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 [...]
Just Peachy’s photos of a Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon.
Just Peachy says:
Portland’s Japanese Garden is located in Washington Park, at the western edge of downtown.
It is a beautiful and tranquil place encompassing five different garden areas that include ponds, streams, waterfalls, sand, stones, trees, and flowers.
Famously, when Nobuo Matsunaga, Ambassador from [...]
Forgetful kids. What will they be like by the time they are 60?
Somewhere, there is a little girl hop, hop, hopping, while looking for her lost dummy.
I spotted these little collections of brightly coloured items on or near the shore at Lulworth Cove, Dorset, UK, this last weekend of September.
I recommend a [...]
China Mansion Wang Qingsong 2003
(Click thumbnail to enlarge, but it’s a Big 450k download! )
In this five-scene photograph, I invite foreign guests in art, including honorable figures in paintings by Ingre, Courbet, Monet, Gauguin, Yves Klein, Jones, Bouchee, Rembrandt, Rubens, Renoir, Man Ray and etc. They are specially invited guests in my “China Mansionâ€, a [...]
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Here’s some fun you can have…. Open up Google Images, type in the letters DSCN, add four or more random numbers, then end your search string with “.jpg”
This will open up a world of amateur photography for your visual delight. The key thing is, that by using the first four [...]
We saw this family of deer during an evening walk in Reigate Priory Park.
Nice lighting.
Evening, Priory Park, Reigate
One of those perfect late summer evenings….
100 Photographs of 100 rooms.
Michael Wolf shows 100 residents of Hong Kong’s oldest public housing estate in their 100 square foot flats.
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This must be one of the saddest sights I have ever seen, and yet I cannot look away.
Michael Wolf’s website shows an amazing variety of images of China, including the [...]
House With Bicycle, Havana 2000
Elaine Ling presents a folio of black and white photos: Cuba Chronicles
Amazing work.
I came to work on this portfolio through shouted invitations to visit people’s homes as I wander down the streets carrying my 4×5 camera on a tripod.
Each home lead to the neighboring home and each one-room casa holds [...]
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