Amos Chapple is a New Zealand photographer with Lonely Planet. Over the winter he visited Iran’s Kurdish region to photograph the near-vertical Palangan village. He has given his pictures exclusively to the Guardian’s Iran blog
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I am a big fan of the minimalist black and white images that have been coming back from NASA’s Cassini Orbiter, but I think the ultraviolet-light images are pretty cool too.
Make that two fans! Awesome stuff. More views through the UV lens coming later today, coincidentally.
These are beautiful! -Savy
radiolab reblogging npr is reason enough for a reblog, I say. (…and the pretty colours… and space)
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Cool As Fuck. Photo Credit: Matt Barnes
From his morning-time perch above the southbound lanes of Highway 85 in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena catches images of people on their way to work.
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Keizo Kitajima Captures the After-Hours Denizens of 1970s Tokyo
Busking musicians, streetwalkers and shop window mannequins bustle in Keizo Kitajima’s monochrome vision of Tokyo nightlife and its inhabitants. Greatly influenced by the teachings of Daido Moriyama at the legendary Japanese photographer’s Workshop school, Kitajima combined his raw approach with an aesthetic imperfection and Moriyama’s stylistic ‘misuse’ of the camera. “I tried to become a mechanical eye,” he explains. “Whether it’s to understand the systems of perception at work inside us, or to discover the components that dictate our sensitiveness, I’m convinced it’s better to reproduce our systems of sight than to observe the outside world.” Initially exhibited in 1979 at the Shinjuku based Camp Gallery, Kitajima’s unfiltered and graphic pictures challenged perceptions of what photography could be, and his unconventional attitude was amplified by an incredibly forward-thinking installation for the time. Calling on New York’s Pop Art movement, Kitajima pasted his work across the gallery walls, ceiling and floor. Celebrated with the Kimura Ihei Award in 1982, Kitajima has achieved cult status for his visceral imagery and has exhibited internationally at the likes of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. A monograph collating a series of 12 individual punk-inspired zines published once a week for the duration of the 1979 exhibition is released by Steidl later this month.
Claire Boucher (aka Grimes) shot by photographer Frederike Helwig
Yayoi Kusama, 82, arrives in London – leaving her native Japan for the first time in 12 years – to launch a retrospective at the Tate Modern called Love Arrives at the Earth Carrying with it a Tale of the Cosmos
Photoshoot for Interview… So, we’re soon going to see Sevigny star in a British TV miniseries set in Manchester; she’s playing a pre-op transgender assassin. In case you’re wondering, “pre-op” means real boobs + a prosthetic penis. Right.
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Slow Shutter Fireflies by Tsuneaki Hiramatsu
During a quiet night in rural Japan, photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu discovered a field and a forest aglow in a strange green light. Upon closer inspection, Hiramatsu saw thousands of fireflies illuminating the brush and the trees beyond. Fortunately for us, Hiramatsu had his Nikon handy, and captured a series of stills that expose the fireflies in all their natural glory. This collection of slow shutter and multi-exposure composites shows the tiny Lampyridae (also known as lighting bug or firefly) as it dances throughout the countryside. Truly magical work, Mr. Hiramatsu. [via digital-photo-blog]
Chicago, 1949, by Stanley Kubrick
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I’ve only seen The Man From London and The Turin Horse — both films blew me away so there’s no reason why I shouldn’t watch everything else he’s done.
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment
Open Culture:
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment is an 18-minute film produced in 1973 by Scholastic Magazines, Inc. and the International Center of Photography. It features a selection of Cartier-Bresson’s iconic photographs, along with rare commentary by the photographer himself.
Yes! Yes, yes, yes!
Occupy London vs the mounted police
Pix by Gerald Hayes, who nipped out of the office to take some shots of the nearby protest. The horses are magnificent.
Roman Polanski filming Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Grilled Lamb Heart, grilled treviso, fava bean hummus, ramp vinaigrette. (Taken with Instagram at American Grocery Restaurant)
