In 1967,
Charlie Haughey was drafted into the United States Army and was assigned to work as a photographer, tasked with taking morale-boosting pictures of service members. He shot over 2,000 images, the vast majority of which were never published and languished in boxes and envelopes.
Until now. [more inside]
posted by gkhan
on Mar 25, 2013 -
43 comments
Forward by Messe Kopp is a clever one shot video filmed then reversed to a very neat effect.
[via]
posted by quin
on Mar 20, 2013 -
17 comments
PhotosNormandie is a collaborative collection of more than 3,000
royalty-free photos from World War II's Battle of Normandy and its aftermath. (Photos date from June 6 to late August 1944). The main link goes to the photostream. You can also peruse
sets, which include 2700+ images from the
US and
Canadian National Archives.
posted by zarq
on Mar 19, 2013 -
12 comments
Wilder Mann - photos of traditional animal costumes of Europe, by
Charles Freger. Also in
National Geographic, and in the New York Times'
Lens Blog:
“These traditions come from Neolithic times — from shamanism — and they have never stopped,” said Mr. Fréger, 38. “For a few nights you can behave like a goat, drink a lot and forget about being civilized. You can be a wild animal for three days and then you go back to controlling your wildness.”
posted by moonmilk
on Mar 18, 2013 -
29 comments
In 2003, Abercrombie and Fitch approached Slovene philosopher and culture critic Slavoj Žižek to write ad copy.
The results were odd. (And NSFW.)
posted by Rinku
on Mar 17, 2013 -
66 comments
I feel creatively emboldened to personally say something on the subjects that I am documenting. In terms of how it is produced, intellectually I am more excited than I have been in years. I am envisioning so many more possibilities for the work ... I feel for first time empowered on my own terms. We are calling our own shots and have created somewhat of our own institution.
An
interview with the six-woman Middle Eastern documentary photography collective
Rawiya, whose name means "female narrator" in Arabic.
[more inside]
posted by nangar
on Mar 13, 2013 -
2 comments
"
FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic archives. In honor of our 125th anniversary, we are showcasing photographs that reveal cultures and moments of the past. Many of these photos have never been published and are rarely seen by the public."
posted by chunking express
on Mar 11, 2013 -
15 comments
A box of magic lantern slides, owned by a doctor who died in 1940, turned out to hold many images of the Romany Travellers who came to Sussex each year to take part in the
hop harvest. The pictures have been published, with commentary by the Romany historian Janet Keet-Black, in the pamphlet
Hidden Photographs of a Hidden People (
PDF of full pamphlet). You can also watch a
slideshow which includes more images and interviews with Keet-Black, magic lantern expert Peter Gillies and the Romany Traveller Penfold sisters.
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posted by daisyk
on Mar 10, 2013 -
7 comments
"Artists often cling to control of their work and the context of its display, but to interact with Tumblr, they must give up that control. Art on Tumblr might get seen by many people, but 1,000 reblogs doesn’t mean anyone will be looking at your art next week, know that you made it, or be having a critical discussion. Given these reasons, it would make sense for artists to be wary of putting their work on Tumblr. But this isn’t always the case; a younger, more internet-savvy generation has embraced the web 2.0, feeling that the costs outweigh the benefits." --
Ben Valentine looks at Tumblr as art, in the opening essay of
the world's first Tumblr art symposium, which can be followed
on livestream.
[more inside]
posted by MartinWisse
on Mar 9, 2013 -
30 comments
Nicholas Victor Artamonoff was a talented Russian amateur photographer who lived, studied and worked in Istanbul from the 1920s to the 1940s. He took many photos, mainly black-and-white, of architecture, archaeology, and street scenes, in Istanbul and also elsewhere in Turkey. A collection of images has now been made available by the Dumbarton Oaks Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives.
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posted by carter
on Mar 7, 2013 -
3 comments
The Englishman and the eel is a
photo essay of 93 images
(thumbnails here; 2 pages) and
article by London photographer Stuart Freedman that "attempts to look at (amongst other things) the significance and the decline of the eel and its fading from the changing London consciousness" with snapshots of "those palaces of Cockney culture, the Pie and Mash shops."
[more inside]
posted by taz
on Feb 24, 2013 -
30 comments
