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Great photographers

Matthias Rascher — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:28:41 -0800

Great photographers: Clark Little (surf photography), Nick Brandt (mostly African wildlife), John Hyde (mostly wildlife and Alaska), Veronika Pinke (landscapes), Dale Allman (miscellaneous; particularly beautiful are his Australian cityscapes and the HDR/DRI photos), Ansel Adams (the undisputed master of nature photography who died in 1984; famous quotes: "You don't take a photograph, you make it.", "A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. "), Michel Rajkovic (mostly marine landscape, exclusively in black and white). And again, as a tribute to a gifted artist who died far too early, the work of Bobby Model (adventure photographer). Last but not least: Onexposure, probably the biggest collection of quality photography on the net.

"And there's a creepy doll..."

grumblebee — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:11:55 -0800

Sleep tight. (I recommend you listen to this while viewing the link.)

Pictures don't lie

Miko — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:27:24 -0800

Photomontage timeline, 1850-2007. Spirit photography, trick photography, comic montages, Photoshop, etc. I only wish you could enlarge these images. But I'm glad to have learned about the Cottingley Fairies.

Nothing Is Real, not even Real

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:16:41 -0800

Patrick Dangin on the work of a photo retoucher . Make no mistake about it: in this age, even Real Beauty is fake.

What are you looking at?

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

What makes a great portrait?

Man versus nature

klangklangston — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:54:20 -0800

Domesticated by photographer Amy Stein explores the tension between settled and wild spaces.

Stranded is another collection of work dealing with the expectations of public and private space.

More self-explanatory: Women and Guns and Halloween in Harlem. She also has a fine blog.

You peed on my car but I still love you. WHY???

Smedleyman — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:49:57 -0800

Got an embarrassing love letter or humiliating photo from your angsty teenage years you’d like plastered all over the web, perhaps recited aloud and featured in live performances? Thought so

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).

The anxiety of influence

GrammarMoses — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:31:05 -0800

Sibling rivalry. Meet Edward Mapplethorpe, photographer. Yes, he's related to the other one. They're brothers -- which has actually made things harder for Edward than you might think. In his latest show, just wrapping up at NYC's Foley Gallery, Edward does amazing work using darkroom techniques alone: "The exhibition is composed of unique works solely created in the darkroom without the use of traditional cameras." (This one is my fave from the current show; of his earlier work, I particularly like this one and this one [nsfw].)

The Forgotten Lens

ColdChef — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:45:23 -0800

50mm, the Forgotten Lens Why You Should Ditch That Zoom for a Classic 50mm "Normal" Lens. A good article to send to people who are thinking of buying a new camera, but have no idea what they need. (Also, Your camera does not matter.)

Make faces, not war

elgilito — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:56:39 -0800

The Face2face project. JR, an "undercover photographer", and Marco, a technology consultant, had 41 people - israelis and palestinians - mugging for the camera and plastered the huge, unavoidable pictures on both sides of the Israeli West Bank barrier, pair by pair : one israeli, one palestinian, both having similar jobs and posing in a similar fashion (+an imam, a rabbi and a christian priest). See also the trailer (YT, other videos available on the main site).

Li Wei falls to the Earth

Terminal Verbosity — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:16:19 -0800

Beijing artist Li Wei switched from oil painting to performance art in 1999; in 2000 he used mirrors to create a ... detached collection. Then he began falling into things.

Bill Sullivan's situational photography

hydrophonic — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:37:51 -0800

Bill Sullivan calls his strict approach to taking candid shots "situational photography." Each subject in the uniformly composed photos is doing the exact same thing, like going through a turnstile or posing for a street artist. More candid street photograpy: Harry Callahan (1 2 3 4 more), Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1 2 3 4 more) ,and previously. One diCorcia photo led to a recent ruling that non-commercial street photography is protected under the 1st Amendment. 'more' links have NSFW images. The other direct links should be fine.

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.

Inner City Youth, London

tpl1212 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:24:34 -0800

Inner City Youth, London "In 2002, Simon Wheatley began photographing London's publich housing developments...and was able to obtain a level of intimacy with his subjects that provides a true picture of the daunting project of growing up in the intimate confines of drug use, societal neglect, and poverty." This (Flash-based) narrated slideshow features Wheatley's work, and is a look at the culture...and also the music (grime) "as an artistic response to the place and circumstance, an expression of the violence, bleakness, and neglect..." (via Future Feeder)

The Adaption to my Generation

tpl1212 — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:15:43 -0800

The Adaption to my Generation - daily portraits of Jonathan Keller...from 1998 to the present (as he states, "The project will continue until the day I die. Only then will it be complete, and worth its true value."). Also of note...his links page, which includes links to other "passage of time" (like the Portrait of Louise Anna Kubelka from birth to adulthood and Nicholas Nixon's "25 Years of the Brown Sisters") and "obsessive" (like Eat22 and 365 Plrds) photo projects...via Information Aesthetics.

Germaine Greer on posing for Diane Arbus

matteo — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:11:35 -0800

Wrestling with Diane Arbus "She set up no lights, just pulled out her Rolleiflex, which was half as big as she was, checked the aperture and the exposure, and tested the flash. Then she asked me to lie on the bed, flat on my back on the shabby counterpane. I did as I was told. Clutching the camera she climbed on to the bed and straddled me, moving up until she was kneeling with a knee on both sides of my chest. She held the Rolleiflex at waist height with the lens right in my face. She bent her head to look through the viewfinder on top of the camera, and waited".

Nothing fancy

Rothko — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:13:53 -0800

Nothing fancy — except, perhaps, the multidimensional sacred geometry.

Photomuse

tpl1212 — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 05:33:25 -0800

Photomuse - a searchable (and growing [NYtimes]) collection of "masterwork photography" combining the collections of the George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography... [via]

Her face is very beautiful but small boob.

gen — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 16:18:44 -0800

Syashin Mania is a collection of photos of pop culture Japan. In this case it is fan car art of Ayumi Hamasaki, a popular singer. (Some other pages on the site are NSFW.)

just wow

amberglow — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:32:56 -0800

Mike Disfarmer had a photo studio in the resort town of Heber Springs, Arkansas throughout the 30s and 40s, creating images with an amazing blunt, unvarnished beauty and strength. Nothing speaks more eloquently about Disfarmer's artistry than the photographs themselves. His genius was the ability to capture without judgment, the essence of a people and a time.

Project: Shutterbug

staggernation — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 07:06:11 -0800

Project: Shutterbug. Taking pictures of tourists taking pictures. It's a small collection right now, but maybe you can help it grow. From the Hungover Gourmet.

mathowie — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 15:50:38 -0800

Today, I was searching for some stock art photos at photodisc. I needed an image of someone programming a computer, and in that search I found this picture. The words associated with it were all variations of 'hacker' but I was surprised that I didn't see 'leather and flashlight fetish' in the keywords. And by the way, don't you think a hacker would know how to type correctly?