"We cannot help but see animals from a human vantage point, and therefore in some sense all the works in the present exhibition are actually about us."
Garden Fresh is a photo series featuring animals exploring a grocery store.
posted by quin
on Jan 3, 2013 -
34 comments
Need some inspiration for the new year?
Beautiful Moments is a short video compilation of people and animals doing interesting things at some of the most lovely locations on earth.
[slyt]
posted by quin
on Jan 1, 2013 -
6 comments
On December 5th, Instagram's founder Kevin Systrom
announced that Instagram would cut support for Twitter cards. On December 10th,
Twitter updated its mobile apps to include Instagram-like photo filters. On December 12th,
Flickr did too. On December 16th,
the New York Times reported that Systrom may have perjured himself during the process of selling Instagram to Facebook. On December 17th, Instagram updated its
terms of use to announce, among other changes, that its users now
"agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you."
In response, Wired has posted
How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account.
Previously.
posted by davidjmcgee
on Dec 18, 2012 -
192 comments
Photorealism has been highlighted here on the blue, where 2D work is made to look 3 dimensional. But what about the opposite? Artist
Alex Meade's live-model photographs look like paintings.
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posted by FirstMateKate
on Dec 9, 2012 -
16 comments
When everything was unknown, they were there. / When anything could happen, they were there. MuchLoved is Mark Nixon's series of photographs of well-worn transitional objects.
posted by Egg Shen
on Dec 5, 2012 -
19 comments
More often than not, some of the best observers of places are those not originally from there. Leon Borensztein was born in Poland, settled in Israel and emigrated only later in life to the U.S. in 1977. But unlike de Tocqueville and other aristocratic travelers of old, he had to make ends meet and stumbled into taking commercial pictures of average, normal Americans as a fly-by-night job to pay the bills. Borensztein’s portraits—comprised in his new book, American Portraits, 1979–1989, published this month by Nazraeli Press—took place on the sidelines of commercial gigs. His tools and techniques were dictated by his means: a generic backdrop, a camera, simple and spare. --
TIME Lightbox
posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 4, 2012 -
3 comments
Remains of the Day. "Wedding photographers tend to assume we have the best clients—impervious to things like divorce and disease. But despite the unending blog posts by photographers about the “honor” of shooting so-and-so’s nuptials, we know about as much about our clients as they do about us... Which is another way of saying not much."
posted by muddgirl
on Dec 4, 2012 -
31 comments
Hungarian photographer David Nemcsik has created a series called the "
Levitation Project" where he invites his friends to answer the question "where were you in your last dream?" and then attempts to recreate the surrealism of experience by having them float in midair at the location.
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posted by quin
on Nov 21, 2012 -
16 comments
"Sony has added some nifty new features. These include the ability to make copies of floppies using just the camera--very handy if you want to hand out extra disks on the spot. A new quarter-resolution (320 by 240) option also makes it faster to e-mail photographs. (The camera's full resolution is 640 by 480.) A built-in menu on the
MVC-FD71's LCD screen permits you to easily take advantage of useful new options such as these."
Unsurprisingly, the camera which arguably first popularized consumer digital photography
still has a following.
posted by 256
on Nov 16, 2012 -
40 comments
The permanent collection of the (US) National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago contains more than 2,500 pieces of art by 250 artists, all of which can be seen at
NVAM Collection Online. The site includes biographical material on the artists who created the work.
Featured Artwork.
A small selection.
(Via. Images at links in this post may be nsfw, and/or disturbing to some viewers.)
posted by zarq
on Nov 12, 2012 -
1 comment
On Kate Moss, and Taking One for the Team: "So, earlier this week Vanity Fair published a rare interview with Moss, in which the model, who is well-known for her circumspection, is unusually frank about the early years of her career. Moss was still a skinny, gangly teenager when she was plucked from mediocrity in Croydon and catapulted to superstardom. She was barely an adult, almost still a child, when she did her first topless photo shoot, with Corinne Day for The Face. In the interview, she talks about how uncomfortable this made her... This isn't the only the only revelation Moss made during the interview. It also turns out that the famous Calvin Klein campaign she did in 1992 with Mark Wahlberg gave her a nervous breakdown... Conveniently ignoring the fact that when the pictures were taken, Moss wasn't 'the face of the '90s', but a skinny teenage girl who cried because she was made to take her clothes off, Needham continues by saying that Moss' skinny frame 'seemed to encapsulate the euphoria of those long-distant times.'"
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posted by flex
on Nov 5, 2012 -
92 comments
Every few minutes of the day, all over the capital, people gather into small groups to share the same space and fleeting moment in time... simply to wait for something routine and forgettable as a London bus. In transient, with time to kill, and often among strangers, each collection of these individuals proves completely unique from the next. Each collection provides a little insight into London's incredible diversity, how they relate to their surroundings, and each other. The very deliberate intention with
By the Bus Stop, was to capture those little moments which happen spontaneously, when the meeting of individuals is completely left to chance.
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posted by netbros
on Nov 1, 2012 -
37 comments
"During that trip I even had a leech stuck to my eyeball for a couple of days. We tried coaxing it off with some raw meat and salt." Robbie Shone takes
eye-popping cave photos.
posted by unSane
on Nov 1, 2012 -
74 comments
