MetaFilter posts tagged with photography

Wisconsin Death Trip

Kattullus — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:22:36 -0800

Charles Van Schaick was a photographer in Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the late 19th and early 20th Century. His work was made famous by Michael Lesy in the book Wisconsin Death Trip in which the photographs were juxtaposed with local newsreports of murder, suicide, disease, insanity, animal mutilation and other calamities plus the occasional non-morbid event. Flickr set of photos used in Wisconsin Death Trip. Some of the texts from Wisconsin Death Trip. Robert Birnbaum interviews Michael Lesy about Wisconsin Death Trip and other things. Over 2500 photographs by Charles Van Schaick owned by The Wisconsin Historical Society. [Warning: Some of the photographs are of deceased infants]

War Photographer

netbros — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:44:44 -0800

David Guttenfelder is the chief Asia photographer for The Associated Press. Recently, he has been focusing his lens in Afghanistan. Photographer Collection: David Guttenfelder in Afghanistan and On Assignment: Afghanistan.

Birds. Photos. Movies.

ooga_booga — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:27:12 -0800

Andrew Zuckerman's Bird Book

Hiroshi Watanabe

vronsky — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:01:04 -0800

Hiroshi Watanabe -- Love Point::Suo Sarumawashi::Ideology in Paradise::"I see angels every day"::Kabuki Players::Japanese Studies::Northern Places::Species Among Us

Time to get in the water, ya?

Hypnotic Chick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:39:13 -0800

National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen (pre vi ously) relates the harrowing tale of a sweet, insistent, and ferocious lunchmate (note - clip begins with a dramatic drumbeat, mind your speakers) As a side note, jontyjago has shown us that human/leopard seal encounters do not always end well.

Dressed For Thrills

vronsky — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:28 -0800

Phyllis Galembo: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade

Photo Real

dersins — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:16:54 -0800

The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. at the University of New Mexico. "In 1941 to 1943, Collier worked as a photographer with the Farm Securities Administration and the Office of War Information under Roy Stryker and documented many areas around the eastern U.S and northern New Mexico." The full photoset is at flickr here.

kathmandu glue

nitsuj — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:52:40 -0800

KATHMANDU_GLUE^nsfw // Frankie Nazardo set out to capture the glue gangs of Kathmandu.

Who needs the Kwik-E-mart? Not me.

mullacc — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:46:14 -0800

Re-inhabited Circle Ks - an exhibit of identical storefronts abandoned by a national chain of convenience stores and re-purposed by new businesses. - The photographer's Google map of former Circle Ks. - Some commentary on the exhibit. - Previously: Not Fooling Anybody, a chronicle of bad conversions and storefronts past.

Expeditions to the Polar Regions

netbros — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:01:49 -0800

The Polar Discovery team has documented science in action from pole to pole during the historic 2007-2009 International Polar Year, and covered five scientific expeditions. The science projects explored a range of topics from climate change and glaciers, to Earth’s geology, biology, ocean chemistry, circulation, and technology at the icy ends of the earth. Through photo essays and other multimedia, they explain how scientists collected data and what they discovered about the rapidly changing polar regions. From the awesome folks at WHOI.

Enchanted Spaces

vronsky — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:40:56 -0800

Enchanted Spaces by Marrigje De Maar. Russia::Finland::Chi na::Japan

“The crowd is his domain, just as the air is the bird’s, and water that of the fish. His passion and his profession is to merge with the crowd.”

ocherdraco — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:41:28 -0800

The 65-Year-Old Virgin: Robert Bergman’s photographs, finally revealed. "The last time Robert Bergman had a gallery show, it was 1964, and he was 20 years old. The college dropout and his best friend, Danny Seymour, took their earliest photographs, produced in a 'lint-filled darkroom'—a.k.a. his mother’s laundry room—to a 'rinky-dink bookstore' in Minneapolis’s run-down West Bank. 'Me and Danny just threw some pictures up on the wall,' he says. 'You couldn’t even call that a show.' Bergman is 65 now, and making a real debut in not one but three venues, at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; Chelsea’s Yossi Milo Gallery; and, extraordinarily, the National Gallery of Art. (This is the National Gallery’s first artist’s debut show ever.)" An interview with Robert Bergman, and a slideshow of some of his work.

Wayne Levin

vronsky — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:03:48 -0800

Photos by Wayne Levin of surf ers, swim mers, fish and more. (-v-)

Harvest Time.

gman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:45:37 -0800

A Mendocino mid-fall marijuana harvest as documented by photographer Mathieu Young. (via - with some info)

They're Made of People!

You Should See the Other Guy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:17:08 -0800

Philip Bloom's: Venice's People; Dublin's People; San Francisco's People; Sofia's People. Vimeo vids.

Black and White WTF

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

A blog of strange (found) B&W photography

Angry People in Local Newspapers.

minifigs — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:42:55 -0800

Angry People in Local Newspapers feels "sorry for local news photographers. They are hugely skilled and poorly paid, and sent out to photograph miserable people pointing at dog turds. Here, we celebrate their work"

After the Wall

vronsky — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:12:29 -0800

After the Wall: Traces of the Soviet Empire

Iconic Photos

Joe Beese — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:05:10 -0800

Iconic Photos

Candy for the Eyes

isopraxis — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:58:56 -0800

Something vivid and sweet for Friday:
Liz Wolfe takes beautiful photographs.
Cool Hunting interviews Liz.

LIMA PERU

vronsky — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:45:41 -0800

CARLOS JIMÉNEZ CAHUA : "This young Peruvian photographer, now based in New York, returned to Lima to document the city’s unchecked sprawl into the desert, where flimsy plywood houses huddle together, as if for warmth. Jiménez Cahua takes the long view, typically framing broad landscape vistas from an omniscient, elevated perspective, so teeming neighborhoods appear unpopulated, toy-like." NYer (alt view)

It's very fancy on old Delancey Street, you know.

miss lynnster — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:10:58 -0800

11,000 Manhattan street corners.

George S. Zimbel

chunking express — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:52:52 -0800

George S. Zimbel is a documentary photographer. His website features a lot his work, which goes all the way back to the 1940s. There is a lot of great stuff to look through. His blog is also an interesting read.

Alastair Levy

nthdegx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:53:49 -0800

Alastair Levy is a photographer.

Corey Arnold

vronsky — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:08:27 -0800

Photography of Corey Arnold: Human Animals ll Arcticness ll Fish-Work Bering Sea ll Fish-Work Norway