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Images of unknown provenance

tellurian — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:46:44 -0800

*M*I*R*R*O*R* *W*O*R*L*D* Photographs Of Unknown Origin [NSFW]

Scariest Storm Photos

spock — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 09:17:18 -0800

Bored by the relative dearth of tornadoes this year the chasers over at the Stormtrack forums have started a (GREAT) diversionary thread asking for chaser's photos of "scariest storms". See the menacing crocodile, the human skull, and the twin twisters. Lots of old historical tornado photos here. AnyMeFites have any scary storm photos to share?

The Photographs of Paul Strand

matteo — Mon, 30 May 2005 11:57:53 -0800

Strand's roving gaze "My work grew out of a response, first, to trying to understand the new developments in painting; second, a desire to express certain feelings I had about New York where I lived; third...I wanted to see if I could photograph people without their being aware of the camera."
Three Roads Taken: The Photographs of Paul Strand. more inside.

Papapetrou & Lewis

tellurian — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:44:56 -0800

Melbourne artist Polixeni Papapetrou takes photographs of her daughter that are inspired by Lewis Carroll. For the same reasons. [Links SFW but be careful clicking around]

Harajuku Street Style

riffraff — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:12:13 -0800

Harajuku Street Style. Oh those crazy cool Japanese kids! The streets of Harajuku are as much a fashion playground as they are an exhibit of Why You Should Never Pair White Boots with Gold Chains. This is, of course, in line with the existing weirdness of the brilliant Katamari Damacy, mayonnaise-and-squid pizza, and the "no caption required" homoerotic dating sim "le, Tatemasu!",

McWhodini's

Hands of Manos — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:35:37 -0800

The Floating Logos Project .'Floating Logos' is a working title for this project. The images are inspired by signs perched high atop very tall poles in order for people to view them from a very long distance. The poles are digitally removed from the image in order to give the illusion that the signs are disconnected from the ground as they ominously float above us.

RIP Richard Avedon.

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:47:43 -0800

Another master taken: Richard Avedon, dead at 81. Arguably the greatest portrait photographer in history, Avedon was famous not only for his fashion or celebrity shots, but also his interest in the common man, best emphasized by the book "In the American West". He was recently working on a piece, "On Democracy" when he suffered a brain hemorrhage. Many may be familiar with his simple black & white on white style from his shots for the New Yorker (he was their first staff photographer). His site is currently shrouded in respect.

Life in Vladimir

gesamtkunstwerk — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:43:13 -0800

Life in Vladimir An amateur photographer would like to introduce you to Vladimir, one of the most beautiful cities of ancient Muscovy. Via Seelangs, a list serve for Slavic and East European Languages.

Eyeballoverload

euphorb — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:27:30 -0800

Eyeballoverload can be described as follows: "Nick Spark is a California-based photographer who specializes in montage or composite photography. This is a technique in which dozens, if not hundreds, of photos are seamlessly pasted together to create a unified image. The result is a balanced, yet highly detailed view of reality... albeit slightly enhanced."

Red Top

hama7 — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:48:16 -0800

Red Top: Photography.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Photos

kirkaracha — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:00:01 -0800

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Photos Pictures from Robert Pirsig's original 1968 trip, part of a gallery of photo albums inspired by the trip, including 360° panoramas. [via WikiPedia]

just pictures, no questionable backstory

pieoverdone — Sat, 22 May 2004 06:43:56 -0800

She arranged the flowers, which were grown in radioactive soil in an experimental greenhouse.. Photographs of Chernobyl 1994-1998.

Mourning Chickadee?

Witty — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 06:49:18 -0800

A picture's worth a thousand tweets, sure. But I still would like to know what happened here.

Thank God for the camera, for the testimony of the light itself, which no mere man can contradict

thatwhichfalls — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 03:55:41 -0800

The Kodak vs. the King . Images of the the Belgian Congo (aka the Congo Free State) from it's heyday under the personal rule of the very evil King Leopold. The contrast between the photographs used by Leopolds apologists and those used by his enemies (lead by the remorseless E.D. Morel) is probably unsurprising but interesting as evidence of perhaps the first propaganda war to be dominated by photography. Also, the first genocidal atrocity to be, very partially, documented photographically.

The kodak has been a sore calamity to us. The most powerful enemy that has confronted us, indeed.... Every Yankee missionary and every interrupted trader sent home and got one; and now -- oh, well, the pictures get sneaked around everywhere, in spite of all we can do to ferret them out and suppress them.

Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy

(most links go to the excellent boondocksnet site which takes as its starting point Mark Twain and his anti-imperialist campaigns and branches out most impressively from there)

Terrifying Fish

jonson — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:04:19 -0800

Terrifying gallery of fish from the deep, DEEP seas.

Japanese Railway Train Panoramas

carter — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:13:43 -0800

Kazumi Namiki uses a slit camera to capture panoramic pictures onto a whole roll of film. He uses his slit camera to take photographs of Japanese railway trains; lots and lots of trains. [via boingboing]

Dead cool

jonson — Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:14:27 -0800

Slightly ominous, slightly beautiful collection of ePostcards (and photographs) of Streatham Cemetery, rendered in the subtlest use of Flash I've ever seen (gentle animations on small portions of each image. Be sure to view the cemetery in all four seasons, multiple pix of each.

Interminable, relentless sequence of imagery

riffola — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:53:01 -0800

The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began on December 30^th, 1994, a 'round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery by Brad Brace, which are simultaneously posted to FTP sites, mailing lists, and Usenet's alt.12hr newsgroup. The basic structure of the project has been over twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence of photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 12 years' worth of 12-hour postings! (Mirrors: 1, 2, & 3) [via waxy]

Nature's Rings

tomplus2 — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:05:30 -0800

A lightning bolt created a beautiful smoke ring in the sky the other day. It resembles of Mt Etna's and other volcano's beautiful rings. Nature at it's best.

down with the force on the emerald isle

tankboy — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:11:11 -0800

Yoda in Ireland! What do you get when you combine a wizened Jedi master, the fabled Emerald Isle, and perhaps a pint too many of Guiness™? The best vacation pictures ever!

Pinholin' His Way Through Cancer

o2b — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:26:45 -0800

A pinhole photography buff documents his second cancer experience. The straightforward narrative is very striking, and the photos, while sometimes off the strict topic, build a picture of a real person.
via Harrumph

About freaking time

Busithoth — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 14:28:13 -0800

Remember the Coastal Records Project? When I first heard about this, I applauded, then wasted a couple of hours looking at the nice pics. But I couldn't help wondering when they'd run into some compound of a celebrity who'd put up a stink (okay, I was hoping it would be Ah-nold, and there'd be a scene reminiscent of his movies, stinger missile launched from his patio at the helicopter...) alas, it's only Barbara. Still, does this only make me wonder if our celebrities are helping push through laws to establish themselves in a higher class than us peons? Please note that the irony of rich people suing each other isn't lost on me, and I'm not trying to put forward that it could be any one of us touring in a helicopter doing this. But I mean, the guy's taking picture's of the whole coast, not just some star-map, coastline version. Until this lawsuit, I'd wager, only the most dedicated stalker would've known this was her place. But now...

Remove It From My Sight!!

bas67 — Sun, 18 May 2003 20:36:57 -0800

Politics storms the museum Earlier this month, the National Museum of Natural History opened "Seasons of Life and Land," an exhibit of wildlife photographs by artist-naturalist Subhankar Banerjee. If you go to Washington, you'll find the show hung in the museum's Baird Ambulatory Gallery, essentially a basement hallway installed with lights. Just two months ago, however, it was prepared to run in a more complete form in a premiere gallery on the museum's main floor, alongside a major exhibit of botanical paintings. What happened?

Bruiseblog

dum2007 — Fri, 16 May 2003 08:12:33 -0800

Matthew's Eye has been healing ever since he got a nasty shot from someone. His site shows the process through a series of photos, one taken per day.

Bailey and Rankin

Raindog — Sun, 11 May 2003 02:18:59 -0800

Bailey + Rankin Down Under - Exhibition now showing in London. Beautiful? Shocking? Most striking is the contrast created between related subject matter by two of the world's top photographers. NSFW (unless you work in either a gynaecologists or a top model agency).