Tag: Photography
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. Smith & Mills 71 N Moore St, Tribeca, Manhattan The Great Georgiana 248 Dekalb Ave, Fort Greene, Brooklyn National 723 Fulton, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Ippudo […]
New York photographer Nate “Igor” Smith of Driven By Boredom has just ended his road trip, most of which he spent traveling along Route 66 with friends, friends who enjoy posing nude next to roadside attractions. Inspired by Americana photographs of John Margolies, Nate spent 31-days on the road and shot 67 rolls of film. One got got lost. So he […]
New York-based photographer Tod Seelie is back from… Where’ve you been, Tod? “In Portland, Oregon on a raft, in LA shooting bands, and then hiding out on a farm in Nebraska.” Welcome back. We’re excited, because his first photography book Bright Nights: Photographs of Another New York published by PRESTEL comes out later this month, and he’s having a solo show at […]
To create Pot Shots, their aptly-titled photo zine, Ryan Mungia and Jim Heimann simply drove around with their iPhones. Whenever they saw a cannabis dispensary, they’d snap a cell phone pic from the car, then keep driving. The photos are sparse and strictly documentarian, showing the dispensaries as they’d appear on any normal day. To hear Mungia tell it, […]
First things first: photographer Nick Brandt posed those dead, petrified birds and bats above before he took pictures of them. But everything else that happened to the animals was wrought by Lake Natron, a body of water in the north of Tanzania that kills its victims, then calcifies them. The lake’s deadly nature lies in […]
In the late 80s, legendary comic artist and sensualist R. Crumb wasn’t sure what the suburbs and malls of California looked like anymore, so he asked his friend “Stanley Something-or-other” to drive him around and take updated reference photos for backgrounds. TIME LightBox’s Eugene Reznik tracked acquired the rare photos of shitty parking lots, etc, and tracked down Crumb […]
Kenyan photographer and activist Boniface Mwangi arrived in New York this week to speak on a panel at the United Nations. While he was in town, we asked him about last week’s Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi and some of the photos he took while there. “You see these things on TV, and other countries–you […]
Someone on Tumblr is rendering iconic photographs in Play-Doh. You can find them at photographsrenderedinplaydoh.tumblr.com. They’re quiet doting and expressive. From Play-Doh remixes of Grace Jones’ mesmerizing Jean Paul Goude-stretched form to that irritating kid with the grenade by Diane Arbus, this ardent renderer appears to be on a roll and even takes requests! I just […]
British artist Mishka Henner stitched this together from hundreds of high resolution, publicly available satellite photographs of industrial farms in Texas. On the ground, Feedlots are difficult to document, with various ag-gag legislation around the US outlawing “unauthorized” photography of these gigantic breed/feed/kill imperiums as an illegal, even “terrorist” activity. No one really wants to see where […]
“We have something for you. You’re going to like it.” “What is it?… Oh? Oh!!! Uh oh.” When new media artist James George and tech-savvy photographer Alexander Porter popped the tiny appendage on my iPhone a few months ago for a test drive, I knew I was going to have too much fun with it. The #slyPhone is a single-mirror laser […]
