40 Must-See Photos From The Past. The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911.
It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to historical photography. Sometimes, one simple picture can tell you more about history than any story you might read or any document you might analyze. X-rays of flowers by Hugh Turvey. 19 perfectly camouflaged Animal Photos. Botanical Bombshells Get Their Bloom On. By isolating 150 flower species against white, and flooding them with light in the height of their blossom, for his recent book Flowers photographer Andrew Zuckerman sought to make individual "portraits" of the botanicals.
In order to include rare plants like the Darwin Star Orchid in his survey of blooms, the New York-based photographer enlisted the help of institutions like The New York Botanical Garden, the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., and Fairchild Tropical Garden in Florida. Shooting on site at these gardens was often necessary, Zuckerman said, with horticulturists providing cuttings for his mobile studio on location. It was the moment of peak bloom that interested him--the plant in its most "heroic" form--so timing was critical. 22 Stunning Optical illusion Photographs. A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh. Many powerful photographs have been made in the aftermath of the devastating collapse of a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
But one photo, by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter, has emerged as the most heart wrenching, capturing an entire country’s grief in a single image. Shahidul Alam, Bangladeshi photographer, writer and founder of Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography, said of the photo: “This image, while deeply disturbing, is also hauntingly beautiful. An embrace in death, its tenderness rises above the rubble to touch us where we are most vulnerable.
By making it personal, it refuses to let go. This is a photograph that will torment us in our dreams.