Burning Man 2012 - In Focus. Out on the playa of Nevada's Black Rock Desert, more than 50,000 participants gathered last week to form Black Rock City, a temporary city that became the home of the 26th annual Burning Man Festival. Every year, participants from around the world descend on the playa -- performers, artists, free spirits, and more -- to form a self-reliant community, to dance, to express themselves and take in the spectacle of the festival. Reuters photographer Jim Urquhart spent the week on the playa, and returned with these photographs, taking us along on a virtual visit to Burning Man 2012. [40 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: The sun sets during the Burning Man 2012 "Fertility 2.0" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, on August 29, 2012.
Bingram Lai explores "Zonotopia and the Two Trees" during Burning Man 2012, on August 29, 2012. An aerial view of Black Rock City, the Burning Man 2012 campground in the Black Rock Desert, on August 30, 2012. Black and white new york. Woolworth West St., 1885 Herald Sq., 1888. 6th Ave. El. Terminal, 1892. Alfred Stieglitz. Winter, 1893. Broadway, 1894 Herald Sq., 1895 Lower Broadway, 1899. Police Parade, 1899. Tiffany’s, Union Sq., 1899. Getting a ticket, 1900 Easter, Fifth Avenue, 1900.One car visible, coming towards foreground. Hester St., Lower East Side, 1901. Flatiron, 1903. Broad St., 1904. Municipal Building under construction, 1904. The Belmont Coach, 1905, four horses. Easter, Fifth Ave., 1906. City Hall subway, 1907. Lower East Side, 1908. Herald Square, 1909. Automatic Vaudeville, Union Sq., 1910.
Downtown skyline with Singer Building., 1910. Downtown skyline with Woolworth Building., 1913. Birdseye, 1913, with artist’s enhancement. Federal Crowd Control, 1918. Times Square from New York Times Building., 1922. HMS Leviathan and Singer Building., 1923. Fifth Ave., 1924. Coney Island, 1928. Lower Broadway Tickertape, 1928. 1928. 1935 Philadelphia, just for fun. Chrysler Gargoyle, 1929. 42nd Street, 1929. Icarus, 1930. American Cities Pre-1950 – - PlogPlog Photo Blog.
Posted Jul 22, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare19 A photographic journey through American Cities, pre-1950. Chattanooga, Tenn. in time of war. Soldiers' tents and supply wagons beside the city building. 1864. Mathew Brady collection. (Courtesy of the National Archives) # Nashville, Tenn., from the statehouse, 1864. The ruins of Mills House and nearby buildings, Charleston, S.C. Shells of the buildings of Richmond, Va., silhouetted against a dark sky after the destruction by Confederates, 1865.
Store-lined street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1869. Panorama of Helena, Mont., in 1870. The weatherbeaten wharves between Piety and Desire Streets, New Orleans, La., August 1881. Bearded Irish clam diggers and a matronly companion on a wharf in Boston, 1882. Oyster fleet in Baltimore Harbor, Md., ca. 1885. Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two. A military parade down the main street of Phoenix, Ariz., ca. 1888. Panorama of Portland, Oreg., in 1890. Easter morning, 1900. 70 Photos That Will Take Your Breath Away.
We here at DPShots believe that the easiest way to learn photography is to learn it by example. Every now and then we come up with some amazing photography examples that take your breath away. This post is no different. We have collected some of the most amazing, most awesome and THE most beautiful photography we could ever get our hands on. This post will help a lot of budding photographers to see where they are headed. It shows what is possible with Photography and a bit of creative thinking. From wildlife to magic to a guy sleeping on the back of a buffalo, this post has photographs for all kinds of photographers to take inspiration from.
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Kry Love. 100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows. Everything but the Paper Cut: Eye-popping Ways Artists Use Paper. In the year since the Museum of Art and Design reopened in its new digs on Columbus Circle, they've been delivering consistently compelling shows--from punk-rock lace to radical knitting experiments. The newest, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife", opened last weekend and runs through April 4, 2010. The focus is paper--and the way contemporary artists have used paper itself as a medium, whether by cutting, tearing, burning, or shredding. In all, the show features 50 artists and a dozen installations made just for the show, including Andreas Kocks's Paperwork #701G (in the Beginning), seen above.
Here's a sampling of the other works on display: Mia Pearlman's Eddy: Ferry Staverman, A Space Odesey: A detail of a sprawling work by Andrew Scott Ross, Rocks and Rocks and Caves and Dreams: Lane Twitchell's Peaceable Kingdom (Evening Land): Béatrice Coron, WaterCity: Between the Lines, by Ariana Boussard-Reifel: A book with every single word cut out: BEST of BTS | photography by Angus R Shamal.
A self portrait of Stanley Kubrick with his daughter, Jack Nicholson and the crew @ the set of The Shining. A selection of some of the most awesome Behind-the-scenes shots I’ve seen from some famous movies found at aintitcool.com. Back when set designs were huge and hand made, when special effects where mechanic and photographic and film stars were risking their lives on the set. on the set of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis — the actress inside the Maria robot taking a breather. The Empire Strikes Back - filming the Crawl. Rebel Without A Cause — James Dean, Natalie Wood and director Nicholas Ray. Sesame Street Requiem for a Dream — Jennifer Connelly strapped into a SnorriCam. The Gate (1987) — Giant special effect set. © Craig Reardon The Birds (1961) — Tippi Hedren with Hitchcock. Rio Bravo — Hawks and Angie Dickinson set of Alien. Ghostbusters. Superman on the set of Mothra (1961) - special effects director Tsuburaya Eiji Dr.
Tron (1982) — David Warner and Bruce Boxleitner fuck around in costume. Silent World by Michael Kenna. Silent World by Michael Kenna. - StumbleUpon. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor. National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well.
National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from. Eruption of the Cordon del Caulle. Beluga whales in the arctic having fun. This is a streetcar in New Orleans traveling back towards The Quarter on St. This image captures almost 6 hours of climbing parties on Rainier going for the summit under starry skies. Russia, polar region of West Siberia, Tazovsky Peninsula. Pictures of times past: Photographs discovered in abandoned box give fascinating insight into 19th Century city life in Britain. By Rebecca Seales Published: 16:23 GMT, 30 March 2012 | Updated: 17:10 GMT, 30 March 2012 A curious photo archivist from Newcastle stumbled on an amazing treasure trove of street photographs which capture the city's Victorian residents going about their daily lives.
Aaron Guy, who works at Newcastle's Mining Institute, discovered the 300-image collection of early glass negatives after peering into a long-forgotten box. He was moving some old furniture for the Society of Antiquaries when the innocuous container caught his eye. Children gathered outside of the station hotel, Neville street watching a performance. Women's work: Two Newcastle matrons pass the time over some knitting by the city's Quayside, while children loiter nearby Mr Guy explained: 'The society were moving to a smaller building and were passing some of their belongings to other organisations. 'I was just being nosy really, peering into boxes, when I happened to spot that one contained some really old glass negatives.
Brent Stirton & Photojournalist. Creative photos by Chema Madoz | haha.nu - the lifestyle blogzine - StumbleUpon. Most Interesting Libraries of the World - StumbleUpon. The Royal library Black Diamond at the waterfront of Copenhagen owes its name to the black granite from Zimbabwe used for the facade of the building. The name was used by the public first and has been adapted officially later. Design by the Danish architects Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen. Photography by Mirage Bookmark Flickr.com. Simon Tong Photography - StumbleUpon. Captured: The Ruins of Detroit.
Posted Feb 07, 2011 Share This Gallery inShare850 Up and down Detroit’s streets, buildings stand abandoned and in ruin. French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city. Their book “The Ruins of Detroit“, a document of decaying buildings frozen in time, was published in December 2010.
From the photographers’ website: Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension. The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires. Photography appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state. William Livingstone House # Michigan Central Station # Atrium, Farwell Building # 18th floor dentist cabinet, David Broderick Tower # Bagley-Clifford Office of the National Bank of Detroit # Ballroom, American Hotel # Melted clock, Cass Technical High School # Detroit? Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images.
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Amazing-nature-corner-1366x768.jpg (JPEG Image, 1366x768 pixels) - Scaled (73%) 22 Incredible Photos of Faraway Places. Thailand Chances are you already know Steve McCurry as the man who took one of the most iconic photos of our time. It was of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl who's piercing green eyes told us her harrowing story. The image itself was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine and her face became famous as the cover photograph on their June 1985 issue. Beyond just that one photo, McCurry has shot over a million images spanning 35 years. More than anything, he is one of a few that has that amazing ability to capture stories of our shared human experience. As he says, “Most of my images are grounded in people. Looking through his large body of work, we get to experience fantastic faraway places we can only dream about visiting.
Afghanistan Sri Lanka Yemen Tibet Cambodia India Burma Eastman Kodak let McCurry shoot the last ever produced roll of Kodachrome transparency film. Steve McCurry. Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee. (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes.
Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. Laramee’s next show will be in April of 2012 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal. New Underwater Ink Photographs by Alberto Seveso. Over the past two years or so there’s been no shortage of photography and short films featuring the sensuous curls of ink plumes dispersing underwater. Yet nobody comes close to the master, Italian photographer Alberto Seveso (previously here and here) who creates impressive underwater landscapes so rich in detail and color it makes me want to swim through my monitor. See more from his new series, a due Colori. Shaul Schwarz. ART DIRECTION: INSTRUMENTS FROM INSIDE on the Behance Network. 877e2e8b216a52b9bfe2edf40ebdd861.jpg (JPEG Image, 806x850 pixels) - Scaled (75%) Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Four Seasons Hotel - Bora Bora Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer, a lake just South of the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Marble Caves, Chile Chico, Chile The Gardens at Marqueyssac Ice Canyon - Greenland Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia Valley of the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada Multnomah Falls, Oregon Seljalandsfoss Waterfall on the South Coast of Iceland Petra - Jordan (at night) Verdon, Provence, France Wineglass Bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia Norway Alesund Birdseye of City Benteng Chittorgarh, India Riomaggiore, Italy Keukenhof Gardens - Netherlands. Sky Lantern Festival - Taiwan. Mount Roraima - Venezuela. Seychelles East Iceland. Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. New York City.