Tag: Photography
So, this thing is supposed to “explore the spatial structures of Flickr tags” to “generate temporal city level maps,” which, okay, fine, whatever–but really it’s just a nice way to see photos from NYC (and a bunch of other cities) laid out on a map based on where they were taken. Yes, there are fancy […]
German photographer Bettina Flitner took portraits of clients at the brothel Paradise in Stuttgart, Germany. The men, aged 21 to 73, told her why they visited brothels. Their answers were quite frank and revealing. Christian, 23, forwarding merchant, single: Why I pay for sex? Women are often a pain in the ass. They stress me when […]
Photographer Gus Petro went to Manhattan and took some pictures. Then he went to the Grand Canyon and took some pictures. Then he photoshopped them together, and the results are very pretty. Take a look in the gallery. […]
Yesterday, hundreds of protesters gathered in Union Square — and thousands around the country — after George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. The protestors read passionate speeches, chanted “No justice, no peace!” and carried bags of Skittles and Arizona iced-tea, the only objects found on Martin at the […]
Photographer Kirk Crippens decided to use his month-long residency at Portland’s NewSpace Center for Photography to prove that the people of Portland are more than just the crunchy-granola-progressive-living tropes portrayed on Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s hit show Portlandia. His cleverly meta-titled photo series Portraitlandia feature such unexpected characters as a “beard champion,” “student welder,” “traditional storyteller and consultant […]
“When I started taking pictures there was this girl with nose ring and frizzy hair…” photographer Nacio Brown remembers. Between 1969 and 1973, he photographed street life on a single block in Berkeley. “There was an absolutely horrendous mortality rate among these kids. This scene was interesting, but it was toxic. They were having sex and smoking dope […]
There was one and only one photography magazine for photography in the Soviet Union — Soviet Photo. Admittedly, Soviet propaganda generally looks sweet. Amp up the Constructivist aesthetic over some tight floral pattern and that shit’s timeless to hommage over and over and over again — amirite, Shepard Fairey? But if you’re an amateur or professional […]
Sea creature photographer extraordinaire Alexander Semenov brings us a new Flickr set highlighting the majesty of his ever-dazzling muse, the jellyfish. This time, the jellyfish are floating in space. No, actually, Semenov shot them from below, with vibrant skies peering through remarkably clear waters. The results are surreal and resplendent. […]
Beginning on June 27th, the Transportation Security Administration started sharing their own hazy, shamelessly filtered photographs on Instagram. Their handle “tsablogteam” already boasts over 30,000 followers and has been posting photographs of all sorts of confiscated objects — guns, grenades, guns, knives, also guns. It’s nice to see the TSA getting in touch with their creative […]
In 1914, the fraternal society Knights of Pythias would meet in Philadelphia’s Hathorne Hall. After being left vacant for many years, it was recently taken over by the New York artist collective Rabid Hands for the Hidden City Festival. Its mysterious fraternal past inspired a building-wide art installation based heavily on the imagined history of another secret society. Knights of […]
