Saturday, February 19, 2011

Larry Louie

Bathing Water, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2010

Working in the Balloon Factory, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2010

 At the Ferry Port, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2010

Beautiful, profound, moving photography by Larry Louie

Wonderful Machine

Here's a beautifully designed and functional website with links to photographers, weighted toward the commercial. Wonderful Machine

Saturday, February 12, 2011

These Americans

These Americans:  a vast archive of vintage American photography

Friday, February 4, 2011

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.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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

Thursday, January 20, 2011

TROELS CARLSEN

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

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Jon Fox

Emporers Dream by Jon Fox
(oil on canvas / 1400 x 2000 mm) 

Sunday, January 9, 2011

In Revolutionary Color

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

Kodachrome's Color-Drenched Life

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

Saturday, January 8, 2011

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.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

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

Monday, November 15, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Sarabeth Graziano

The Air We Breathe, 2010  by Sarabeth Graziano

Tuesday, October 12, 2010