Links tagged with “photographs”
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Wilder Mann | Charles Fréger
Photos of people across Europe as “the savage as it survives in local popular traditions”. Fascinating, and also I might have nightmares tonight.
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The Visual Science Lab / Kirk: Walking around S. Congress Avenue today reveling in the sub-90° weather.
I always enjoy his Austin photos, and this set gave me major nostalgia for distant visits to South Congress during SXSW.
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Barbican centre construction 1970s | Flickr
91 colour photos! Beech street before it was covered! Cut-away below-podium views! Gardens without plants! Views across London from the towers! Donkey jackets! Brilliant.
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Atlas Minor • Fireworks
What a great photo, and a lovely paragraph that echoes my mind at the moment.
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Photo Essay: 100 Years That Changed Houston | Houstonia Magazine
I enjoyed these photos of people in Houston. (via Things Magazine)
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‘Everything is at its lowest point of energy’ - awful mass
I like these “uninteresting photographs”, the discussion of what makes for an uninteresting photograph, the search terms used to find them, etc.
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What’s the Opposite of a Cellphone Photo? - The New York Times
Lovely portraits in a park by Bruce Polin. (via The Online Photographer)
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Portraits - Washington DC Photographer Stephen Voss
I love some of these. A nice reminder that “portraits” don’t have to be headshots. (via The Online Photographer)
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Cody Cobb
Lovely landscape photography. (via The Online Photographer)
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chris dorley-brown
Some lovely photos of mostly east London. Good colours and more. (via The Online Photographer)
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Light, landscape, lives, Kate Kirkwood
Really lovely photos from the Lake District. Simple but gorgeous. (via The Online Photographer)
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: WATCH
Photos from Eno and Byrne’s 1981(?) recording session. (via The Online Photographer)
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Kiev’s fatigue
Really good photos of people in Kiev. Maybe taken before the recent fighting. Just waiting, tired. (via The Online Photographer)
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Time travel on Behance
I rather like these, the artist inserting herself taking a photo into old photos. (via Kottke)
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HINT.FM: The Art Of Reproduction
I like this idea - making a famous image out of a mosaic of different versions of it found online - but i hate that needless faux-3D tiled effect. Odd. (via The Online Photographer)
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Leningrad Siege: Now and Then | English Russia
Very simple, a blending of old and new photos, but very effective.
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Essex Fingerposts - a set on Flickr
Lovely set of familiar signposts. (via Paul Mison)
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John C.H. Grabill’s Photos of Western Frontier Life | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post
Lots of photos of late 19th century America, centered on the town of Deadwood. Some lovely images there. (via The Online Photographer)
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Flickr: Elspeth and Evan’s stuff tagged with digitalcollage
These are very interesting, although they don’t feel like they’re quite there. It’s almost a shame that they’re based on existing photos (and that a lot are naken women (ooh, Art!)). It feels like it’s close to something though. (via Kottke)
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The Sweeney Forum • View topic - London Wall
Stills from films/shows like ‘Blow Up’, ‘The Italian Job’ and ‘The Return of the Saint’ featuring London Wall and Barbican highwalks, compared with photos from 2010.
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Chapter 10 - Examples (from Digital Restoration 1st-ed) (PDF)
Fascinating, close to magic. Second edition of the book is out now and I’d love to do this kind of thing. You know, if I managed to double my available time.
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CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Disappearing World of Soho’s Independent Record Shops
I was on Berwick St the other day, but didn’t go down far enough to see the demolition opposite Somerfield. I so hope they hang on, but then I buy MP3s over CDs whenever I can, so… (via Alan Connor)
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Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme
People submit a photo of themselves as a child, alongside a photo of themself today in the same pose. Some of these are awesome. Whole lives in two photos. Time travel. Hope.
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Bristol Then and Now Photographs - Page One
Lots of animated images with photos of past and (nearly) present Bristol. A shame more of them don’t line up better, but still interesting.
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Enid Crow Disasters
Nice Cindy Sherman-esque self portrait photography of characters witnessing disasters. (via Haddock)
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Old Walton Pictures Index
Loads and loads of old photos of Walton-on-Naze, where I often go on holiday.