Photography

Rick Poynor|Essays

Collage Now, Part 2: Cut and Paste Culture

Cut-and-paste culture is booming and collage-making is rampant: paper-based, digital, and all points between.

Observed|Photos

From Dance Hall to Design Studio to Dance Hall

Jeremy M. Lange photographs the inaugural dance held in the restored barn that used to be his grandfather's design studio.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Keld Helmer-Petersen: Pioneer of Color

An accessible edition of Keld Helmer-Petersen’s 122 Colour Photographs, a landmark 1948 photobook.

Rob Walker|Essays

An Accidental Time Capsule

Snapshots of late-September 2001 signage reveal a tentative American moment.

Rick Poynor|Essays

David Maisel and the Apocalyptic Sublime

David Maisel’s photographs are visions of the Earth as we have never seen it full of beauty and terror.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

A Street Photographer of 19th Century London

Selections from the work of a largely unknown Nineteenth-century photographer named John Thomson.

Observed|Photos

The Documerica Project

DOCUMERICA was a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency from 1972-1977 in order to “capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities and everyday life in the 1970s”.

Observed|Collections

Flickr Collection of the Week: Auto Anthropology

Cars in their natural habitats — the Auto-Anthropology group on Flickr.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Alaska Yukon Gold Rush Era Photo Album

Accidental Mysteries for June 9, 2013 features a photo album from the Alaska Yukon gold rush era.

Observed|Books

The Olympic City, Documenting The Remains

Jon Pack and Gary Hustwit visted former Olympic host cities all over the world, documenting what remains — and what does not.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Hyperdocumented Sunset Strip

Using Google Street View Hyperlapse to revisit Ruscha’ Sunset Strip.

Observed|Collections

Flickr Collection of the Week: Tales From A Parallel Universe

How to describe the cryptic beauty of un-staged moments of perfection frozen in time? Welcome to “Tales From A Parallel Universe”.