1. 21 Jan


    mpdrolet: From During and After Lucas Thorpe

    mpdrolet:

    From During and After

    Lucas Thorpe

     

  2. 17 Jan


    tuesday-johnson: ca. 1860-80’s, [studio tintype of a mock hanging] via Ebay

    tuesday-johnson:

    ca. 1860-80’s, [studio tintype of a mock hanging]

    via Ebay

     

  3. 16 Jan


    remerge: There are alot of people shooting conflict: Gaza, Afghanistan. Apparently Libya was a total free for all overrun by countless  photographers pulling up to the front lines to take pictures. The rebels even had a press office pretty much from the get-go. Maybe all conflict, maybe everything is one giant photo op now. Despite, or maybe because of, that how many of the photographs do you really remember? Of any of it? So many people take the same pictures over and over again. There’s nothing wrong with that, per se, but I dont want to read the same book over and over again, do you? So yeah, ad infinitum…..The picture above is from a series called “Inshallah” by the photographer Dima Gavrysh. Afghanistan, done differently. At least, in my opinion this group of pictures is some of the most personal, “different,” work I have seen from Afghanistan. It is very experiential. I get a feeling of what it is like to be over there from these pictures. But I’ll end on something that Dima has written about this work which sums it up nicely for me  ”I create a dark fairytale filled with my fears and dreams, based on my         fascination with the army’s strength and order, set on the front lines of what has become America’s longest running war in history. Mesmerized by the complexity of the Afghan chaos, I strive to better comprehend my personal relationship to these wars: two empires, two mentalities, same battlefield, twelve years apart.” Go check it out, here.

    remerge:

    There are alot of people shooting conflict: Gaza, Afghanistan. Apparently Libya was a total free for all overrun by countless  photographers pulling up to the front lines to take pictures. The rebels even had a press office pretty much from the get-go. Maybe all conflict, maybe everything is one giant photo op now. Despite, or maybe because of, that how many of the photographs do you really remember? Of any of it? So many people take the same pictures over and over again. There’s nothing wrong with that, per se, but I dont want to read the same book over and over again, do you?

    So yeah, ad infinitum…..The picture above is from a series called “Inshallah” by the photographer Dima Gavrysh. Afghanistan, done differently. At least, in my opinion this group of pictures is some of the most personal, “different,” work I have seen from Afghanistan. It is very experiential. I get a feeling of what it is like to be over there from these pictures. But I’ll end on something that Dima has written about this work which sums it up nicely for me

     ”I create a dark fairytale filled with my fears and dreams, based on my         fascination with the army’s strength and order, set on the front lines of what has become America’s longest running war in history. Mesmerized by the complexity of the Afghan chaos, I strive to better comprehend my personal relationship to these wars: two empires, two mentalities, same battlefield, twelve years apart.”

    Go check it out, here.

     

  4. 16 Jan


    jesuisperdu: ernest protasiewicz

    jesuisperdu:

    ernest protasiewicz

    (Source: ernestprotasiewicz, via allthethingswelove)

     

  5. 15 Jan


    mpdrolet: Jungjin Lee

    mpdrolet:

    Jungjin Lee

     

  6. 15 Jan


    mpdrolet: Carolyn Hampton

    mpdrolet:

    Carolyn Hampton

     

  7. 14 Jan


    mpdrolet: Ki-Dae Moon

    mpdrolet:

    Ki-Dae Moon

     

  8. 14 Jan


    allthethingswelove: (via http://andrewharlow.co/)

    allthethingswelove:

    (via http://andrewharlow.co/)

     

  9. 12 Jan


    mpdrolet: Ki-Dae Moon

    mpdrolet:

    Ki-Dae Moon

     

  10. 9 Jan


    photographsonthebrain: “The daguerreotypes below are from the studio of Matthew Brady, one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of “father of photojournalism”. The Library of Congress received the majority of the Brady daguerreotypes as a gift from the Army War College in 1920.  (via Decayed Daguerreotypes | The Public Domain Review)

    photographsonthebrain:

    “The daguerreotypes below are from the studio of Matthew Brady, one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of “father of photojournalism”. The Library of Congress received the majority of the Brady daguerreotypes as a gift from the Army War College in 1920. 

    (via Decayed Daguerreotypes | The Public Domain Review)