A few handwritten pages with poems and photographs from
The road is wider than long
During July and August 1938, as Europe prepared for war,
Roland Penrose and
Lee Miller (
slideshow) drove from Greece through the Balkans.
This was his record of the journey and declaration of love for her.
LEAVE YOUR TONGUE STUCK TO THE BARK
This will avoid all danger
of not meeting next year.
(Previous Lee Miller).
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on May 21, 2013 -
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We like to entertain… ourselves mainly… and it’s a comedy show much of the time, with little more than white walls and floorboards for a stage.
''Old Master'' shoots with just a cell phone or ipad. His compositions are definitely outside the norm, all with a cast of volunteers, no models.
This is amateur dramatics with a difference. (NSFW. BDSM, bondage, fetish).
Some of this work is included in this
online book.
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on Jan 31, 2013 -
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The Beat Hotel and neighbourhood as seen through the lens of
Harold Chapman.
Another
interview with Chapman.
Amongst the photos Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Mirtaud the cat.
The Beat Hotel (
wiki) was probably the last Parisian 'Vie de Boheme'.
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on Jan 21, 2013 -
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David Blázquez is a Spanish Photographer whose self portraits have him modelling human furniture. (
Warning: Naked Men no dangly bits)
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on Jan 7, 2013 -
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(NSFW) The contemporary meaning of
Shibari describes an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage.
Hikari Kesho
aka Alberto Lisi is an Italian
photographer, some of
whose Shibari
photography could be called
sublime.
Fotofest 2012 Biennial – The Art of Contemporary Shibari Exhibit is
currently running
with
these artists, all of whom have links to their websites, some of which are more extreme than others.
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on Apr 18, 2012 -
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Lucien Clergue is a French Photographer from Arles, and renowned for his
Nu zébré.
He was a friend of
Picasso and
Jean Cocteau.
He still gives the occasional
talk:
Ansel said to me "I have been here for 40 years and I have never seen what you see."
Clergue: " I am Mediterranean by birth. What you see, I don't see. I look at the details."
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on Feb 2, 2012 -
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In all of my years of work with the lens (since 1906) I've dreamed of and loved to work with the human figure - to embody it in rocks and trees, to make it part of the elements.
The Glory of the Open - Camera Craft - April 1926.
At a time when decent Christian women in the U.S. were expected to be modest and to achieve fulfillment in motherhood, Anne Brigman was trekking up into the mountains in trousers…a scandal in itself…carrying a heavy pack of camera equipment. There she
shucked off her pants and societal expectations, and she entered into a pagan world inhabited by dryads and nixies...and there she made art.
Anne photographed herself, her sister,
and friends using California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains to backdrop a
liberated woman decades ahead of her time.
YouTube
slideshow.
She was championed into the
Photo Secession movement by Alfred Stiglietz, and she was the only woman member from west of the Missouri.
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on Oct 3, 2011 -
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Richard Fischer's
floral sculptures are photos of extraordinary detail and beauty.
Experts believe many of the flowers he has photographed will become extinct within our lifetime.
(
warning: opens with sound)
[more inside]
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on Aug 17, 2011 -
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He has documented Pine Ridge; worked extensively in Pakistan and Afghanistan for the last several years; as well as hitchhiking across Siberia.
Aaron Huey is a photographer.
(link is flash; you can navigate from inside of it by clicking down the sidebar.)He has walked across America with his dog Cosmo, whilest keeping
a journal. He also has a
blog. Here are is a
taster of his work. Last april Verve Photo named
him as one of the new breed of documentary photographers. (
There are links to many others on the right sidebar)
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on Mar 5, 2009 -
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Mimar Sinan; 16th century
Ottoman Architect
Mimar Sinan born a Christian in Anatolia, from either a Greek or Armenian background, was conscripted into Ottoman service in 1511, and converted to Islam. He was the chief Ottoman architect to four sultans. Sinan worked in seismic, as well as political, fault zones, and his buildings are famous for their earthquake resistance. His extraordinary output included 146 mosques.
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on Aug 14, 2008 -
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Walking the Dog "All photos in this gallery were taken within a radius of about
3 miles of our home in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, mostly one handed while hanging on to an impatient dog with the other hand."
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on Nov 28, 2007 -
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Nicolas Chorier takes stunning photos of a wide range of subjects and themes using
Kite Aerial Photography. Be sure to click on the India link on the editions button as well as Uzbekistan.
Another Frenchman,
Arthur Batut (click "Le cerf-volant) took the first Kite Aerial Photograph in 1888. Here are some
resources should you wish to try this out.
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on Sep 24, 2007 -
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Underfire; images from the Vietnam war. Some photographers never made it out:
Dana Stone,
Henri Huet,
Sean Flynn.
Tim Page is still alive and his photos tell the story of
'Fire in the Jungle".
Several of these almost forgotten legends hung out at
Franki's House at one time or another.
Page, Stone and Flyn were all friends of Michael Herr who wrote about them and the war in
Dispatches which was widely acclaimed and acknowledged by Hunter S. Thompson as
puts the rest of us in the shade.
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on Aug 8, 2007 -
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Esfahan is home to the
Blue Mosque and other buildings with their unique
blue tiles which are beautifully shown in
photographs
by flickr's
horizon.
Esfahan is a world heritage site and is home to many examples of traditional Persian Architecture which is made up of
eight traditional forms which taken together form the foundation on which it was based in the same way that
music
was once based on a finite number of notes.
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on Aug 10, 2006 -
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