MetaFilter posts tagged with celebrities and photography

Portraits of luminaries of the arts - 1930s-'60s

madamjujujive — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:08:36 -0800

Extravagant Crowd - Carl Van Vechten’s Portraits of Women and Photos of African Americans. Previous post by ND¢: Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten 1932-1964. Also, public domain works from Wikimedia Commons. Van Vechten was an influential critic, novelist, photographer, and promoter of the arts. He was an early patron of the Harlem Renaissance - but sparked a huge controversy with his unfortunately titled novel, Nigger Heaven. Despite this controversy, his interest in and high regard for African American arts was not in dispute. The Index and Introduction to the Portraits of Women collection is quite good, but for those who may not want to wade through all 96 pages of his African American collection, here is a selection I particularly liked: Eartha Kitt, 1954 Billy Dee Williams, 1963 James Earl Jones, 1961 Dizzie Gillespie, 1955, 2 James Baldwin, 1955 Ralph Bunche, 1951 Harry Belafonte, 1954 Billie Holiday, 1949, another, and with Mister Pearl Bailey, 1946 Leontyne Price, 1951, and as Bess Ossie Davis, 1951 Joyce Bryant, 1953 Diahann Carroll, 1955

Wow, isn't that... doing...? Wait.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:44:24 -0800

Alison Jackson takes paparazzi shots of celebrity lookalikes. (NSFW) Old news I'm sure, but I hadn't seen a comprehensive post before and I thought it was worth it. Wikipedia. Guardian and BBC links are reasonably SFW (some buttocks).

You look like a cross between Gary Cooper and Liberace!

blahblahblah — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:02:19 -0800

Find your celebrity dopelganger. MyHeritage is another site that uses face recognition on photos you upload, but the slick interface in this demo matches you up with one of 3,200 celebrities from the past two centuries which you (supposedly) resemble. You can upload photos with multiple people in them as well, and it will identify all the faces in the shot. I can't vouch for accuracy, but it is entertaining. [Registration required. Try username: metafilter@metafilter.com; pass: metafilter. The site does not appear to save photos that you have uploaded as part of the demo.]

"!em pleH", says Zatanna!

WolfDaddy — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:17:32 -0800

Pink Is The New Blog I don't know why I like it. I just do.

No peeking.

Sully — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:30:03 -0800

The Power of Positive Blinking. A gallery of celebrities at the moment of their blink.

Ivan Ho!

Robot Johnny — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:27:40 -0800

Ivan Brunetti, in addition to drawing dirty little comics (nsfw) and illustrations, has a great collection of vintage photographs of models, both demure and not-so-demure (again, nsfw), Hollywood starlets, cats, and comics ephemera. Finally, he also has a blog featuring a Doodle-a-Day.

which celebrity are you?

Tryptophan-5ht — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:02:43 -0800

Analogia - You upload your face and complex recognition software returns three celebrities you most resemble. Which are you? The software is surprisingly accurate! (Marginally NSFW: thumb nailed obscenity)

You Loved The 'Dirty' Video

owillis — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:26:13 -0800

David LaChapelle : New York magazine calls him "the Fellini of photography". Most others just remember the wacky picture of Lil Kim literally covered in Louis Vutton, Britney's coming out party or for that slimy (in a good way!) Christina Aguilera video.

some must put it on with a trowel.

crunchland — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:41:32 -0800

A gallery of photos showing celebrities with and without make-up.

Hollywood's Golden Era

crunchland — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:30:16 -0800

GLAMORLUX Cool Collections ~ vintage photos, movie posters, book covers and album covers from Hollywood's golden era.

wackybrit — Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:17:48 -0800

IMDB Charging Actors/Actress for Pictures The Internet Movie Data Base has provided an invaluable service to millions of Web users over the years. But now, the IMDB sees fit to charge actors and actresses to put a small 'headshot' pic on their pages.

What next? Will IMDB start charging studios to list their films? For an example of a page without a headshot, try the gorgeous Keira Knightley's page. Not so good without the pic, huh?

kokogiak — Sat, 07 Oct 2000 08:32:50 -0800

So was the dress red or purple? - And was Frances Bean dressed in black or Blue? An AP photo and Reuters photo taken at the same moment, less than two or three feet apart - yet so blatantly different. Don't trust everything you see, indeed. (and don't ask how I stumbled onto this page).