Adama Kouyaté. Untitled. Bouaké, 1967.
One amongst a stunning set of images by African photographers presented by Fifty One Fine Art Photography.
(Via Phil Bebbington.)
What are the best photos taken from an airplane?
I don’t know about best, but some of these images on Quora ain’t bad. For instance:
Photographers pose with their most famous photographs
Tim Mantoani took photographs of famous photographers holding their most iconic images:
The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.
Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.
The photograph above is Neil Leifer holding his photo of Ali and Liston taken on May 25, 1965.
tweet of the day
Whenever I see a picture of Newton Leroy Gingrich, I imagine there’s a half-eaten bowl of applesauce just out of frame.
— Aaron Winslow (@adwinslow) January 19, 2012
photo out of context
There’s really one reason,
and one reason only, that I put this photo here on clusterflock.
Joel, I love you, man, but that photo out of context was beginning to make my tummy sad every time I stopped by.
Besides, I know you love Culver’s.
¡Cuidado! Hay empanadas.
Each empanada is unique in the way that it is shaped and the way that the dough is crimped and folded. I got a bit confused when I tried to differentiate between all of them. Many places offer a helpful empanada key, showing the shapes for each individual one. And now I think that the verdura is actually the caprese: mozz, basil, tomatoes, and olives. It seems that I’m missing more than just the tuna. Hmm. Maybe my español isn’t as foolproof as I thought.
One day, while the kitchen door was open, I spied a counter full of circles of dough and little heaps of filling in their centers. So rest assured, these are all handmade by real Argentines. And fresh!
As my friend Charlie titled his maldita lengua post, My Life in Empanadas.
Enjoy every empanada.
Winter Citrus, Revisited
This is a story about winter citrus. More specifically, it’s a story about finding a day to play in a photo studio, complete with beautiful props and gorgeous styling. It’s a story dedicated to free form (there are no recipes here!), to abundant light, to taking it slow and easy during the new year, but mostly it’s a story about bright happy little fruit that inspires me.
Warning: Article includes several images of citrus desserts that may not be suitable for Deron and other sensitive viewers.
the inverse of the American Dream
Photographer Doug Rickard used Google Street View to find pictures for his latest show at the Museum of Modern Art.
According to Rickard, this epiphany fused immediately into a crystal-clear idea: He would use Street View as his camera and, working from a room in his home, travel the roads of neglected American cities and neighborhoods in a 21st-century “road trip.” This single idea would utterly consume his life for close to two years, resulting in the important body of work “A New American Picture,” a selection of which hangs today in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Chicago Screenshots
Chicago Screenshots is a (slowly growing) collection of Chicago-centric movie and television stills, presented as architectural and urban landscape photography.
The weekend
Google Image Search: Carlo Mollino Polaroids
Lewis Hine’s teen bike messengers
A fun collection of photographs and descriptions of teen bike messengers from the early 1900s.
Wreath this year…
I didn’t do a wreath for DIFFA this year. This one, I did at a client’s house this morning.
I hope they like it. The feathery greenery, painted silver, at the bottom the wreath: I couldn’t decide if it looked like hoar-frost or Santa’s beard, but it seemed terribly original.
photo out of context
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your inner fish
These are fantastic.
(thanks, Rich)
Image with a Little Bit of Context
I stumbled across this picture a few days ago and meant to post it sooner. The headline? ‘Cain’s Bodyguards Get Physical with Reporters‘.
Is that not the most comically over-intimidating presidential bodyguard you’ve ever seen?
photo out of context
photo out of context
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two walks
Rhein II
Andreas Gursky’s “Rhein II” set a new record for the highest selling price for a photograph ($4.3 million) yesterday. I must say I rather like it, though I do wonder how these things happen.
In Domestic Use
A series of photographs by Matylda Krzykowski.
Wanted: Personal Photo of Kate Mulgrew
Posted to Dubuque Freecycle list:
We are trying to find a photo that someone took with a personal camera of Kate Mulgrew that would be appropriate to have it transferred to a birthday cake for a HUGE FAN of hers….Since Kate is from this area, thought it might be possible…. If you have a photo of Kate that I could borrow we would be so grateful! I would take it, get it copied and returned to you in an hour! I would need it today however…I know short notice…but I didn’t realize copyright laws on cake would be a problem. silly me.
Thanks!!!!
I took a walk today
