Category Archives: photography
Corner boys
Alas, you don’t get street gangs looking this smart anymore (or, maybe you do. Stick yours in the comments). This appears to be an autochrome – on which subject I have a long uncompleted post sitting in the back.
LIFE picture library at Google
William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Paris, October 1959, picture by Dean Loomis from the monstrous heap of pictures from LIFE magazine, now hosted and searchable at Google. (via all over the place)
Great White Hunter
As usual with FFFF, I have no idea who is responsible for this. At larger resolution (for which you should click through from the page linked here) it appears this image is advertising clothing of some sort. I think it’s … more…
Rock Art of England
Gled Law, Northumberland New site which aims to catalogue the rock art of northern England. (via Guardian)
Titarenko’s City of Shadows
Alexey Titarenko, City of Shadows, 1992-1994 Long exposure shots of busy city streets — presumably St. Petersburg, although it doesn’t say specifically. (via FFFF)
Seiji Shibuya
Untitled, Seiji Shibuya, 2004
Chaitén (with reclining thunderhead)
An electrical storm passes over Chaitén, the volcano currently erupting in Chile. The images call to mind those improbably busy artist’s impressions of the early days of the planet. (via MeFi) ASIDE: Yes, I know, it’s been ages. I’ve been … more…
test your vest
Testing a bulletproof vest, September 1923 I expect we can think of all sorts of ways this quality control procedure might be improved. (original image via Shorpy)
Maputo demolition
Last moments of the 4 Seasons Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique, photographer unknown Oh, we do like to explode beside the seaside… (via FFFF)
henna
These and a couple of other fine pairs of decorated hands appear to come from an ad campaign for Travel Corporation India, via BallaDora Typo-Grafika and FFFF. (I fear I’ve over-compressed the image here, a tad. BallaDora has fine copies.)