Meeting Florida's Seminoles Through Rediscovered Photos : The Picture Show. Hide caption The widow of Tigertail, a leader during the Second Seminole War.
Julian Dimock Collection/American Museum of Natural History Julian Dimock Collection/American Museum of Natural History Julian Dimock Collection/American Museum of Natural History Hide caption A boy demonstrates how to use a tote strap to carry a load. Julian Dimock Collection/American Museum of Natural History Julian Dimock Collection/American Museum of Natural History Hide caption Ingraham Charlie, a Seminole guide for the expedition, shows how to use ballgame sticks.
Black is Beautiful. About the Project: I started working on this personal project after reading an article in psychology today titled “Why are Black Women Less Physically Attractive than Other Women?”
I felt challenged and reminded of my childhood back in Rwanda. I grew up surrounded by strong and beautiful black women As a social storyteller, I felt compelled to explore this notion of beauty and race in America. I started taking photographs using an old medium format Yashica Mat camera. This project has reconnected me to my roots and reminded that beauty has no definition or boundaries. The subject in these photographs all immigrated to America.
These wonderful lives are thriving in America, despite cultural differences and language barriers. Audio slideshow: Across the two Sudans. Shrines and Temples of Nikkō.
Unknowing Susan Sontag's Regarding: Recutting with Georges Bataille Louis Kaplan University of Toronto louis.kaplan@utoronto.ca Real reading goes forward unknowing, it always opens a book like an unjustifiable cut in the supposed continuum of meaning.
Showcase of Beautiful Photography - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Sometimes, a picture can be powerful enough to be inspirational material all by itself.
To provide you with some inspiration for the upcoming week, this sunday we feature some truly beautiful and impressive images from talented artists and photographers worldwide. Whether in black and white or in colors, they are all related by a strong sense of composition and an emphasis on lightening and colors work. All images are linked to their sources, which you are encouraged to visit. Other work of the photographers we have featured here is certainly worth discovering as well.
Beautiful Photography DreamingAmazing sleeping beauty, where the beauty is actually also the beast, by Peter ツ. Blue Sky Far And Away Inside Capitol Hill The EndpointBy Jeannette Oerlemans. Ghosts of Auschwitz « How to be a Retronaut. Russia in color, a century ago. With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912.
In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.
The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Photo Gallery: Chernobyl 25 Years Later. Zohrepix - Photoblog.com. Cedric Delsaux’s Star Wars Fantasies. Mike Kamber on the Ethics of War Photography. By Lisa Wade, PhD, Dec 8, 2010, at 10:45 am The illuminating 3:49 minute video below, borrowed from Michael Shaw’s BagNews, features photographs taken by New York Times photojournalist Mike Kamber while he was embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq.
Narrating the images, Kamber discusses the censoring of his photos by the U.S. and the ethics of documentary photography. Michael Schmidt: 89/90 (9783940953438): Thomas Weski: Books: Reviews, Prices & more. A weekly cabinet of curiosities curated by John Foster. Accidental Mysteries is an online curiosity shop of extraordinary things, mined from the depths of the online world and brought to you each week by John Foster, a writer, designer and longtime collector of self-taught art and vernacular photography.
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog. Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.
The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Connecticut town on the sea. Farm auction. Looking into the Blind Spot. Error message The page you requested does not exist.
For your convenience, a search was performed using the query webcom show article. The Fortified Towers of Kaiping. The rambling villages of Kaiping are generally unremarkable until you come across a diaolou.
Rising up from the small villages like the proverbial sore thumbs, these century old fortified towers are a reminder of a significantly more dangerous times for the villagers. English Russia » Salmon Spawning.