Tag: Photography
The New York City Department of Records has just released 30,000 more photographs to their online archive, particularly touting 187 new images taken by the NYPD’s Alien Squad in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The purpose of the Alien Squad was to monitor “potentially subversive organizations throughout the five boroughs.” Among them is a set of photos from […]
“I don’t really associate with urban explorers, but I think I do more than photography,” 2e says. It’s midnight, snowing a bit, and 2e is biking towards the abandoned warehouses in Greenpoint. Later that night, he’ll climb a smoke stack on top of the Domino Sugar Factory and poke around the Underbelly Project. But at […]
Here are some Polish prisoner tattoos. They were cut with razor blades, glass shards and sharpened paperclips. Then inked with burned rubber, charcoal and other shit. Then, after the convicts’ deaths, they were “extracted” from the corpses, stuck into jars of formaldehyde and stacked at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Then, photographed by Polish artist Katarzyna Mirczak. Then, loftily hypothesized […]
Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City is a real place. Judge Dredd, Total Recall, Blade Runner, etc… They all borrow from what is, essentially, the world’s biggest, most compact projects, which were finally demolished twenty years ago, after two failed attempts by the Chinese government in 1947 and 1963. Home to 40,000 people at its height, Kowloon Walled City was […]
Photographer Elegance Bratton’s new book Bound By Night is “a snapshot of the contemporary House Ballroom scene in America,” of the Femme Queens, Butch Queens, Sex Sirens, and Voguers, their lives and their battles, of the “underground society through which individuals can find family and fame.” Elegance Bratton starts at Vogue Knights in New York City (featured in ANIMAL’s short documentary […]
“Initially about 700 of the elderly returned,” National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig tells DAZED. “At first, the authorities declared them illegal residents and tried to have them removed, but then they realized that these people had lived there for their whole lives. There was no mobility in the former Soviet Union, so to generations of people, Chernobyl […]
Decisive moments by Michael Wolf are very punchy. Doug Rickard’s captures are sprawl like landscape paintings. There are dozens of other artists who sensitively scour the infinite passages of Google Street View for good screengrabs, but Rhizome has just reminded us of Jon Rafman and he is the best at this. Everyone does car accidents. Rafman’s car accident is […]
Sit back and ooh-ahh at these trippy, colorful macro photos of butterfly and moth wings by Linden Gledhill, a biochemist/photographer who’s also directed at least one really great music video. It’s enough to make want to bust out a Magic Eye book. Look at those patterns, maaaaan. […]
Tomas Van Houtryve, a photojournalist with the VII Photo agency, mounted his camera to a small drone he bought on Amazon and traveled the country photographing “the very sorts of gatherings that have become habitual targets for foreign air strikes—weddings, funerals, groups of people praying or exercising.” He also photographed prisons, oil fields and industrial […]
These are very beautiful photographs from Donigan Cumming’s very rare photobook The Stage (1991), unearthed by LightBox’s Eugene Reznik. There’s something off about them. Cumming — a Montreal-based installation artist, photographer, experimental documentary filmmaker, etc. — left the US for Canada in the ’70s in opposition to the Vietnam War, and he hated photojournalism. He spelled out […]
