Sunday, 15 February 2015

About Time


Hiroshi Sugimoto (from his "Theaters" series)



Nicholas Nixon, "The Brown Sisters"
Nixon has been photographing the sisters every year since 1975
Terence Chang, "SFO (II)" 
Michael Kolster, "Law Street, Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, 2008 (above) and 2006 (below)"

“Eight Exposures at Twenty-minute Intervals of Midnight Sun in Smith Sound, 78° 20’ N. LAT [...]
 First exposure at 11 p.m., July 25, 1917; last at 1:20 a.m., July 26"
by Donald B. MacMillan (Class of 1898)

Michael Buholzer (Reuters), "A long exposure picture shows commuters walking on a platform after leaving a train of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) at the main station in Lucerne."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, "East Hampton, 1968"

Gregg Brown, "Fallen Hope (Accidental Double Exposure), 5/1/01 and 9/19/01"


Timed exposure of tracer anti-aircraft fire, Second World War
Elia Locard, St. Clair, New Zealand

Standard Hotel, New York


Sunday, 8 February 2015

Too True

"Post ten photographs that test plausibility, inviting you to believe them to be true, while causing you to suspect a stretching or playing with the truth"

Sally Mann (1989)

Roger Fenton, "Valley of the Shadow of Death" (1854)
See this essay (three parts) by Errol Morris

Creator Unknown


Robert Capa, "The Falling Soldier" (1936)


Twitter user "massSNAFU" (January 2014)
Photo originally from 2010


"China starts televising the sunrise on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog," The Daily Mail, Published online 16 January 2014

Original Photographer Unknown, Toronto (1937)

Published by HistoryPics with the caption:
"Two women, who wear shorts in public for the first time, draw male attention and cause a car accident! Toronto, 1937" 

Photographer unknown, "Soviet Beach Resort"

Photographer unknown, 1973
Published with the caption: "US Highway during 1973 oil crisis"


Photographer unknown, colourised by Rik Hoving