudaries..." Short film about influential American photographer Stephen Shore. Via Conscientious.
"The scenario consisted of someone passing through a subway turnstile. At the moment that the subjects passed through the turnstile, unknown to them, I took their picture stationed at a distance of eleven feet." Bill Sullivan's More Turns.
Flickr: The My Happy Soviet Childhood photo set. Awesome. Via Plep.
"...she's zeroing in on 'the experience of disappointment amidst celebration.'" Photographer Mara Bodis Wollner's series "The All Girls School."
In the middle of an animation project for a client and we were looking for some reference images of the sun. Happened upon SOHO Realtime Sun Data, images from NASA taken on a daily basis, searchable by day and photography methods. Amazing.
Relink. Shotaro Shimomura was the President of a Japanese department store chain. On a tour of American and European cities in 1934-5, he also proved himself quite a talented photographer. An Eye for the World at the American Museum of Photography. Check Magasin du Nord of Copenhagen.
Portraits.
New in the galleries at TMN , Love Hotels.
"The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on two seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can."
"Mars Society," a photo series by Vera Hartmann. At the Mars Society Desert Research Station in Utah "six space explorers are demonstrating their training for life on Mars." Via Conscientious.
Scott Howard's sweet, huge panoramic of the most beautiful skyline in the world and some background on the making of it. Via Gapers.
"For the most part Soviet architecture and design is remembered for its heavy block buildings and functionally Spartan designs. A notable exceptions to this is in the transportation sector." 19 Soviet Era Roadside Bus Stops. Via Reluct.
Gorgeous photography by Floto + Warner Studio.
FotA Nick Campbell takes this shot of two of our pals, the one in the red shirt and the one in the tray.
Moon River on the photography of Vera Lutter. "Using room-sized cameras, Lutter often inhabits the camera during the exposure which can last hours, days or even weeks."
Above Paris by Jean Louis Cohen, now showing in TMN Galleries.
JP Trenque specializes in underwater photography.
Some lovely New Year's Eve photos, Sydney's Harbour Bridge, Barcelona's Agbar tower, Hawaii and Greaker, Norway.
"Don Hong-Oai studied with the famous 104-year-old master, Long Chin-San in Taiwan. Here he learned to work in a Chinese "pictorial" style, using several negatives to compose a picture and perfecting his landscape work." Sublime.
Bad Food Gone Worse and a wide variety of other titles from Kesselskramer.
Nikolai Cornell's Shadow and Light. 90 photographic studies of composition, proportion, light and shadow. Great bxw architectural photography in a delicious map-based interface.
Ian Baguskas' "Search for the American Landscape," a photo series. Via Conscientious.
London at night from the International Space Station. Tokyo at twilight from various upper-story windows.
Previously featured as a part of our Depth of Field series, artists Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick have created a new site for their incredible photography work. Particular favorites of ours are Scotlandfuturebog and The Apollo Prophecies, both singular panoramas which relate a complex narrative through elaborately staged, propped and costumed scenerios.
Drop Dead Gorgeous, photographs by Daniela Edburg, in the TMN Galleries.
Dave Hill Photography. Epic. Make sure to click "behind the scenes" for a ton of interesting background information.
If you're only going to submit to one category for JPG Magazine's Issue Number 9, submit to "Elegance." You might win a Jewelboxing 20pack and more importantly, the respect your photography deserves.
Emily, Celine, Mirai and Yerim and their pink things. Jeongmee Yoon.
BldgBlog on an "architecture on the edge of surreality," by photographer Frank van der Salm.
Mario Klingemann's Flickeur retrieves images from Flickr and creates an "infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip." It's all completely random. Via Ashley B.
"A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles" by John Humble at Jan Kesner Gallery. Great. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Sweet photoset of the space shuttle Discovery night launch. Via Paperholic.
Julie Blackmon's photo series, "Domestic Vacations" tells the truth. Via Netdiver.
Hans van der Meer's splendid series, European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football.
Absolut Lomo, a nice participatory promo that includes a ton of interesting photos in a fun-to-browse interface.
Hangin' out in Dayton, Nevada in the late '70s "The following photographs were found in a photo album that we purchased at the legendary Golden West Swap Meet in wonderful Huntington Beach, CA." Via PCL.
So you know. How to take infrared photos with your digital camera.
I have seen the future of magazines and its name is JPG. Issue 7 arrived in yesterday's mail and it's a real thing of beauty. Highly recommended.
Jeffrey Milstein's 'Aircraft' series. Simple. Brilliant. More from Mr. Abb at gmt+9 (-15).
Lenticulations are animated 3D multiple lens photographs. Via A Whole.
"Making a photograph is in itself a socially aware gesture. It is the depth of that gesture that I get excited about." Conscientious talks with Todd Deutsch about his series, Gamers and Family Days.
Paris by night. Wow. Via Neatorama.
Picture China. Just fabulous.
Taking 360° panoramas and then projecting them so that the end result looks like a wee planet. These look fantastic as in "wonderful or superb; remarkable." Via Wilson.
This photo series by Ken Rosenthal is "at once true and fictitious, remembered and reconstructed, seen and not seen." Via Exclamation Mark.
Busy airport composite photo. Nice. Via Kottke.
Kristopher Grenert's series of backlit photos, Viaduct(s), at the Lumen Gallery. More at the his site, "I use lines, atmosphere, movement and light to capture the essence of my subject matter."
"A happy traipse through England's most excellent cemeteries with a lumpy Kodak."
Some interesting panoramas from the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. Via Dezain.
A Life in Pictures, "A sequence of photobooth photos documenting the life of one woman over the course of ten years or so from the early 50s through the early 60s." Try to not write her life story in your head. Impossible.
Matthew David Powell's great photoblog from New York. Especially good photos of people.
Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour at the V&A. "This exhibition focuses on eight contemporary artists whose photography and installations are made at, or suggest, the fleeting state of the world at dusk."
Element Insites / Los Angeles, CA. The portfolio of Zach Schrock. So sweet.
A six-year project, shot in Russia and Ukraine, Michal Chelbin's "Circus of the Strangely Familiar" and other photographic series. Via Our Man in Vancouver.
The Making of a Christmas Card. Via Chris Glass.
"The idea is to create a collection of 100 different views from individuals around the world." The View From Your Window.
Michael Hughes' Souvenirs are photo of photos held in just exactly the right place. Via 30gms, who reminds us that "Trompe L'Oeil is not a place in Paris."
"A past world recorded with affectionate participation." The Eugenio Goglio photographic collection documents life in Northern Italy in the years between 1890-1926. Thanks Anna.
Staring straight up. NYC photography by Dave Martinidez.
"This exhibition focuses on eight contemporary artists whose photography and installations are made at, or suggest, the fleeting state of the world at dusk." Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour.
François Brunelle's I'm not a look-a-like photo project. Via HaHa.
Marshall writes, "Unbelievable photography of the aftermath of Katrina. All using HDR (high dynamic range) techniques that give the work an otherworldly illustrative look." Dan Burkholder's Shadows of LIves and Loss at the Vancouver Gallery of Photography. More of the work here.
"When the presence of a doorbell isn't enough and instructions are deemed necessary." Photoset of the moment: Dave Gorman's Doorbell Instructions. Via 30gms.
Some things are worth a closer look.
360° panoramic photos of dozens of Japanese locations at night. Fab. The Night Views of Seto. For example, Imabari.
Amos Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia, 2004 by Mitch Epstein. From "Ecotopia," the current exhibition at the International Center of Photography.
A peek at how the other half lives. The Black and White Pictures from the Society Exhibition by Dafydd Jones. Via Things.
Architectural Decay, Interiors, from the photography portfolio of Sean M. L. Galbraith. Thanks Coop.
The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism and aims to collect pictures of every Polling Place in America on Election Day, November 7th.
Michael Hughes' book project in the works: Souvenirs. Brilliant.
Haiko Hebig's self-portrait. Sweet.
Lots of great Halloween costume photos over at the Snapatorium blog.
David Maisel's Oblivion series and an illuminating interview with the photographer at Archinect, conducted by Geoff Manaugh.
A stunning image of Siena and one of Florence over at the always fabulous Daily Dose of Imagery.
The photography of Ellen Kooi who "works in the manner of a film director, making preliminary sketches, designing the location and lighting, and positioning her human subjects." Via gmt+9 (-15).
There are always some really nice recent finds over at bighappyfunhouse.
Nice portfolio site from Brad Harris, and the mouseless nav feels just right for his images.
Impactist is well known for their motion graphics but check out their photography portfolio. Awesome. BTW, we interviewed Daniel for the first Jewelboxing case study and the most recent one was published last week, featuring Big Star NYC.
"Unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts. It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject." Sascha Pohflepp's Blind Camera. Check the video. Via El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios. Yum.
1,300 different antique Photochrom images of the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
The photography of Thomas Weinberger. Cold. Austere.
Brian Lesteberg, "My photographs are witness to this ritual and its place in the layered order of the natural world." Beautiful.
Dulce Pinzón's "The Real Story of the Superheroes." Via 1+1=1.
"My first scanner camera was made from lots of duct tape, a cardboard box, and the cheapest flatbed scanner that I could find. I expected this to be a quick little art project, one that would take a week or two at the most. But when I got my first homemade digital camera to work, I noticed that some wonderful things were beginning to happen." Via Inman.
Kids with Cameras.
"Using specialist techniques, thousands of portraits of individual people have been compacted to provide a representative male and female "look" for the 160,000 residents of Sydney." Via Infosthetics.
Peter Garfield's photo series of falling houses were made by shooting, um, houses falling.
Noted photographer Alec Soth has launched a personal weblog. Bookmark this one. Via Swissmiss.
The cinematic, photographic, enigmatic art of Gregory Crewdson and an interview with the artist at Kultureflash.
Nice stuff at Messy pics. Here are a few.
100 years after George Lawrence's panoramic photographs of the San Francisco Bay, the Lawrence Panoramic Camera Project tries to repeat his work.
Gosu is Jason Strachan's daily photoblog from Cape Town, South Africa.
Typolover and RGB-Mix Playground from Michael Levy. Lots of great photos, including visits to Chicago and to the Lebedev Studio in Moscow. Via cpluv.
"Lenticular clouds and many other strange kind of clouds." Via JK.
Astronaut Anousheh Ansari's Flickr page. Via Cynical-C.
In a wind tunnel. Via Mefi.
The 2006 winners of the Small World photomicrography competition. Wow. Via 30gms.
All the Life Magazine covers shot by Alfred Eisenstaedt sorted by decade.
A Brief Essay on Love. Via Exclamation Mark.
Alisdair MacDonald's Gridlock on the River Thames.
"We love the web but you can't put it in your pocket." Introducing Moo. From Colin.
Super-wide summit panoramas by Jack Brauer.
Some people take photos of their family and friends. Others are more artistic and take snaps of fine architecture or scenic landscapes. And a select few take daily photos of their toothpaste.
Nominess from the International Color Awards in the advertising photography category. Old news but a great set.
London is a big city. But to some, it seems much bigger.
"Another photo taken from a moving car on the road from France to Italy." Ho-hum, Sam sure makes it sound easy.
Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches.
Kings of Africa, an amazing photo series by Daniel Lainé depicting "70 soverains, descendants of the great African dynasties." Via cpluv.
Suburban Desert at Polar Inertia. "A portrait of the process of development that is quickly overtaking the desert peripheries of Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver, and Los Angeles." From Andrew.
"Water has a resonance with memory." The photography of Christiane Zschommler. Via Ralf.
FotA, photographer Brian Ulrich has been shortlisted out of thousands on entries by The Guardian and the Saatchi Galleries in the Your Gallery competition. Take a minute and vote please.
Downtown cats in downtown alleys.
Lileks updates his annotated Fargo 1950 chronicles.
LuckyOliver is a community of photographers, designers and artists who buy and sell photos.
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." The story of Robert Capa, photographer at D-Day.
The Ratcliffe Power Station in Nottinghamshire, England, photographed by Michael Kenna for a limited-edition book. Via BldgBlog.
A great primer on The Wonderful World of Early Photography.
Sweet photoset, apparently from
under Russian streets.
Photography of rural China. Via Plep.
Beautiful Pinhole pictures from photographer Bethany de Forest.
From Accordions to Zeppelins and everything in-between. Postcardman to the rescue.
Presenting the winners from File Magazine's Toy Camera Contest.
5 Steps To Being More Photogenic. Via Swissmiss.
The brilliant unsettling photography of Lovisa Ringborg. Via Transbuddha.
Great photos of things destroyed at high speeds. Via BoN.
Most people will tell you that they go on vacation to relax. They're lying. It's because you can stay in a hotel and jump on their beds. You aren't allowed to do that at home. Hotel Bed Jumping HQ.
When Photoshop falls into the wrong hands, Oprah becomes Ann-Margret and cigarettes get removed: Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law.
Industrial and Industrial Heritage Photography. Via Things.
In 1965, 23-year-old photographer Danny Lyon joined the Outlaw Motorcycle Club in Chicago. He took pictures. Via Lackey.
Photos taken from the Z Backscatter X-Ray machine.
This set of beautiful bxw shots is a preview of David Plowden's elegiac book A Handful of Dust. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Kirk of Smallest Photo writes, "Stumbled across this photoset. 700+ shots of the exact same spot in Lake George, taken from 2002 to present day."
Great work from photographer Kai-Uwe Gundlach. Sort of a clunky portfolio though, hit the 'close' box and then explore 'categories.'
The Smithsonian Photography Initiative puts you in control with a clever tool for accessing and sequencing the collection.
The photography of Erik Petersens Besættelse. Denmark 1940-45. Via Plep.
Kim Joon's elegant "Duet Series" maps intricate designs onto entwined bodies.
The photography of M. O. Hammond [1876-1934], especially this one, of the Flatiron Building. Via gmt+9.
Les photos de François-Marie Banier. Via C'est intéressant.
Martin Liebscher's Suntory Hall, Tokyo and the Philharmonie series. There goes the afternoon.
Stunning aerial photos taken by Jason Hawkes.
Accidental Mysteries, extraordinary vernacular photographs. Sweet. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Peter Turnley's photo essay, Parisians. Via Plep.
Shipwrecks of the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands. Via Cynical-C.
"Sitting in China, an exhibition and installation project comprising 60 photographs and 40 bastard chairs."
Chapter Five: "A Rude Awakening." From the Pulp Pix series at the American Museum of Photography.
How the camera learned to lie.
Nate Steiner on how to set up an in-house product photography studio on the cheap. Good advice.
A really big photo. "The developing process took five hours. About 70 volunteers pumped 600 gallons of developer and 1,200 gallons of fixer onto the fabric through garden hoses." Via Adland.
Rocky Schenck's photos are "like buried memories you can't quite recall but continue to obsess over." Via Conscientious.
"There are certain moments in our history that define an entire era, and there are key photographs which captured those moments." Defining Moments at Picture History.
Scott Stulberg's Southeast Asia Photography.
"No longer are we confined to the rectangular image captured by cameras. Panoramic photography is, in effect, a step closer to viewing images the way humans see the world." Jeffrey Martin's Panoptic Pictures. Jeffrey is out of Prague, which seems to be a place at the forefront of these QTVRs. As evidence, check Prague 360.
The strange phenomenon that, mysteriously, always seems to occur around the first of each month: Stray Couches. Conspiracy theories abound!
Winner and Nominees of The Color Awards.
"For over four years, I have developed a photographic documentary work on Swiss fortified constructions - bunkers." From the new Polar Inertia.
Macro pinball photography. Via Joey.
Cedric Delsaux's Star Wars in Paris photos. Via c-c.
Some great photographs in The Canary Project.
"600 square inch negative I made on Saturday." A post on the Analog Photography Users Group. Lots to explore there. Via Consumptive.
Strobist tutorial on a DIY$10 macro photo studio. Sound advice. Ours cost a couple hundred bucks but has been well worth the investment. BB used it for this shot promoting this and tons more client stuff too. Via AWLN.
The architectural photography of Ezra Stoller (1915-2004) and a great, cranky '92 interview with him on rights, royalties, and his work. "I deliver what I've shot. I pre-edit my work before I shoot it. I don't shoot any surplus stuff, which made it very difficult at times."
"I've always dreamed of landscapes." the surreal photography of Al Magnus.
Japan, at night: Neon Sight Japan.
Kevin Tiell, Pinball Photographer.
A collection of photos of the new Chinese train to Tibet.
"A story and journey to MicroWorld. A strange and mysterious planet where the normal laws of science do not always apply."
"In the very moment of taking a portrait I try to find a secret agreement with that person, in the absence of every language, and I want to figure out an authentic moment of intensity and concentration." The photography of Ingar Krauss, an interview and gallery. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Thinking about our latest film project and came across some lovely images here.
Urbanized.
The photography of Michael Neuhaus, Pixelprojekt Ruhrgebiet. Via Conscientious.
Ongoing photo collection of the swamped or sunken boats of Amsterdam. Via Cynical-C.
Three decades of celebrity photos, mostly for "Paris-Match," by Claude Azoulay. I. II. III.
Polanoid updates.
Hamid Sardar's Reindeer People of Mongolia. Via Cynical-C.
"Hi Irv, I don't know what you were thinking here dude!" Famous photographers receive some advice in a photo forum.
George Eastman House László Moholy-Nagy Series, 78 photographs and 1 crayon drawing, 1918-1946.
The AMNH Series, spectacular set of photos by Joe Holmes, made at the American Museum of Natural History. Via Subtraction.
Under the I-5 overpass. Discovery Park, Sacramento. At Beerzie's Everyday Things Scene.
"During spring in Denmark, at approximately one half an hour before sunset, flocks of more than a million European starlings (sturnus vulgaris) gather from all corners to join in the incredible formations." Earth Science Picture of the Day.
The always noteworthy food and photoblog Nordljus has photos of other things, as well.
"It's simple, really. People look foolish when posing for a picture. So tell your loved ones you would like to take their photo... then secretly videotape them the whole time." Long Awkward Pose.
The Photographer's Shadow. Lovely. Via 30gms.
Fotologue of the moment, The Bitter* Girls.
Still on this tiny camera kick: The History and Evolution of Spy and Investigative Photography.
Portraits by Stephanie Chernikowski.
With parents cleaning out an overstuffed attic, I've been receiving lots of interesting packages. Yesterday, they sent me a Universal Minute 16 camera. Here's some other great material, including ads and instruction manuals.
Get out your toy camera. File Mag Contest ends Wednesday.
Overshadowed, images by Keith Kin Yan, Hong Kong - NYC. Great archives, especially the cnthk and available series.
I thought by now we'd have seen every possible flash image gallery technique. I was wrong. Michael Muller Photography.
Open Source Photo members get it.
"A whiskey-soaked fever-dream written in high-test, burnt rubber, and twisted steel! A non-stop thrill ride across the cracked asphalt of the American dream! Okay, it's really a bunch of photos of people and cars and the open road."
Artemii Lebedev's Trip to North Korea. Via Torrez.
"This photograph is the result of digitally averaging every Playboy centerfold from the last 10 years."
Random find: Historic Photos of Newburys, MA. Love this one.
The machine age in Germany in decline and well before that.
Weekly Shot - A photo challenge with impressive results. Via Intensify.
"The most important moment in the photographic process is when I see the prey! In that moment I feel as if it were tickling me, and it's deeply gratifying. I usually laugh after the good pictures." Check the photography of Gabriella Cseh and then these joyful introductory notes by Noémi Kiss. Via gmt+9 (-15).
Photoset of the moment: Photographing Squirrels.
The photography of John Davies. Don't miss the Hammersmith Flyover and The British Landscape series. Thanks Tim.
100 x 100. Michael Wolf's photographs of residents in their flats in Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate. Via BLYGAD.
Cameratruck.
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