December 2010
8 posts
Architecture
I have been reading The Story of Architecture by Patrick Nuttgens and admiring the incredible buildings we mere humans have created. So when you get dragged under by how incredibly naive and shallow the masses are becoming around you these buildings are a bold reminder of what we are capable of when we set our minds to something.
Here are a few favourites <3
(my...
Evelyn McHale
May Day, 1947. Photograph by Richard Wiles.
“There’s a photograph in the book called The Leaper. It’s old, but it’s beautiful. From above the corpse of a woman who’d just leapt to her death. There’s blood around her head, like a halo… and her leg’s buckled underneath, her arm’s snapped like a twig, but her face is so serene, so at peace. And I think it’s because when she died, she could ...
O Winston Link - Hotshot Eastbound
Tono Stano "Sense" 1992
Henri Cartier Bresson
This man could quite possibly be my new favourite photographer.
I do not know HOW the hell i got through five years of art schools without him being mentioned to me. Christ on a bike he is unbelievable!
*”We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a...
Witness Photography - War Photojournalist James... →
Maurice Broomfield
50’s industrial documentary photographer. Click here to see his work
Iconic Photography
This Blog is almost certainly THE most interesting i have ever read in my internet based life.
It covers many amazing photographers and photographs which i had never seen or heard of but which have shocked and moved me dramatically on a Sunday morning.
Here are a couple of favourites (although i’m not sure favourite is the appropriate term)
Sergej Strunnikow’s portrait of Soviet...