A really small car from 1924. “The license
A really small car from 1924. “The license plate is almost as large as her automobile, but Miss Mary Bay likes her car because it is easy to park.”
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Legendary party Misshapes was held for the
Legendary party Misshapes was held for the last time on Saturday night in NYC, its overness punctuated by an article in the NY Times on the party’s conclusion. My own personal overness was punctuated by not knowing about the end of Misshapes until I read it in the Times. A Mr. Cobrasnake has photos of the final night.
Aw, man…Eliot is ceasing publication on
Aw, man…Eliot is ceasing publication on slower.net, one of my favorite photoblogs. Ended on a great note though.
Nice black and white photo of the
Nice black and white photo of the Lava Lands in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument.
These half-n-half celebrity face mashups are unsettling. “
These half-n-half celebrity face mashups are unsettling. “The right half of a face has to be from one celebrity and the left half from another.” The Bill/Hillary and the Cruise/Holmes ones are especially good.
Filmmaker Errol Morris is writing a blog
Filmmaker Errol Morris is writing a blog for the NY Times about photography. It’s supposed to be Times Select only and therefore behind the Times’ stupid paywall, but I can get to it just fine for some reason. His most recent post concerns the confusion over the identity of the hooded man in the iconic Abu Ghraib photograph, which topic Morris is researching for S.O.P.: Standard Operating Procedure, his upcoming film about the prison and the events that happened there.
A handy chart comparing various film sizes.
A handy chart comparing various film sizes. Large format 4x5 film contains 15 times the information as 35mm film. Even Canon’s new $8000, 21 megapixel, professional-grade digital camera still has a 35mm-sized sensor. (thx, jake)
Update: Jason sends this note along via email: “If you’re curious about digital vs. film resolution comparisons (which can get complicated), here are two links that might be of interest”: Understanding image sharpness and 4x5” Drum Scanned Film vs. 39 Megapixel Digital. Christian emailed a link to Film is digital and digital is analog.
Ellen Ugelstad’s photo series depicting people and
Ellen Ugelstad’s photo series depicting people and their shoes. The midsections? They are not needed.
Photos of a 7-11 set up as
Photos of a 7-11 set up as a Kwik-E-Mart to promote the Simpsons Movie. (thx, jon)
“In September 2006, a group of African American
“In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a ‘whites only’ shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn’t sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn’t care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree.” Read more about the Jena 6 at While Seated and BBC News.
Peter Kaplan takes photographs from great heights,
Peter Kaplan takes photographs from great heights, sometimes even putting his camera on top of a 42-foot pole to get the right shot. A slideshow of some of his work includes several shots of iconic NYC buildings from unusual angles.
Paris Hilton released from jail
Early this morning, Paris Hilton was released from jail after serving a 23-day sentence for violating her probation on a prior conviction for reckless driving. Here’s a photo taken soon after her release:
We see photos of celebrities smiling in public all the time, at movie openings, at awards shows, on stage, on TV, on red carpets…anywhere there’s a camera waiting to capture a public image. Hilton in particular is known for smiling in public, chin down and looking up to the right. But the above photo is the first time she’s ever looked genuinely happy, an authentic smile. Never have all those smiling celebrity photos — and the purposes behind them — looked so phony.
A hi-res photo from 1910 of the Flatiron
A hi-res photo from 1910 of the Flatiron Building in NYC. Still a lot of horse and trolley traffic in those days. (via NYC Snapshot)
Manufactured Landscapes is a documentary about Edward
Manufactured Landscapes is a documentary about Edward Burtynsky and the photos that he’s taken in China of the Three Gorges Dam, factories, and other vast industrial projects. Trailer is here and it’s available on DVD at Amazon. (thx, scott)
Update: Manufactured Landscapes is playing in NYC at Film Forum starting tonight through July 3.
Photographs of very complex highway intersections. A
Photographs of very complex highway intersections. A couple of the photos (the last one in particular) look fake, but cool nonetheless. (via quipsologies)
Oliver Herring’s photo sculptures. Reminds me of
Oliver Herring’s photo sculptures. Reminds me of David Meanix’s work for Six Feet Under (if you remember Claire’s photo masks in season 4). (via moon river)
Tim Knowles
I just stumbled upon the work of Tim Knowles, whose art explores the mostly hidden, obscured, or otherwise unnoticed motion of objects. One of his projects is Tree Drawings:
Drawings produced by pens attached to the tips of tree branches, as the branches move in the wind the tree draws on to a panel or drawing board on an easel. Like signatures the trees drawings tell of the tree’s character; a Hawthorn producing a stiff, scratchy & spikey drawing an Oak a more elegant flowing line.
Here’s the oak at its easel and the resulting art:
For Vehicle Motion Drawings, he constructed an apparatus to capture the motion of a car being driven…the turns, stops, and starts of the vehicle move the pen over the paper. His postal projects capture the motion of packages through the postal system, both with drawings and photography. (Knowles’ Spy Box reminds me of Kyle Van Horn’s cameramail.)
Love his stuff. (via waxy)
Martin Klimas’ captured moments of shattering statues
Martin Klimas’ captured moments of shattering statues is an interesting form of photographic sculpture. (via daily awesome)
Opening Friday, June 22 at jen bekman gallery
Opening Friday, June 22 at jen bekman gallery in NYC: A New American Portrait, “a group exhibition of photographs featuring artists at the vanguard of contemporary portraiture in America”. Curated by Jen Bekman and Joerg Colberg, one of my favorite bloggers on the topic of photography.
Another gallery of photos from Magnum’s 60-year anniversary. (thx, mark)
Another gallery of photos from Magnum’s 60-year anniversary. (thx, mark)
Unforgettable photos, some of the most striking
Unforgettable photos, some of the most striking and disturbing photographs ever taken.
Speed Demon Photography, some entries in a
Speed Demon Photography, some entries in a photo contest depicting speed. The rollercoaster picture is awesome.
The Life Project is a series of
The Life Project is a series of photographs that, from photographer’s Frans Lanting’s perspective, that are a journey through time, from the formation of the universe to the present time. Also available in book form.
Aerial photo of a pulp mill aeration
Aerial photo of a pulp mill aeration pond. Nice abstract photo.
Vincent Laforet talks about a sports photo
Vincent Laforet talks about a sports photo series he did using the tilt-shift technique.
Photos of people from around the world
Photos of people from around the world and the food that they eat during the course of a week.
Photos from the first 60 years of Magnum.
Photos from the first 60 years of Magnum. More iconic Magnum photos at Wallpaper.
Gary Parker’s fantastic photos of little people
Gary Parker’s fantastic photos of little people of all shapes and sizes. Tiny Kenadie Jourdin is just about the cutest kid ever. Here’s some more info about Kenadie, who has been diagnosed with primordial dwarfism and “isn’t expected to grow past about 30 inches or weigh more than 8 pounds”. (via cyn-c)
Update: For some reason, the links to Gary Parker’s site are being redirected back to kottke.org…not my doing. Copying and pasting the links work just fine. (thx, julisa)
Video segment of photographer Garry Winogrand talking
Video segment of photographer Garry Winogrand talking about how he works from a Bill Moyers show in 1982. Here’s a transcript of the video. “Photographing something changes it.”
Curious story of what’s up with JPG
Curious story of what’s up with JPG Magazine, a photography mag founded by Heather Champ and Derek Powazek. Derek formed a new company (8020 Publishing) with a friend (Paul Cloutier) and that company bought JPG. Then, says Derek, “Paul informed me that we were inventing a new story about how JPG came to be that was all about 8020. He told me not to speak of that walk in Buena Vista, my wife, or anything that came before 8020.” The founding and the first 6 issues of JPG were removed from the site and Derek left his company. More from Heather and on MetaFilter, including this nice sentiment: “The great thing about a labour of love is the love, not the labour.”
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