These Americans

These Americans:  a vast archive of vintage American photography

Chris Kotsiopoulos

Chris Kotsiopoulos composed this image with about 500 star-trail, 35 sun sequence and 25 landscape shots. The result is a stunning 24 hours shot which you should see in a higher resolution. If you want to know how he did you should read his post here.

William Gedney

Girl sitting on windowsill. Kentucky, 1964.
William Gedney Photographs and Writings, 
Duke University Rare Book, 
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Also posted here and here

Art Project powered by Google

Travel to museums around the world in Street View and build your own collection. http://www.googleartproject.com/

Alex Gross

"Product Placement",  32"x 34", oil on canvas, 2011 by Alex Gross

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier Photography

see also: Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work
YouTube:  ‪Vivian Maier, street photographer and nanny‬

TROELS CARLSEN

Foreground of the 8 Widdows
acrylics on antique engraving, 2007
TROELS CARLSEN

Jon Fox

Emporers Dream by Jon Fox

(oil on canvas / 1400 x 2000 mm) 

Mark Ryden

Mark Ryden's Yoshi the Forest Spirit

In Revolutionary Color

Russian photos taken 100 years ago look 
as if they were taken yesterday.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

A Tribute to KODACHROME

Kodachrome's Color-Drenched Life

Beijing, 1989, Rene Burri / Magnum Photos
       
Kodachrome Color History

The Pencil of Nature

Henry Fox Talbot's "The Pencil of Nature" was the first 
photo book ever to be commercially published in 1844 
is downloadable in its entirety here.

New Historic Site!

Using Google Maps,  I was also curious to see if I could relocate the corner of rue du Temple and boulevard du Temple where Daguerre made his 1838 photograph "Boulevard du Temple".

Based on Nicholas Jenkin's excellent research:
http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/archives/2007/08/traces.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/archives/images/boulevard%20map.jpg
http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/archives/2007/08/at_the_corner.html

Here is what I believe the location looks like today.  There should be a plaque marking the location of the first person recorded in a photograph, probably near where the carousel is now:

Google Street View

Chris McCaw

Chris McCaw, Sunburned GSP#317, 2009, 8x10
"Sunburn",  A project taking photography back to its primal beginnings
NPR interview

Sarabeth Graziano

The Air We Breathe, 2010  by Sarabeth Graziano

The FotoVisura Portfolio Review

Russian Alternative by Pavel Prokopchik
The FotoVisura Portfolio Review

20th-Century Portraits

Chester and his hounds, 1992 by Shelby Lee Adams included in 20th-Century Portraits at the New York Public Library

Lola Dupré

Image by Glasgow artist, Lola Dupré.  All my work shown here is made by hand, with paper and scissors. Posts before #90 also sometimes include pen and occasionally paint.