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Bringing Nails to Life

netbros — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:53:21 -0800

Scenes sculpted with nails by Czech photographer Vlad Artazov. (via)

A World in a Drop of Water

Orb — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:04:18 -0800

Microworld by Licht. More of Paul's macro droplet shots can be seen at his Flickr gallery and others' macro droplet shots in the Refractions in Liquid Drops group pool.

The Selby

OmieWise — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:25:03 -0800

The Selby Artists & c. at home and in their studios. Click through for more pictures.

History of War and Peace Collection

Rumple — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:03:01 -0800

Peace and War in the 20th Century is an ambitious, in progress, massive assemblage of posters, photographs, propaganda, ephemera, letters, diaries, paintings, sketches, stories, letters, music and related items, from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. The collection is international in scope. Some of the nodes lack content, and the navigation is a little confusing, so the jump I list some of my favourite case studies from their site. Note: Many of the images are reasonable resolution if you right click and open in a new tab rather than only view in the pop-forward window. Also scroll down for thumbnails of additional material. The advanced search option is very useful as it includes a detailed site map. Representing War: Posters, Art and Music. Many of the posters are unusual and new to me, such as 'Save Waste Bones - They Make Glue for Aircraft', 'Boys, Come Along, You're Wanted', and this beautiful poster of the Earth and Doves. Concentration Camp correspondence Sir Norman Angell: a lifelong proponent of peace (many images of his pamphlets and posters) The Spanish Civil War: Foreign Intervention, American Reaction. Includes evocative pamphlets, leaflets, and posters. Waging War London prepares for World War II: a great selection of instructional and civil defence materials such as posters and memos. Britain prepares for World War I: some diary pages of Adrian Duff. William Frank Kenwood, Canadian Pilot and Prisoner of War, including newspaper clippings, a letter from the Red Cross, telegrams, etc. Vera Brittain's diaries and pamphlets Canadian Women's Roles in World War I: anything new in war work? Mapping and Photographing World War I: interesting instructional materials, etc. The Nuclear Disarmament Movement, which includes a great collection of very striking posters and leaflets. Evolving Technology in World War I, which includes numerous artistic visions of machine guns, tanks, etc. War Resisters, including pamphlets. World War 1 in the Middle East I like this typed report of a raid. I also like this leaflet against War Toys. As I noted, there is a huge amount of great stuff at this site, interspersed with some dead ends as one would expect from a work in progress.

visual connections

nickyskye — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:48:24 -0800

Pattern Recognition, mostly serene paintings, illustrations and photographs from a variety of sources, grouped according to similar motifs: Interiors in paintings and more l moon l napes l light and shadow l moments of quiet intimacy, daydreams, dreams l very early Vogue and Vanity Fair covers 1, 2 and 3 l portraits of children and more l children's book illustrations l flora. Portraits of women l Islamic world l monkeys l females and cats l mostly British l Mary l twinning l night. The archive of the blog with a rich selection of images.

Sleeping, dead, alone

klangklangston — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:38:53 -0800

Elizabeth Heyert struggles to remove the photographer from portraiture, moving contra Richard Avedon. Three series: Sleepers (interview), Travelers (interview), Narcissists [NSFWish] (essay).

natural beauty

nickyskye — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:27:37 -0800

The People of the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, use their faces and bodies as canvases, using natural elements at hand in an especially beautiful, natural fashion show. These photographs [flash] were taken by Hans Silvester, a German photographer who spent 10 months in the Omo Valley. Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa An unprecedented series of images showing the Omo people's imaginative body decoration and embellishments. Also by Hans Silvester, Cats in Love and Cats in the Sun About the Omo people. People of region along the Omo river.

Kumeyaay Information Village

netbros — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:06:02 -0800

Kumeyaay.info welcomes visitors and indigenous peoples of all tribal nations and provides a casual village environment to share and network their culturally relevant creative work, information and opinions. (previously)

College Photographers of the Year 2007

Rumple — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:05:50 -0800

College Photographers of the Year, 2007, and archive of past winners, 2001-2006.

What are you looking at?

klangklangston — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:16:01 -0800

What makes a great portrait?

This Dying City

Jazznoisehere — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:52:28 -0800

Cleveland is dying, and it is beautiful. A collection of stark photographs of Cleveland as it is dying before our very eyes.

Desert Sands Reclaim a Ghost Town

jonson — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:09:24 -0800

Kolmanskop, a ghost town buried in the sand

eclectic galleries

nickyskye — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:00:51 -0800

artjob.ru is a Russian site worth exploring with some pretty awesome, eclectic galleries (some nsfw). Naoto Hattori, 134 paintings of surrealistic Mona Lisas transformed and more l Child Soldiers Dream Simply of Being Children ads for Amnesty International/photographs by Michael Lewis l Christian Lohfink's playfully mischievous and dark humor photographs l Elliott Erwitt's superb black and white photographs, many iconic l Some lovely Russia in the snow photographs by Mikhail Tkachev. Innovative advertising images by Paolo Franco. Photographs of naked dancers by Bryon Paul Mccartney Sexy surreal paintings by Roland Hayder

Ripeness is All: Lustmord Portrayed in Oil

WCityMike — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:48:34 -0800

New York artist Ashley Hope's Ripeness is All exhibit at the Tilton Gallery recreates crime scene photographs of murdered women from the 1910s through the 1990s as oil paintings on huge 4' x 6' canvasses. [some nsfw art] Hope states that her goal is the "re-subjectification of a scene that had been totally objectified by the forensic camera." She chooses the crime scenes of "Lustmord" (or "lust murders") — "these incomprehensible crimes are more sublime; they exemplify a reality that betrays our expectations, a reality that so often takes us outside of our understanding." ArtDaily.com, who made Hope their Nov. 2007 featured artist, comments: "Man is valued for his interior qualities ... woman is valued for her exterior attributes ... Hope's work — images of women reduced to a body — underscores this dichotomy, thus challenging these reductive tendencies."

"Teenage Stories."

Soup — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:32:01 -0800

"Teenage Stories." Award-winning photography by Julia Fullerton-Batten (flash). With in ter views (pdf).

vintage ephemera

nickyskye — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:15:48 -0800

Vintage Images l Vintage Ephemera l Gallery of Geishas: Art eZine has some interesting visuals, great collection of resources and links to all kinds of cool collages using a variety of vintage ephemera, like Junkyard Dolls or All Wired Up. Previously.

formal and contemporary

nickyskye — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:39:27 -0800

The Young Gallery has an exceptional collection of photographs by both renowned and recently discovered photographers. The feast of visuals includes elegantly haunting images of African wildlife by Nick Brandt, Night Views of cities by Floriane de Lassée, salad vegetables by Viktor Polson, nudes and portraits by Patrick Demarchelier and images of Tibet, Mongolians and Tibetans by Richard Gere.

Unnatural Landscapes

jonson — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:11:16 -0800

Photographer Kim Keever takes incredible, otherwordly nature shots using a unique technique: she builds the subject by hand in a 100 gallon fishtank. Other galleries of her work here & here. Via, which was via.

Sunday fun

nickyskye — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:35:26 -0800

Sunday sillibiz: Snackimals, really fancy fashions for dogs, RubikCubism, hairstyle names from 1970s Ebony ad, burquas for men, fetish dollies [nsfw], Art Car Museum, the hideaway cosy, baby tiger cub sleeps and plays. [via]

Photographs by The Polaroid Kid

StopMakingSense — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:50:22 -0800

Ridin' Dirty Face - photos by Mike Brodie in color, black & white and some polaroids.
Also, check out the The Polaroid Photography Collective.

Nice pictures

dobbs — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:11:47 -0800

Photos by Ken Rosenthal. {via Apartment Therapy}

Utopian Modernism In London

jack_mo — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:47:19 -0800

Utopian Modernism In London: A Series Of Drifts... is a tour of modernist landmarks, tying architectural practice to politics and movements in art. Author Owen Hatherley also keeps a weblog chiefly concerned with art and utopianism in Weimar Germany and the early Soviet Union. Photographer Ludwig Abache's site contains more architectural imagery, from London and beyond. (via newthings)

A life at high altitudes

nickyskye — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:36:16 -0800

The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City, houses paintings by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian artist, who spent most of his life on the Indian-Tibetan border, creating evocative images of night and day in the Himalayan Mountains. (more inside)

The Ted Kierscey Collection

Gator — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:15:33 -0800

The Narrow Gauge Circle hosts, among other fine features, the Ted Kierscey Collection -- page after page after page of historical photographs of Colorado's railroad and mining towns.

The Biggest Collection Of Full Cigarette Packs In The World

Gator — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:38:48 -0800

Igor Sergeev has been collecting full, unopened cigarette packs from all over the world since 1976. His site now features over 21,000 photos, arranged in alphabetical order by brand name. Some are fascinating simply for the way they differ from what we're used to seeing at the 7-11; others are straight-up nine kinds of awesome.