Reads tagged with “photography”
Mesmerizing Microphotography of the Hairs of Different Animals Under Polarized Light
A technicolor serenade to the variousness of this world.
Women in Trees: Sweet and Subversive Vintage Photographs of Defiant Delight
The chance-anthropology of a secret tribe.
Edward Weston on the Most Fruitful Attitude Toward Life, Art, and Other People
“I feel towards persons as I do towards art, — constructively.”
Visionary Photographer Edward Weston on the Importance of Cross-Disciplinary Curiosity in Creative Work
“In this age of communication… who can be free from influence, — preconception? But — it all depends upon what one does with this cross-fertilization: — is it digested, or does it bring indigestion?”
Japanese Artist Ryota Kajita’s Otherworldly Photographs of Ice Formation in Alaska
A visual serenade to one of the most beautiful and seemingly miraculous phenomena of the physical universe.
The Unphotographable #1: A Desert Sunset in the American Southwest
Sometimes, a painting in words is worth a thousand pictures. I think about this more and more, in our compulsively visual culture, which increasingly reduces what we think and feel and see — who and what we are — to what can be photographed. I think of Susan Sontag, who called it “aesthetic consumerism” half a century before Instagram. In a small act of resistance, I offer The Unphotographable — every Saturday, a lovely image in words drawn from centuries of literature: passages transcendent and transportive, depicting landscapes and experiences radiant with beauty and feeling beyond what a visual image could convey.
The Other Great Gertrude-and-Alice Love Story: The Life and Legacy of Pioneering Photographer and Bicyclist Alice Austen
Quiet courage and improbable redemption under the sycamore tree.
The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon: John Adams Whipple and How the Birth of Astrophotography Married Immortality and Impermanence
A dual serenade to being and non-being, composed in glass, metal, and stardust.
Killed by Kindness: Virginia Woolf, the Art of Letters, the Birth and Death of Photography, and the Fate of Every Technology
An elegy for the triumph of commodity over creativity.
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