MetaFilter posts tagged with photograph

Rockwell's Tableaus.

grumblebee — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:29:30 -0800

Norman Rockwell's research photos. Norman Rockwell commissioned photos (which he meticulously directed) and then painted those photos. Here are some of them.

Black and White WTF

grumblebee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:08:44 -0800

A blog of strange (found) B&W photography

Is there no problem the internet can't solve - Flickr finds only known photo of Phineas Gage

jessamyn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:43:41 -0800

While many quirky news buffs may be aware of the story of Phineas Gage -- the Vermont railroad foreman who had a three foot iron rod penetrate his skull as the result of an explosion and lived to tell about it -- fewer know that the only known photograph of him was recently discovered. Fewer still know that the identification of that photograph happened via a Flickr comment. (no thanks to you LA Times, previously) - More on Gage from the owners of the photograph - other interesting pictures from their collection - Wikipedia article on Gage - "The American Crowbar Case and nineteenth century theories of cerebral localization" - More stories like this over at Flickr Discoveries - Other cool stuff over at the Harvard Medical School's Warren Museum - obligatory slideshare deck (actually pretty interesting)

Eternal sunshine

WPW — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:43:37 -0800

RIP Julius Shulman, iconic photographer of modernist architecture.

June 5, 1989: "Why are you here? My city is in chaos because of you."

blahblahblah — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:20:47 -0800

The iconic image of Tienanmen Square protests was that of the "Tank Man," a lone individual who stepped in front of a column of armored vehicles at the height of the massacre. On the eve of the anniversary of the protests, the New York Times interviews the four photographers who took images of the event, including how they got their film out of China, and there is also a video of the event, where you can see the man blocking the tanks. In a program available in full online, Frontline tries to find the identity of Tank Man, and finds that China has been remarkably successful in erasing the image from public memory. [prev.]

Zhang Peng’s photographic art

chiraena — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:23:43 -0800

Zhang Peng’s elaborate photographs have been called both "beautiful" and "disgusting". You can see some of them here and here.

You can almost hear 'em...

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:32:10 -0800

There's the fascinating autistic musical savant Blind Tom Wiggins. There are musical clowns and minstrels, and poignant images of child musicians. There are tantalizing and truly exotic images of musicians from far-flung corners of the world: India, Persia, China, Japan... all this and more at the Vintage Musicians Flickr group. Oh, and who's that critter with the banjo? Why, that may just be the ORIGINAL LOL CAT.

Trapped: Mental Illness in America's Prisons.

chunking express — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:06:16 -0800

Trapped: Mental Illness in America's Prisons by Jenn Ackerman. It's kind of very depressing. A mix of video, interviews and photographs. via HCSP.

Glamorous Fairytales

blahblahblah — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:23:09 -0800

Fashion meets classic children's fantasy: Vogue UK has photographed some amazing scenes inspired by the poems and other works of Roald Dahl, and featuring Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter. For more, see Annie Leibovitz's fashion-filled take on the Wizard of Oz with Kieira Knightley as Dorothy. Also Vogue does Alice in Wonderland, also by Annie Leibovitz with many of the odder characters played by fashion designers. And, in a slightly more sweet vein, the same photographer uses many famous faces to illustrate Disney fairytales. Finally, and a bit darker, are these takes on fairy tales.

Searching For Robert Johnson: Guitar expert spots new photograph on eBay auction

y2karl — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:26:03 -0800

...As he pored over the mass of texts and thumbnail photos that the eBay search engine had pulled up on that day in 2005, one strangely worded listing caught Schein’s eye. It read, “Old Snapshot Blues Guitar B.B. King???” He clicked on the link, then took in the sepia-toned image that opened on his monitor. Two young black men stared back at Schein from what seemed to be another time. They stood against a plain backdrop wearing snazzy suits, hats, and self-conscious smiles. The man on the left held a guitar stiffly against his lean frame. Neither man looked like B. B. King, but as Schein studied the figure with the guitar, noticing in particular the extraordinary length of his fingers and the way his left eye seemed narrower and out of sync with his right, it occurred to him that he had stumbled across something significant and rare... the more convinced he became that it depicted one of the most mysterious and mythologized blues artists produced by the Delta: the guitarist, singer, and songwriter whom Eric Clapton once anointed “the most important blues musician who ever lived.” That’s not B. B. King, Schein said to himself. Because it’s Robert Johnson.

Searching for Robert Johnson reveals not only what may be the third picture of Robert Johnson but a Byzantine struggle over his legacy as well.

Harvey Dent, eat your heart out.

auralcoral — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:25:17 -0800

"Baby Lali with two faces, two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes was born on March 11 in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday."

What are you looking at?

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

What makes a great portrait?

"It was so peaceful a death, that I felt its reproduction would not be in bad taste. But there probably would be another school of thought on this."

Smart Dalek — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:01:42 -0800

Before a hill, a figure rests, his hands folded. His face retains a unsettling demeanor of peace, or contemplation. Whatever thoughts come to his mind at this point, we shall never know, for he shall never awake from his slumber. [via] On Sunday, February 3rd, 2008, the Associated Press published the photo of slain journalist Ernie Pyle. Among those who recalled the incident, Richard Strasser was "The Army photographer who crawled forward under fire to make this picture later said it was withheld by military officials." Now in his eighties, he regrets not having sent a copy of the image to Pyle's widow.

" It is my goal to have the most complete collection of gaping animal maws that anyone can have"

hydrophonic — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:26:05 -0800

Gaping Maws is a collection of photos of animals with their mouths wide open. Like this.

Bilderbook

hama7 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:14:35 -0800

Bilderbook.

The odd, the unusual, the unbelievable

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:08:34 -0800

Fighter jets, overturned tractor trailers, WW II bombers, cars parked on walls, and more of The Strangest Sights in Google Earth

It's what's for dinner

Stynxno — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:10:50 -0800

Croc Bites Off Hand

Let Them Photograph Your Soul

fandango_matt — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:22:47 -0800

Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers is the product of Sound Shadows, a literacy-through-photography class taught by Tony Deifell, Shirley Hand, Dan Partridge and Jessica Toal from 1992 to 1997 at the Governor Morehead School for the Blind.

Turkey Cinemascope

ztdavis — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:12:10 -0800

Turkey Cinemascope is a series of dramatic photographs from director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Shot all across Turkey, he used them to record locations he was scouting for his films. Many are panoramic, some are epic, others intimate, and all are beautiful. (via and via)

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.

Picture Newsletter

hama7 — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:10:54 -0800

Picture Newsletter.

Souvenir Overlays

Bugbread — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:47:05 -0800

Michael Hughes takes cheap souvenirs, and then takes photographs with them superimposed over the real thing. A Flickr photo set.
via Wired's Table of Malcontents

"thousands of the most important photographs of the last 150 years"

MetaMonkey — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:54:17 -0800

Picture-History.com has "thousands of the most important photographs of the last 150 years", organised by collections and themes.

snapshots of Hokkaido, occasionally elsewhere

hama7 — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:02:20 -0800

digit.exp: snapshots of Hokkaido, occasionally elsewhere

Not just 'chicks with guns'

runkelfinker — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:27:27 -0800

Rachel Papo - photographer and soldier Some great pictures from Rachel Papo, a photographer and sometime (1988-90) soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces...