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Tag Archives: photography
In 1993, a convicted murderer was executed. His body was given to science, segmented, and photographed for medical research. In 2011, we used photography to put it back together.
Such is the introduction for 12:31, an honestly somewhat freaky series of photographs by Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott. They used long exposures and an animation of cadaver slices to add apparitions to abandoned scenes at night. Above is one of the results; click the image to see the rest.
From the official White House Flickr stream: Obama, Biden, Sec. Clinton, Adm. Mike Mullen and many others look on as the operation to capture OBL unfolded.
So much of this photo is mundane. It’s largely an ordinary office conference room — the table and the chairs look just as uncomfortable and awkward as the ones I’m used to, for example. But it’s also obviously not mundane. Great stuff.
Tourists take pictures on Miracle’s square with the leaning tower of Pisa, free of scaffoldings for the first time after 20 years of stabilization and restoration work, April 26, 2011.
Looks great. Click through the photo to see another shot, courtesy of MSNBC’s PhotoBlog.
Photographers recall Chernobyl’s first days
Photographers recall Chernobyl’s first days
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster will be Tuesday the 26th. Anna Melnichuk of the Associated Press wrote a piece today about the photographers who first went to the site after the event.
Wearing a lead protective suit and placing his cameras in lead boxes, photographer Igor Kostin made a terrifying and unauthorized trip to the Chernobyl danger zone just a few days after a nuclear power plant reactor exploded in the world’s worst atomic accident.
He came back home with nothing to show for his determination to document the crisis — the radiation was so high that all his shots turned out black.
How’s that for a hook?
“They counted the seconds for me: one, two, three … As they said ‘20’ I had to run down from the roof. It was the most contaminated place, with 1,500 Roentgen per hour. The deadly dose is 500 Roentgen,” Kostin told The Associated Press. “Fear came later.”
In 1989, photographer Michael Galinsky went on a road trip with a friend, taking shots at various shopping malls along the way. He’s currently running a fundraiser on Kickstarter to publish his Malls Across America project in an 80~ page book. TODAY.com posted a slideshow of twenty-five of the photos, and they’re as fabulous a window into the ’80s as you can possibly imagine.
- ‘Ili:
- The fashion
- ‘Ili:
- The hair
- ‘Ili:
- The logo
- ‘Ili:
- The cassette tapes
- Colin:
- The shorts.
- Colin:
- THE SHORTS
Awesome photo of cownose ray migration by Sandra Critelli, who has an online portfolio of marine life photography.
The Telegraph published an article on her and the scene in 2008.
Last week Monday would have been Andrei Tarkovsky’s 79th birthday, so in belated celebration check this shit out:
It appears that in the late 70’s, Michelangelo Antonioni gave Tarkovsky a Polariod camera and Tarkovsky went nuts over the thing, taking hundreds and hundreds of photos. Unsurprisingly, they’re gorgeous. I really recommend taking a look through the galleries linked below.
(Imagine what Tarkovsky would have done on Instagram.)
Poemas del río Wang’s gallery from June 2010 is the biggest cache I could find. Also has some nice anecdotes.
The website of the book Bright, bright day, about Tarkovsky’s photography, has a small gallery.
All of this via Toxico Cultura which has a few more photographs as well.
This is some Super Mario Galaxy shit right here, son.
Click through for more stereographic projections by Alexandre Duret.