In a last ditch attempt to rescue the family upholstery business from ruin with his new and groundbreaking marketing concept that will “Make the parachute history”, young Gaston de la Vaulx (22) poses in front of his flying machine before the inaugural test flight. (June 1908. Agence France Presse)
Before climbing into the [...]
“For the last 15 years, Abelardo Morell has been quietly building one of the great ongoing photography projects - a view of the world through rooms that have been turned into camera obscuras.”
This is such a stoned idea -
(Click to enlarge) Central Park looking Northwest, New York City, 1999.
Uffizi Museum Windows, Florence, Italy 2000
Morell [...]
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I found this arresting image on the amazing Dutch Circus Museum website a while ago. It dates from the 1920’s, I think.
(CAUTION! When you follow that link you will immediately be subjected to irritating and loud announcements in Dutch. There’s a button at top right that turns [...]
It’s always a pleasure to walk towards my studio. Often the nearby bamboos will project a shimmering, almost three dimensional lightshow onto the large door.
Shadow Play
I make an effort to concentrate on the flickering patterns dancing in front of me. It’s not enough to merely see these things. We have to look. [...]
We went for a walk this evening to Gatton Park, Surrey, RH2 0TD ( 51°15′36.86″N 0°10′27.73″W) arriving late, but perfectly on time for golden hour.
This garden has been resurrected and restored in the grounds of Gatton Park, which used to be the home of Jeremiah Colman, the Mustard Magnate, who I wrote about [...]
This is an amazing shot by Jocke Berglund of Sweden that has just won him a prize in the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer Of The Year competition.
The Hurricane Tree Sweden 2005
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When Hurricane Gudrun thundered across southern Sweden in January 2005, it left around 100,000 people isolated and without electricity.
Deep snow, [...]
Sato Shintaro says “These shots were taken in the streets of Tokyo and Osaka at night , and in them I have avoided the more aesthetically pleasing locations such as seaside areas and the well-known “subcenters” in favor of the everyday disorder of the streets.
Take a brightly-lit busy street bustling with people and remove [...]
Mesta Machine Company employee, 1913
The Carnegie Museum of Art, (One of the four Carnegie museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) has put up an online collection of photographs containing 752 images from 1874 through 1958 showing scenes from mills and factories, street scenes, portraits, and aerial shots of downtown Pittsburgh.
The series is composed of photographs by internationally [...]
Remember a portrait of an impish little baby I posted a while ago?
Here’s a reminder: (Click the thumbnails to enlarge).
That painting was not done from life, but from this photograph below:
I admit that the picture doesn’t really enlighten you much as to who its subject is.
Have a look at this next one and see if [...]
Oscar Grillo posted this image on his Oscartoons blog back in June 2006.
He remarked:
The Lumiere Brothers not only invented the “Kinematograph” but they also invented the “Autochrome”, a wonderful system to record colour images on a glass plate.
They had an exquisite eye for photographic aesthetics.
I was bowled over by the rich saturated [...]
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