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Vintage: Sweden in 1880s and 1890s

Vintage: Sweden in 1880s and 1890s

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Carl Curman (1833–1913) was a physician and a scientist. He is mainly known as a pioneer in his commitment in public health care, especially in bathing. He founded two public indoor baths in Stockholm and developed a minor outdoor bath in the fisherman village of Lysekil on the west coast into a high-society seaside resort. He was an associate professor…
Children of Abraham by Abbas

Children of Abraham by Abbas

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Children of Abraham presents 66 photographs of the monotheistic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, by renowned Magnum photographer Abbas. Since 1970 Abbas has documented through his camera lens the “political and social life of societies in conflict.” This exhibition is the culmination of over 13 years of research and travel by the artist to record religious practices and their manifestations…
Interview with Tintype photographer Christine Eadie

Interview with Tintype photographer Christine Eadie

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1. How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was around 11 I pulled apart my mother’s Kodak instamatic to see how the shutter worked. I ended up breaking the camera in the process. A friend then gave us an old Canon 35mm rangefinder but mum didn’t understand the manual settings. So I went to the library…
Biography: Surreal Architecture photographer Simon Marsden

Biography: Surreal Architecture photographer Simon Marsden

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Sir Simon Marsden (1 December 1948 – 22 January 2012) was an English photographer. In 1969 he went to work in London as an assistant to the Irish photographer Ruan O’Lochlainn, who specialised in film stills and record covers. O’Lochlainn’s wife, Jackie Mackay, was a master printer who had worked in New York with the portrait photographer Karsh, and Marsden…
Vintage: Manhattan Bridge Under Construction (New York, 1903-1909)

Vintage: Manhattan Bridge Under Construction (New York, 1903-1909)

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The Manhattan Bridge was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges. It has four vehicle lanes on the upper level, split between two roadways. The lower level has three lanes, four subway tracks, a walkway and a bikeway. The upper level, originally used for streetcars, has two lanes…
Chris Killip: Exhibition

Chris Killip: Exhibition

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Galerie f5,6 presents a selection of photographs made by Chris Killip (*1946, Douglas, Isle of Man) over the course of 25 years in Huddersfield, Tyneside, Wallsend and the Isle of Man. What came into being is the portrait of the British northeast and its inhabitants, which now serves as evidence of the areas recent past marked by economic decline and…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Dutch Windmills in 19th Century

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Dutch Windmills in 19th Century

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The first windmills were invented in antiquity, but it was the Dutch who really hit it off with this wooden giant. In a flat country, where the wind always blows, windmills sprouted from the ground like mushrooms. They were used to mill, saw, pump and press. The production of boards, paint, oil and paper, as well as bread and mustard…
Christopher Thomas: New York Sleeps

Christopher Thomas: New York Sleeps

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Imagine a New York devoid of people, its empty streets, bridges and waterways as silent and magnificent as an Ansel Adams landscape. This is the New York that Christopher Thomas reveals in duotone photographs that are at once haunting and nostalgic. Employing a large-format Polaroid camera, Thomas shot many of these images in the early hours of the day or…
20 Remarkable Architectural Photos Awarded in Monochrome Awards

20 Remarkable Architectural Photos Awarded in Monochrome Awards

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Monochrome Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers. Their mission is to celebrate monochrome visions and discover most amazing photographers from around the world. The 2014 Monochrome Awards received nearly 7000 submissions from 86 countries around the world. Check our selection of architectural black and white images awarded in 2014 edition of Monochrome Awards. Monochrome Photography…
Davide Palmisano: The Muay boxing

Davide Palmisano: The Muay boxing

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The Muay boxing is the national Thai sport, yet it remains a sport that has very few athletes, but not only in Asia. This is not simple or boxing fight, but a real combat, in which it is allowed to use indiscriminately hands, fists, feet, elbows, head or knees. And it is indeed necessary to exercise them all together, if…
Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS

Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS

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Archaic volcanic landscapes, arctic ice masses, meandering river canyons, moun­tain chains enveloped in mist, primordial rainforests and endless sand dunes – Genesis is a visual homage to the blue planet. In opulent black-and-white photo­graphs, the photographer Sebastião Salgado documents the stunning beauty and rich diversity of intact flora and fauna, as well as indigene peoples. His aesthetically impressive, large format…
Vintage: The Wolf Man (1941)

Vintage: The Wolf Man (1941)

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The Wolf Man (1941) is a mishmash of several wolf legends, with added ingredients. Siodmak stirs pentagrams, gypsies, silver bullets and the full moon together to create a robust myth. It owes little to established European traditions, but established a new set of cinematic rules which Hollywood lycanthropes would adhere to for decades. Set in a contemporary Wales (where no…
20 Striking Portraits from Monochrome Awards

20 Striking Portraits from Monochrome Awards

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Monochrome Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers. Their mission is to celebrate monochrome visions and discover most amazing photographers from around the world. The 2014 Monochrome Awards received nearly 7000 submissions from 86 countries around the world. Check our selection of black and white images awarded in Portrait category in 2014 edition of Mono Awards.…
Biography: Portrait photographer James Abbe

Biography: Portrait photographer James Abbe

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James Abbe (1883 – 1973) was an American photographer. Abbe had a remarkable talent for inspiring trust in stars and Lillian Gish convinced him to come to Italy in 1923 to work as a lighting consultant and still photographer for “The White Sister.” He closed his Broadway studio, abandoned his wife and children, and moved to Italy. He spent the…
Don McCullin: Retrospective

Don McCullin: Retrospective

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First published in 2001, this retrospective survey offers both an examination of Don McCullin’s photographic career as well as a record of half a century of international conflict. Coinciding with the photographer’s eightieth birthday, this expanded edition of Don McCullin serves as fitting homage to a photographer who dedicated his life to the front line in order to deliver compassionate…
Interview with Street photographer Keith Dannemiller

Interview with Street photographer Keith Dannemiller

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Keith Dannemiller was born in Akron, Ohio on May 27, 1949, and educated there in Catholic elementary and high schools. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee with a B.A. in Organic Chemistry. In 1976, after four years in San Francisco, he moved to Austin, Texas where he worked for The Texas Observer, Third Coast and Texas Monthly. While…
Marc Erwin Babej: Mask of Perfection

Marc Erwin Babej: Mask of Perfection

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Beauty as product? – What happens when our subjective perceptions of natural beauty are confronted with the plastic surgeon’s scientific, geometry-based standard of beauty? The women portrayed by Marc Erwin Babej are all in their Twenties and conform to perceptions of beauty in our current society. New York Cory plastic surgeon Dr. Maria M. LoTempio was given the assignment to…
Behind the Scenes: Vertigo (1958)

Behind the Scenes: Vertigo (1958)

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Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D’entre les morts by Boileau-Narcejac. The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John “Scottie” Ferguson. Scottie is forced into early retirement because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop acrophobia (an…
Cy DeCosse: Midnight Garden

Cy DeCosse: Midnight Garden

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Cy DeCosse’s flower photos have often been described as magical – and never more so than those in his Midnight Garden series. These are flowers few people ever see – blooms that open at dusk and, like the enchanted beings in fairy tales, disappear before morning. Cy has captured the evanescent beauty of eighteen of these little-known flowers and printed…