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August 1, 2009
The Feral Houses of Detroit
July 4, 2009
Steven Klein's Bruce & Emma Willis shoot
This month's W magazine features a very Ballard/fetish-y pictorial of Bruce Willis and his young bride Emma Heming shot by Steven Klein. I saw the paper copy in Borders and thought it looked fantastic, sexy, and creepy. Plus, the photos were huge, which I wish they were here. But alas. (Has anyone noticed how thin magazines are getting? Pretty soon they'll all look like the Economist.)
June 21, 2009
Solstice Parade 2009 - A Set on Flickr
February 26, 2009
William Hope's Spirit Photographs
The National Media Museum has a whole set of William Hope's "Spirit Photographs." From the intro to the set:
These photographs of 'spirits' are taken from an album of photographs unearthed in a Lancashire second-hand and antiquarian bookshop by one of the Museum's curators. They were taken by a controversial medium called William Hope (1863-1933)...Obvious fakes, time has rendered them spooky in different, much more interesting ways. The "female spirit" he uses is a bit odd looking, and Hope's use of her just floating there shows at least he knew how to freak people out.
...By 1922 Hope had moved to London where he became a professional medium. The work of the Crew Circle was investigated on various occasions. The most famous of these took place in 1922, when the Society for Psychical Research sent Harry Price to investigate the group. Price collected evidence that Hope was substituting glass plates bearing ghostly images in order to produce his spirit photographs.
Later the same year Price published his findings, exposing Hope as a fraudster. However, many of Hope’s most ardent supporters spoke out on his behalf, the most famous being Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hope continued to practice, despite his exposure. He died in London on 7 March 1933.
September 3, 2008
London from Above, at Night
Jason Hawkes takes absolutely stunning aerial photographs of London from onboard helicopters. He makes the city look like a gorgeous techno jewel that one only used to see in Japanese sci-fi anime.
Shooting aerial photography during the daytime had its own difficulties, you are strapped tightly into a harness leaning out of the helicopter, shouting directions through the headsets to the pilot. If shooting in the day can be difficult, night and the lack of light causes its own set of problems, but overcoming them is half the fun and the results can be stunning. I shoot at night using the very latest digital cameras, mounted on either one or two gyro stablazied mounts, depending on the format of the camera and length of lens I'm having to use.The teeny photo above doesn't do these photos justice. Click on the link to see 18 more monitor-pleasing large photos.
August 27, 2008
History of Fap
In 1826, the first photograph was taken. And then, in 1839, another important development in photography: The first nude photo was taken. My question: Why did it take 13 years?
For more firsts, check the mostinterestingblog.
April 21, 2008
Vancouver and Portland Galleries up!
At the end of March I visited my friend Olivia in Vancouver, BC. It was my first trip to Canada, and prob not my last.
You can see the full set here.
Then from Vancouver, I flew to Portland, OR and stayed with my friend Chris. This was my first trip to Oregon and also, not my last.
Dig that funky Portland scene here.
December 3, 2007
Bradford Noble does Vertigo
Through a link from a friend I came across this "Vertigo"-themed fashion spread for "OutTravel" Magazine, featuring drag queen Miss Brini Maxwell sporting some very Kim Novak outfits. No direct link to this spread (and the other six photos) but they are all ace. (It's in the "Fashion" section). I'm a sucker for anything "Vertigo," esp. as the Criterion Edition of La Jetee/Sans Soleil came in the mail.
September 28, 2007
Stephen Gill: Archaeology in Reverse
Continuing to photograph where his award-winning book Hackney Wick left off, Stephen Gill has made Archaeology in Reverse in his cherished area in East London. Still making pictures with the camera he bought at Hackney Wick market for 50p, this time he focuses on things that do not yet exist. This magnificently produced book features traces and clues of things to come in a poetic, sometimes eerie and quiet photographic study of a place in a state of limbo prior to the rapid transformation that this area faces during the build-up to the Olympics in 2012.I think I blogged about Stephen Gill before...oh wait, yes, I have.
July 1, 2007
Alain Delorme's Little Dolls
This has to be some of the freakiest stuff I've seen in some time. On the other hand, it's 2 a.m. in the morning. Help.
June 28, 2007
Hollywood Epic
I'm apparently three months late, but I didn't see anybody else post this. Annie Liebowitz shot a 16-page film noir story for Vanity Fair. And, well, everybody is in it: Jack Nicholson, Naomi Watts, Peter O'Toole, Sharon Stone, Penelope Cruz, and more!
Much better than the current Africa issue with its wrap-around cover, mostly because I don't have to see the awful faces of Bush and Rice. As my friend Chris said the other day, after all the destruction this man has caused to this and other countries, why does the MSM insist on still throwing him a bone? The "oh, but he has a progressive Africa policy" excuse is just lame, lame, lame.
May 25, 2007
They Needed to Talk
The details are a bit sketchy now, but everyone agrees the picture was taken in Memphis, Tennessee, on a late summer night in 1973. Karen Chatham, the young woman in blue, recalls that she had been out drinking when she met up with Lesa Aldridge, the woman in red. Lesa didn't drink at the time, but both were 18, the legal age then. As the bars closed at 3 a.m., the two followed some other revelers to a friend's house nearby. In the mix was a 30-something man who had been taking pictures all night. "I always thought of Bill as just like us," Karen says today, "until years later, when I realized that he was famous."
October 31, 2005
Excavating Time--Lost Photos Found
This site shares photos found in vintage cameras, forgotten by former owners, never developed until now. By way of RobotActionBoy.
June 19, 2005
sucka pants
This collection of photos from someone called sucka pants on Flickr reminded me of the grungy, sub-sub-subculture photos of We're Desperate or of Richard Kern. I especially recommend this shot. I...I don't know girls like this.
June 6, 2005
The Classic Photos of Garry Winogrand
I came across a book of Garry Winogrand photos the other day (too expensive to buy), and had to quickly educate myself about him and his darkly humorous work, much shot on the streets of New York. The man had an eye for the grotesque and the unseemly, and from looking at the photos you would think America is just one collection of freaky-ass lookin' people (wait, it isn't?). This long About.com article on Winogrand should do nicely. There's a gallery here, but watch out for f'ing popups.
May 16, 2005
The Photography of Stephen Gill
Stephen Gill has traveled to Estonia, Poland, and Croatia, but the most depressing country in his portfolio is his own England. Check out the photos for Invisible, Trolley Portraits, Hackney Wick, and Roadworks for a taste of the soggy isle.
By way of City of Sound
March 23, 2005
Japan in Black and White
Groove, baby, on these mysterious black and white photos by some Japanese cat called Yamasaki Ko-ji. No, that's not a photo of him above.
By way of Robot Action Boy
February 8, 2005
Lovely Pinhole Photography
This is a blog of black and white photography by R. Gardiner. It's good stuff!
December 28, 2004
Russia! Turn o' the Century! In COLOR!
Wowowow! Back in the 1900's, Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii figured out a way of photographing in color, using three black and white photos shot simultaneously with red, blue, and green filters in place. When he projected them back, he could combine the three (much like in printing) and attain a color image. Now the Library of Congress has painstakingly recombined the original negs into simply amazing color photographs of a world few have seen except for old, grainy black and white. Looks like it was shot yesterday...damn!
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)
December 10, 2004
Forget Megapixels, try Tom Swift's Camera
Analog jumps back into the game and kicks serious patootie.
Tom Swift's New Camera, Ready for Space and Spies
As an adolescent, Clifford Ross was an apathetic science student but obsessed by Tom Swift. Now 52, Mr. Ross has become a character appropriate to a boys' adventure novel. An artist and businessman, he recently became an inventor - of a camera unusual enough to capture the attention of serious scientists, including the kinds who work for the government, experimenting with nuclear fusion, space travel and spy systems. What grabbed them were photographs Mr. Ross took that allowed them to see with astonishing clarity a tiny footpath on the top of a Colorado mountain seven miles from the camera.
Yesterday and today, Mr. Ross is talking gigapixels, art and the essence of visual comprehension with a dozen scientists, at a meeting at New York University. This summit, closed to the public, was organized by Mr. Ross and his new scientific pals at the government's Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, which specializes in matters pertaining to nuclear weapons and threats to national security.
For that last line, read, "How can we spy on our citizens better?"
November 15, 2004
Flickr is to photos...
...what Blogger is to writing. That is, a handy service that takes all the pain out of posting photos online.
Gearing up for my trip to Taiwan, I want to make sure I can post my adventures when possible, so I looked into Flickr. It was a good sign of course, that Grand Poobah Phil Gyford had decided to use it, so I took the plunge last night. With a little tweakin', I have most of the services up and running, including this "badge" in the top right corner, and the ability to email photos to my blog, which will be coming in handy soon enough.
November 10, 2004
Blue Light Yokohama
From Metafilter comes this very cool link to NIGHT Windows, a collection of night photography of the sci-fi metropolis of Tokyo. If you have the right sort of cool phone, you can upload some of these to be your bg photo. I...don't have a cool phone.
November 4, 2004
Photographer Peter Funch
Some photographers just have that gift of making you see something with new eyes. Peter Funch is one of those guys.
September 21, 2004
Fading Ad Campaign
Frank Jump photographs fading ads seen on the sides of buildings in NYC. Some of these ads are all we have left of that time as buildings get torn down, or the lots in the front of them get built up. Fading Ad Campaign
By way of Creative Generalist
March 10, 2004
MidbrowArt Model Vs Photographer
Middle-aged nude photographer bares himself, too. While this is not safe for work, or lunch, I find Terry Donovan's self-portraits quite brave, if not hilarious. I certainly wouldn't "go there."
People! They're just naked!
MidbrowArt Model Vs Photographer
The Model Vs. Photographer series was created during a period of modest desperation. I had nobody available who was willing to model, but I wanted to keep moving ahead with cranking out images. While sitting around pondering this, I was struck by the idea that it would be hilarious if I would mimic the poses of models I had shot previously. This idea caught hold because of three things.First, I really thought that the shots would be funny. Second, it was about the only truly creative idea I had ever had. While I've often seen photographer do nude self portraits, I had never seen a male photographer deliberately adopt the same poses as the females that he had shot before. Third, what better way to blunt the criticism that most nude art degrades women? I'm saying that I'm perfectly willing to do anything that I ask my models to do.? And I really think that the more feminine the pose, the funnier the shots become. So, in a serious light, that begs the viewer to ask "why?" But, forget the "why", these are meant to be fun. Have a laugh at my e35ense. I welcome the "yuks".
By way of Fleshbot
March 4, 2004
Journey Into the Dead Zone
This is a fascinating photo-journey into the heart of Chernobyl Dead Zone taken by the 25-year-old Elena. Remember folks, this stuff could happen here (we have the wonderful "Diablo Canyon" plant only 70 minutes north of us).
January 14, 2004
My vewy foist digital camera
You are looking at the first photo taken with my new Canon Powershot A70. We got a little bit of cash during the holidays, so we finally got a camera after using the low-rez photos on my DV camera using the memory card. It was good in a pinch, but it was still a pinch.
Much online research and price-checking led me to choose the Canon and get it for $269 (list is $299) without tax and with free shipping. Thanks, www.mysimon.com! The online shop that had that deal was Willoughbys out of New York. I also bought a 256mb card from B&H for $50 something to replace the paltry 16mb card that ships with the camera.
Okay, so it's not much of a photo, but it's the first one I took. Rather flowers than a messy apartment...
This came just in time. Jessica's mother, aunt, and two of her sisters are coming tomorrow for a two-week stay. Expect some blogging to come, as we are going to Phoenix and Vegas.
Yep...
December 5, 2003
Gabrielle de Montmollin's Nightmare Visions
I found these photos of Barbie dolls to be creepy, surreal, and very satisfying. I know nothing about this photographer, but I'd like to see more.
Photographs by Gabrielle de Montmollin
August 8, 2003
Stop Motion Sense
A simple idea really: a series of still photos from the same location, shot in a minimal time frame, stitched together randomly by Flash. What results is a unnerving display of time eating itself, people's facial and body language coming unstuck from its original meaning and gaining new ones. More, please. (update: there is more.)
Stop Motion Studies - Series 2
From the web site:
All imagery was shot in London, England between October 12 and October 15, 2002. The camera used was a Canon PowerShot A40 -- a consumer grade still camera capable of taking roughly 64 low-resolution images per minute. The photos were then brought into Flash MX to be programmatically sequenced and formatted for the Web. There has been no cropping or retouching applied to the images.By way of Boing Boing