Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been photographing for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy then digitally stacked the numerous photos to reveal shifts in color and shape reminiscent of painterly brush strokes that smeared the sky. More
Photographer We've only mentioned society portraitist Cecil Beaton in passing so far . Cecil was born in 1904 and after a patchy educa...
These superb photographs taken by the Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne (1870-1943) elevate the everyday into fine art. Missone’s artistry, his eye for composition, light and mood, encourage us to share his thoughts and emotions. Form takes over from subject matter and content. They are extraordinary pictorial photographs, as poetic as Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime Polaroids. … Continue reading "Extraordinary Photographs by Léonard Misonne"
A new book attempts to distance interpretations of her work from the details of her suicide.
Some of the earliest photos of Victorian women have come to light in a revealing album of prints from the pioneering days of photography. The set of pictures taken by Lady Clementina Hawarden, one of Britain's first female photographers, is set to fetch £150,000 at auction.
this post began when i came across images of Tasha Tudor, a children’s book illustrator whose nostalgic throwback lifestyle (she lived in a replica of a late 18th-century New England farmhouse)…
Given that her complete catalogue is composed almost entirely of work she produced as a student, the posthumous critical esteem for American photographer Francesca Woodman is astonishing. Unlike music or math, where precocious displays of talent are not uncommon, photography tends not to have prodigies. Woodman, who committed suicide in 1981 at age 22, is considered a rare exception. That she has achieved such status is all the more remarkable considering only a quarter of the approximately 800 images she produced—many of them self-portraits—have ever been seen by the public.
Wondering which of the 39 Oxford colleges are the best and most beautiful? Here are the 10 best Oxford colleges as picked by an Oxford alumna! Each and every one of Oxford's 39 colleges has
Pictorialism, an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality. The Pictorialist perspective was born in the late 1860s and held sway through the first decade of the 20th century. It approached the camera as a tool that, like the paintbrush and chisel, could be used to make an artistic statement. Thus photographs could have aesthetic value and be linked to the world of art expression. Constant Puyo, 1903 Constant Puyo, Apparition, 1910 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Adolph de Meyer, 1896 Adolph de Meyer, 1896 Adolph de Meyer, 1896 Adolph de Meyer, 1896 Baron Adolph De Meyer - The Cup, 1896 Baron Adolph De Meyer The Black Bowl by George Seeley, circa 1907 Portrait of Martine McCulloch by Gertrude Käsebier, 1910 Mary Pickford, 1917 by Nelson Evans Dolores, Vogue, May 1919 by Adolph de Meyer
I very rarely write about my pictures especially on my blog because I like it to be a visual diary of my interactions with the landscape but today I thought I would put down some thoughts on this particular group of images and others like them that convey an almost timeless and dreamlike state in na
Photographed by Sayaka Maruyama
the photographer Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865). She produced over 800 photographs from 1857-1864 before her sudden death,
I was tumbling through Tumblr, one of my favourite places on the internet to discover history's lesser-known muses and there, on page thirty-something of my browsing, I stopped at a photograph of an androgynous woman taken by Marianne Breslauer, a name unfamiliar to me. As I began googling her work,
Another beautiful lookbook from one of my favourite brands and homeware shops, this one is for autumn, with cosy knits, crisp white shirts and…
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Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilising innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid autochromes. The tableaux of his autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first colour photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. Demure ladies and … Continue reading "Alfonse Van Besten’s Dreamy Autochromes (1910-1915)"
The International Garden Photographer of the Year is one of the world’s premier competitions
this post began when i came across images of Tasha Tudor, a children’s book illustrator whose nostalgic throwback lifestyle (she lived in a replica of a late 18th-century New England farmhouse)…
Polish history teacher Pati Makowska uses old maps and historical books to find the amazing buildings then takes pictures to tell their story.
Ventage Young Woman
Wang Ji-Won in "Oh, My Ophelia" for Korean Vogue Girl April 2007 photographed by Oh Joong Seok
love this ! For many more unusual, beautiful and bizarre snapshots, see my 'peculiar snapshots' set. www.flickr.com/photos/peopleofplatt/sets/72157623805923609/
"Cockaignesque" by German photographer Helen Sobiralski is a lush photo series inspired by Baroque still-life paintings.
Happened upon this gorgeous editorial, so romantic ... featuring beautiful ivory lace, embroidery & flowing skirts ...julie hafstrom photographed by camilla akrans, styled by sissy vian for vogue chin
Concise illustrated history of women's fashion from 1900 to 1919. Dresses and styles from the Edwardian era of the 1900's, and post Edwardian 1910's
Broadway Actress Ione Bright c.1912 via Musetouch Visual Arts Magazine
When you point your camera at a random thing on the street, you usually don’t expect much. But in the vast sea of dull photos that fill your camera roll, one stands out. Call it a miracle, or a lovely surprise, but if you feel like the pic is superior in composition, style, lighting, and somewhat resembles a classical painting, it may be that you have just encountered “accidental renaissance.”
Philip Davies, an architectural historian, spent seven years trawling through the photographs, compiling the best 1,500 into a 558-page book entitled Lost England.
LONDON — Out there in the artistic ether is a flimsy Italian geometry notebook, its yellowing pages pasted over with a series of small, square-format photographs.
Explore Maude Fealy Postcard Gallery's 70 photos on Flickr!
Books 🎨📚
A photographic history of Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, takes in the artist's self-portraits, letters, pen and ink sketches and personal objects.
Born in the southwest of France in 1988 and passionate about beautiful photos, I very early specialized in urban exploration and architecture photography. This region, with its rich history, is full of wonders that have now been abandoned. It all started there, following in the footsteps of my mother who, a few years before me, had already begun to record this forgotten heritage. Since 2009, I have been traveling around Europe in search of forgotten pianos. This journey gives me the chance to visit and photograph unique abandoned places—from villas to palaces.
