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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 couple of the photos (the last one in particular) look fake, but cool nonetheless. (via quipsologies)
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)
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 is an interesting form of photographic sculpture. (via daily awesome)
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)
Unforgettable photos, some of the most striking and disturbing photographs ever taken.
Speed Demon Photography, some entries in a photo contest depicting speed. The rollercoaster picture is awesome.
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 pond. Nice abstract photo.
Vincent Laforet talks about a sports photo series he did using the tilt-shift technique.
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. More iconic Magnum photos at Wallpaper.
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 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 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.”
Photo of Deadwood, South Dakota from 1888. Doesn’t look so rambunctious from that angle.
Photo gallery of heavy metal bands from the early 80s. These aren’t glossy magazine photos…they’re snapshots from the crowd, backstage, and at the afterparties.
No matter how many times I see the photos, the proximity of the runway to the beach at the St. Maarten airport amazes me. (via gulfstream)
The first photo of Earth from space was taken by a V-2 missile in 1946. Large panoramic shot of a 1948 photo is here.
Clever technique for pinching the colors from famous paintings using the Match Color tool in Photoshop. “The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?”
Noah Kalina is selling signed and numbered prints of individual frames of his seminal everyday movie.
Photographs of novelist Will Self’s writing room, seemingly wallpapered by Post-Its. (via moon river)
I’ve had this photo up in my browser for a few hours now and every so often, I’ll sneak away from what I’m doing and take a peek at it. I love the feeling of motion and its capture: the boy and the pigeon captured by the camera, the pigeon’s shadow captured by the sidewalk, the momentum of an unseen car captured by the now-bent steel of the firebox.
A pair of NYC photographs from Shorpy today: Penn Station in 1910 and a scene from outside Grand Central Terminal in 1908.
Jake’s featuring a photo today of some NYC street art by Bloke, who does paper-plane pieces. I’m a sucker for dashed lines.
Update: More stuff by Bloke here. (thx, daniel)
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