MonCoursPhoto: Le Mont Fuji s'est couronné... medievalbooks | Erik Kwakkel blogging about medieval manuscripts Amazing Photographs of London Underground in the 1970s-80s Photographer Bob Mazzer spent two decades commuting to work and back on the tube. As he travelled, he used his Leica M4 and his own unique perspective to capture Londoners, commuters and tourists as they journeyed through the capital's network of tunnels. Here is a small collection of his work, some of which was first shown in a GLC exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall in the 1980's. (Photos: Bob Mazzer, via Telegraph) vincent laforet's view of vegas makes sin city look like a motherboard feb 11, 2015 vincent laforet's view of vegas makes sin city look like a motherboard vincent laforet’s view of vegas makes sin city look like a giant motherboardall images © vincent laforet the hypnotizingly huge metropolis is pierced by an almost tangible electric current of LED lights vegas’ illuminated towers visualize as a surreal landscape of color and light little post-production work was required in making the result as striking as it appears LED lights emitting from the buildings create an incredibly vibrant glow the mass of lights photographed from above looks like a scene from a sci-fi film computer chip, or vegas city streets? nina azzarello I designboom
OPEN BAR – La British Library ouvre un million d’images au domaine public sur Flickr L'une des images ouvertes au domaine public. La nouvelle devrait réjouir les amateurs de livres anciens. La British Library a publié un million d'illustrations de livres datant des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles sur la plateforme de partage de photo Flickr, sous licence Creative Commons (CC), libre de droits. Un projet appelé The Mechanical Curator, rendu possible grâce à la numérisation de quelque 65 000 livres. Voici une sélection des illustrations : Une façon de mettre en valeur des images souvent laissées dans l'ombre des bibliothèques. Le site Gizmodo s'est amusé à recenser les 15 images les plus étranges de ce recueil d'illustrations. "Touching noses", dans The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade, de W. Tiré de The Middle Kingdom. Illustration de Through Masai Land, de Joseph Thomson. Signaler ce contenu comme inapproprié Cette entrée a été publiée dans Actualité.
Las 49 bibliotecas más alucinantes del mundo - El Placer de la Lectura Escrito por Robert Galbraith Robert Galbraith es un seudónimo de J. K. Rowling, la autora de la saga de Harry Potter y de Una vacante imprevista. La primera novela protagonizada... ‘La sublime locura de la revolución’ reúne el conjunto de artículos que conforman la crónica de unos sucesos que el autor vivió en persona: ... The Best Photography Books of 2013 by Maria Popova From Mongolia to Mars, by way of mesmerizing mines and Manhattan’s characters. “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted,” Susan Sontag wrote in her timeless meditation on photography nearly three decades before the age of Instagram and the selfie. Indeed, the photographic image has not only retained by amplified its power to move, to mesmerize, to usurp power. “Whether or not there is life on Mars now, there WILL be by the end of this century,” Arthur C. This Is Mars (public library) — a lavish visual atlas by French photographer, graphic designer and editor Xavier Barral, featuring 150 glorious ultra-high-resolution black-and-white images culled from the 30,000 photographs taken by NASA’s MRO, alongside essays by HiRISE telescope principal researcher Alfred S. At the end of this voyage, I have gathered here the most endemic landscapes. Originally featured in October.
Spectacular Images of Northern Lights Captured from Space Spread your love! Share this post if you like it: RejaneMode : Tatou qui présente un physique... Amazing Hand-Colored Photographs of Old Japan These amazing hand-colored photographs of old Japan give us a history lesson about what life was like in the late 1800's to early 1900's. As an isolationist country opening its doors to the outside world for the first time in more than 200 years, a truly astounding transformation took place and, as fate would have it, photography had just been invented. According to flickr user Yves Tennevin, the photographs are presumed to be taken by Adolfo Farsari, an Italian photographer who was based in Yokohama, Japan. Following a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, he became a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer. Farsari's photographic work was highly regarded, particularly his hand-colored portraits and landscapes, which he sold mostly to foreign residents and visitors to the country. His studio, the last notable foreign-owned studio in Japan, was one of the country's largest and most prolific commercial photographic firms.