Remembering India’s first woman photojournalist
Natalia Jimenez of msnbc.com wrote a nice piece for MSNBC’s PhotoBlog on Homai Vyarawalla, who is considered to be India’s first female photojournalist. The old photos accompanying it are quite good. Read it; love it.
From the Department of Things We Need to Do More Often, here’s the Iranian air force re-enacting Ayatollah Khomeini’s return from exile to Iran in 1979 with a cardboard cutout.
(Photo by Ruhollah Yazdani for the Mehr News Agency via Reuters, via MSNBC’s PhotoBlog.)
This is a photograph by Chinese artist Don Hong-Oai.
Wait, did I say “photograph”? What I meant to say was… no actually, this is totally a photograph. From Utata Sunday Salon’s bio by Greg Fallis:
Long Chin-San, who died in 1995 at the age of 104, had developed a style of photography based on the long tradition of landscape imagery in Chinese art. For centuries Chinese artists had been creating dramatic monochromatic landscapes using simple brushes and ink. These paintings weren’t intended to accurately depict nature, but to interpret nature’s emotional impact. …
Long Chin-San, who was born in 1891, had been trained in this classical tradition of painting. At some point in his long career, Long began to experiment in ways to translate that impressionistic style of art into photography. In keeping with the layered approach to scale, he developed a method of layering negatives to correspond with the three tiers of distance. Long taught his method to Don. Don, seeking to more closely emulate the traditional Chinese style, added calligraphy and his seal to the image.
Here’s a Flickr set of a bunch of other photos. Here are four other of my favorites: [1] [2] [3] [4].
Canadian photographer Todd McLellan took a bunch of gizmos apart into individual pieces and then captured the whole mess in a photo series called “Disassembly.” Fifteen photos and a making-of video are available on his site under the category “New Work.”
Here’s one of a flip clock falling apart.
This photo of the M54 highway in Krasnoyarsk krai, Russia, was taken by Ilya Naymushin for Reuters.
Pearl Harbor surprise: Photo of female firefighters wasn’t from Dec. 7
Bill Dedman on MSNBC’s Open Channel blog:
In the 70 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, a dramatic photo of female firefighters has been published many times in magazines, history books and online as a depiction of action on Dec. 7, 1941. We published it this past week on msnbc.com. Now, with the help of our readers, we’ve located one of the women, who says the photo was definitely not taken on that day.
Really awesome piece involving crowdsourcing, personal history, and politics.
This here is Rock of Ages #22, a photo by Edward Burtynsky of the Wells-Lamson Quarry in Barre, Vermont. I saw a print of it in the Nevada Museum of Art, but if you’re not lucky enough to have it at an art exhibition near you, it can be seen in his book Quarries.
How fucking Myst is this? The real world simply does not get any Mystier than this. Captivating piece.
From the new book “The Ruins of Detroit” by French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. Heartbreaking. (Click through for more photos by the pair.)
Today is the seventieth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. The Big Picture has a gallery of portraits of survivors, shots from ceremonies held in the past few days, and eleven photos taken the day of the attack. The above photo, from the Associated Press, is of the USS Arizona collapsing into the sea.
The whole set is definitely worth checking out.
For a fee of $5 for members and $10 for non-members, the Scottsdale Gun Club in Arizona will arrange a Yuletide photo op with Santa and a selection of automatic weapons valued at $170,000.
“It’s been really fun,” said Brooke Rodda, a spokesperson for the club. “We’ve had a tremendous response from the community.”
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The event isn’t attracting just gun enthusiasts: “It has a broader appeal from families to older people,” Rodda said.
I guess this appeals to me too, in that ironic appeal is still appeal.