Ansel Adams on visualization

(SilberStudios.Tv)

A rare, previously unreleased video of Ansel Adams provided by The Ansel Adams Gallery and Mark Silber. Sound advice from a master; short and sweet.

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Men and Machines

Dan Williams - Men and Machines, from the Black Biker Series, 1983

Smithsonian American Art Museum

via Ordinary finds

Golden Eagle Nomads

The Golden Eagle Hunters of Mongolia

Photographer John Delaney travels to the remote reaches of Asia to document a dying Kazakh skill

...a Happy Valentine's Day... ☝

Tim Barber - KITTY CITY
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Abe Lincoln’s Life Face Mask

Abe Lincoln's Life Face Mask - Based on a photo by M. Spencer Green

Lopsided Lincoln

Ice

from the archives of John H. McNulty

silent companion

Angela Bacon-Kidwell

hat tip: FILE Magazine

Joachim Knill

quagmire (Polaroid 20x30)

Joachim Knill designed and built the world's largest portable instant film camera. His 20x30 Polaroids of "surreal installations" have a colorful, painterly quality to them that runs somewhat counter to what you would expect from this particular medium. His panoramas are decidedly more photographic, but no less interesting.

Although I enjoyed his work, it was the camera that hooked me.


















Joachim and his camera

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Toys on Roids

Toys on Roids - a set on Flickr

thanks to AubreyAudreyAlbert.

David Douglas Duncan's Picasso photos

Picasso, clad only in briefs and slippers, his bathrobe draped over one arm, poses with his Afghan hound Kabul on the front steps of Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins, 1959 or later.

David Douglas Duncan - Picasso (extensive collection of photographs of Picasso and his work)

via Nag on the Lake
by way of Dog Art Today

Sam

from the archives of John H. McNulty

Painting with ice and light

New Scientist:

The image, (above), is a frizion, and it was created by NASA scientist and artist Peter Wasilewski. Rather than painting on canvas like most artists, he creates his images with polarised light and ice.

To do this, Wasilewski takes a Petri dish of ice in the process of freezing, sandwiches it between two polarising filters and passes white light through. The first filter polarises the light, causing all the rays to vibrate in the same plane. Ice crystals split polarised light into two rays which travel at different velocities through the ice, so when the rays are recombined at the second polarising filter there is a phase difference between them. This causes interference, creating the startling colours in the image. The colours are determined not only by the lattice structure of the ice, but also by its thickness. By controlling the thickness, for example by varying the temperature of the surrounding water, Wasilewski produces a wide variety of different patterns.

See this photo gallery to find out more about how Wasilewski creates them.

Gerhard Richter at the National Portrait Gallery

Gilbert and George by Gerhard Richter, 1975

Photograph: National Portrait Gallery

In pictures: Gerhard Richter at the National Portrait Gallery

thanks to ut

Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light

Photographer Richard Nicholson presents Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light, a survey of London's remaining professional darkrooms.

Dead media?... or will there be an emergence of cottage industries catering to an adherence - and return - to the use of film? As we meet, someone has already acquired Polaroid's old equipment factory and seeks your support. (via)

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Cabinet cards

Oscar Wilde

e-l-i-s-e: Cabinet cards/Cabinet de photographes : The Notman Studio - Newsboy - Falk - Gilbert & Bacon - Thiele's - Napoleon Sarony

Cabinet card

Solargraph

Suspension Bridge Solargraph

photo: Justin Quinnell

If every picture tells a story, this one might make a novel. The six month long exposure compresses the time from December 17, 2007 to June 21, 2008 into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the remarkable image was recorded with a simple pinhole camera made from a drink can lined with a piece of photographic paper. The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon River Gorge in Bristol, UK emerges from the foreground, but rising and setting each day the Sun arcs overhead, tracing a glowing path through the sky. Cloud cover causes dark gaps in the daily Sun trails. In December, the Sun trails begin lower down and are short, corresponding to a time near the northern hemisphere’s winter solstice date. They grow longer and climb higher in the sky as the June 21st summer solstice approaches.

Baby Walden

First Digitally Scanned Photograph, 1957

Top 10 Incredible Early Firsts In Photography:

Technically, this is the very first digital photograph - all these years later, digital cameras are only just beginning to have the full capabilities of film cameras. Russell Kirsch was a computer pioneer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA when he developed the system by which a camera could be fed into a computer. The photo is of Kirsch’s three month old son Walden and it measured a mere 176×176 pixels. Baby Walden now works in communications for Intel.

Bill Brandt

Dylan Thomas

photo: Bill Brandt

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Perigee 2009

photo: CytecK

Tonight's perigee moon in photos

untitled

+ Chi +'s photostream (beautiful)

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