Tag: Photography
Here are some classic vintage mugshots of “all round thieves,” “warehousebreakers” and “bad characters” from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums via the World’s Best Ever. Their general olde timey-ness is amusing, but the fanciful descriptions of their “marks” are fascinating: “Heart, clasped hands, Ture Love, Evelyn;” “extensively tattooed forearms and hands;” “8 dots tatt. left forearm;” “blue dot between […]
Luxo shares a name with and bears a striking resemblance to the reading lamp that starred in Pixar’s first feature and no acts as its de facto mascot. But while its animated counterpart bounces around purposelessly with an inflatable ball, this Korean-made robot moves with precision. And with good reason: by the time Luxo is […]
What with the recent arrest of Shawn Thomas, a photographer who was arrested and allegedly beaten for the non-crime of recording video of a police officer, it’s an opportune time for Photo District News to be releasing their photographer’s guide to the First Amendment. In the video above, National Press Photographers Association general counsel Mickey Osterreicher explains the […]
Shawn Thomas recorded the video above at the Utica Avenue 3/4 stop last Saturday. In it, we see a police officer standing on the platform with a calm civilian to whom he’s issued a summons. The clip proceeds without action for a few minutes, until Officer Efrain Rojas arrives. First, Rojas begins recording with his iPhone. […]
Photos of British urban explorer Lucinda Grange standing atop various tremendously high structures have been making the rounds lately, and though this photo of her relaxing on the edge of the Chrysler Building was taken last year, it’s too cool not to post. Here’s a quick video detailing some of her exploits. Logan Hicks pulled […]
“Put some Brooklyn on him!” was one of the first things I heard once the fights started Wednesday night at the Roseland Ballroom, a venue more famous for its music but one which has hosted its share of boxing matches over the years. The Roseland, originally opened in 1919 and at its current location at […]
No longer must every article about the National Security Agency be accompanied by the same, state-supplied image. The artist Trevor Paglen, commissioned by Creative Time Reports in partnership with The Intercept, rented a helicopter and took rare, hi-res aerial photos of the offices of the NSA, the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates American spy satellites, and the […]
Photographer Derek Ridgers never felt like a part of the crowd he made a name photographing. He was in his 20s, but he felt “too old” already. “I was working in an advertising agency and I’d just gone down to a few gigs and started photographing the bands,” he tells The Telegraph. “Then the people in […]
Photographer Tom Hunter documented his road trips from London to France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal in a auto-caravan of raver hippies in their bus, “Le Crowbar.” Hunter tells Dazed: I first took pictures of travellers around Europe in ’93, which was quite idyllic, and then it became a bit more manic […]
Photographer Alex Van Gelder shot these portraits in a slaughterhouse in Benin, West Africa. African butchers don’t use electric saws as Europeans do but cut up the meat by hand which produces a variety of styles. Shot at the open air market, some of the meat is still pink, not entirely dead. On view at Hauser & Wirth […]
