Ruby

The Maynard Parker Collection

2010-09-10T15:45:00.000-07:00

"Maynard L. Parker (1901–1976) was a Los Angeles–based architectural and garden photographer who contributed images to many of the nation’s premiere home design publications. Born and raised in Vermont, Parker first traveled cross country to Southern California in 1923.By 1942, Parker had come to the attention of Elizabeth Gordon, legendary editor of House Beautiful, and thus began an important affiliation that lasted well into the 1960s."
From: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=3970

Adam Magyar

2010-09-05T11:30:00.000-07:00

Squares Series

Stainless Series

http://www.magyaradam.com/

Jake Stangel

2010-07-14T08:18:00.000-07:00

http://jakestangel.com/

Hong Hao

2010-06-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.chinesecontemporary.com/hong_hao.htm

Andreas Ren

2010-06-26T15:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.a-ren.de/

Michael Schnabel's Cages

2010-06-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.michaelschnabel.com/

Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Jump

2010-03-15T20:24:00.000-07:00

"Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, seeks to surpass limits that have existed for 50 years. Felix Baumgartner will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to 120,000 feet and attempt a freefall jump targeted to reach – for the first time in history – supersonic speeds". From: http://www.redbullstratos.com/

NYT article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/16tier.html

Marcel Dzama at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

2010-02-24T09:51:00.000-08:00

Saw Marcel Dzama's show today. Really fantastic!
http://www.richardhellergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=3

Alex Prager

2010-02-02T19:01:00.000-08:00

http://www.alexprager.com/

Verner Panton Online Photo Archive

2010-01-31T08:59:00.000-08:00

From Wiki: Verner Panton (13 February 1926 – 5 September 1998) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century; as of 2004, Panton's most well-known furniture models are still in production (at Vitra, among others).

Panton was trained as an architectural engineer in Odense; next, he studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in Copenhagen, graduating in 1951. During the first two years of his career, 1950-1952, he worked at the architectural practice of Arne Jacobsen, another Danish architect and furniture designer. Panton turned out to be an "enfant terrible" and he started his own design and architectural office. He became well known for his innovative architectural proposals, including a collapsible house (1955), the Cardboard House and the Plastic House (1960). Near the end of the 1950s, his chair designs became more and more unconventional, with no legs or discernible back. In 1960 Panton was the designer of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair. The Stacking chair or S chair, which would become his most famous and mass-produced design.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Verner Panton experimented with designing entire environments: radical and psychedelic interiors that were an ensemble of his curved furniture, wall upholstering, textiles and lighting. He is best known for the design of a German boats interior, now a famous museum. He is also known for a hotel in Europe that utilized circular patterns and cylindrical furniture.

More really great photos here: http://www.verner-panton.com/
and here: http://www.vernerpanton.com/

2010-01-29T20:12:00.001-08:00

Watch the other parts...

Julia Stoess' Insect Models

2010-01-22T12:35:00.000-08:00

http://www.insektenmodelle.de/en/warum.html

Phyllopteryx taeniolatus

2010-01-06T14:09:00.000-08:00

From Life, BBC One
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lbpcy

Nicholas Hance McElroy

2010-01-06T11:48:00.000-08:00

http://nhmcelroy.com/home.html

Scott Conarroe

2010-01-05T01:03:00.000-08:00

http://www.scottconarroe.com/menu.html

Stacy Arezou Mehrfar

2009-12-18T12:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.stacymehrfar.com/#/one/american%20palimpsests/2

Etienne Jules Marey

2009-12-01T18:49:00.000-08:00

From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Jules_Marey
Étienne-Jules Marey (March 5, 1830 – May 21, 1904) was a French scientist and chronophotographer, born in Beaune, France. His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of labor photography.
Marey found a way to record several phases of movements in one photo. He started by studying how blood moves in the body. Then he shifted to analyzing heart beats, respiration, muscles (myography), and movement of the body. To aid his studies he developed many instruments for precise measurements. For example, he was successful in selling an instrument called Sphygmographe to measure the pulse. In 1869 Marey constructed a very delicate artificial insect to show how an insect flies and to demonstrate the figure-8 shape it produced during movement of its wings. Then he became fascinated by movements of air and started to study bigger flying animals, like birds. He adopted and further developed animated photography into a separate field of chronophotography in the 1880s. His revolutionary idea was to record several phases of movement on one photographic surface. In 1890 he published a substantial volume entitled Le Vol des Oiseaux (“The Flight of Birds”), richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and diagrams. He also created stunningly precise sculptures of various flying birds. He published La Machine Animale in 1873. The English photographer Eadweard Muybridge carried out his "Photographic Investigation" to prove that Marey was right when he wrote that a galloping horse for a brief moment had all four hooves off the ground.
Marey's chronophotographic gun was made in 1882. The instrument was capable of taking 12 consecutive frames a second (all the frames were recorded on the same picture). Using these pictures he studied horses, birds, dogs, sheep, donkeys, elephants, fish, microscopic creatures, molluscs, insects, reptiles, etc. Marey also conducted the famous study about cats landing always on their feet.
Marey also made movies. They were at a high speed (60 images per second) and of excellent image quality. His research on how to capture and display moving images helped the emerging field of cinematography.

Matt Logue's Empty L.A.

2009-12-01T07:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.mlogue.com/photography/page.php?id=2
Similar to:
http://rubyjaz.blogspot.com/2009/07/masataka-nakano-tokyo-nobody.html

Magnus Larsson

2009-12-01T07:27:00.001-08:00

http://www.ted.com/speakers/magnus_larsson.html

Guido Mocafico

2009-11-29T18:48:00.000-08:00

http://www.guidomocafico.com/p.html

Adrian Ghenie

2009-11-29T17:11:00.000-08:00

http://www.plan-b.ro/index.php?/adrian-ghenie/

Shaun Irving's Pinhole Cameratruck

2009-11-26T10:58:00.000-08:00

http://www.cameratruck.net/Site/Landing.html

Thanks D!

Me

2009-11-23T12:35:00.000-08:00

My other blog:
http://jasmine-cady.blogspot.com/

Jesse Chehak

2009-11-22T16:04:00.000-08:00

http://jessechehak.com/

Astrid Kruse Jensen

2009-11-22T14:02:00.000-08:00

http://www.astridkrusejensen.com/

Andrew Moore

2009-11-22T13:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.andrewlmoore.com/index.php

Snow dive

2009-11-17T11:47:00.000-08:00

Thanks G.

Emily Shur

2009-11-15T14:26:00.000-08:00

http://www.emilyshur.com/

Sir David Attenborough

2009-11-15T14:21:00.000-08:00

Still my favorite Attenborough clip.

Bill Moyers - PBS Online Archive

2009-11-05T19:55:00.000-08:00

PBS has a number of his shows archived online. Watch these interviews:

Susan Sontag http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/archives/sontag_vid.html

Maurice Sendak http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/archives/sendak/watch.html

W.S. Merwin http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06262009/watch.html

Photographing Chicken Embryos

2009-10-31T13:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov04macro/mlchicken.html

Liza Faktor

2009-10-27T15:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.lizafaktor.com/

Sam Taylor

2009-10-21T15:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.whitecube.com/artists/taylorwood/

Maurice B

2009-10-18T15:38:00.000-07:00

Vince and I have been sorting through his old family photographs. His dad was a fantastic photographer. Vince's mom, Madeleine pictured above.

Maissa Toulet

2009-10-18T12:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.maissatoulet.fr/index.html

Giant Marionettes in Berlin

2009-10-15T08:00:00.000-07:00

From The Big Picture:
Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France's Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled "The Berlin Reunion". Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by "land and sea monsters". The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult - but successful - expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/the_berlin_reunion.html

Adam Bartos

2009-10-13T15:32:00.001-07:00

http://adambartos.com/Home.html

Felix Odell

2009-10-13T15:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.felixodell.com/

Mathew Scott

2009-10-09T10:01:00.000-07:00

http://mathewscott.com/

Yosigo

2009-10-05T06:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.yosigo.es/photos/index.php?/series/playas/

John Hinde's Holiday Camp Postcards

2009-10-04T16:32:00.000-07:00

Butlin’s Holiday Camps are a unique British institution conceived by Billy Butlin for post-war Britain. He dreamt of a holiday centre for the great mass of working-class families, where they could have a good time irrespective of the unreliable British weather. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the photographer, innovator and entrepreneur John Hinde, a key figure in the development of the colour photograph as a postcard, set about recording the ‘social revolution’ that was Butlin’s. Hinde’s postcards not only provide a valuable documentation of the Butlin's phenomenon, but an account of the rise of leisure society in post war Britain. Set apart from the more romantic, black and white documentary images of Britain at that time, these images have been overlooked by the history of photography...
Text from Ffotogallery:
http://www.ffotogallery.org/exhibition.php?ex_id=310&p=20

From Wiki on John Hinde:
John Wilfrid Hinde (1916-1998) was an English photographer whose idealistic and nostalgic style influenced the art of postcard photography and was widely known for his meticulously planned shoots. Born in Somerset, England, his interest in colour photography arose during the 1940s. From the later half of the 1940s to the middle half of the 1950s, he entered the circus life, where he met his future wife. However, he soon returned to photography and, in 1956, he left the circus and founded John Hinde Ltd. in Dublin to produce and distribute his colour pictures of Ireland. Hinde's most famous work is that of the Butlin's Holiday Camps...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinde_%28photographer%29

More information on Butlin's camps and John Hide here:
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/05/theory-blown-up-out-of-all-proportion.html

Hans Van Der Meer

2009-10-04T15:42:00.001-07:00

http://www.hansvandermeer.nl/

Simon Roberts

2009-10-04T14:49:00.000-07:00

More from Karin Muller

2009-09-29T06:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.karinapolloniamueller.com/htmlcont/onedge_site_01.html

Ta Yang Hsu on Flickr

2009-09-27T16:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taytoy/

Guy Sargent

2009-09-21T17:05:00.001-07:00

http://www.photography-now.net/guy_sargent/

Vintage Mug Shots

2009-09-20T17:58:00.000-07:00

More here: http://www.hht.net.au/discover/highlights/from_the_loft
and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leastwanted/

Filip Dujardin's Fictional Buildings

2009-09-10T18:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.filipdujardin.be/

The Thanatos Archive

2009-09-03T14:14:00.000-07:00

This Flickr photstream and blog features really cool and unusual 19th century photographs, including some early postmortem photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thanatosdotnet/
http://thanatos.net/archive/

Philippe Jusforgues

2009-09-02T20:37:00.000-07:00

http://www.philippejusforgues.com/index.html

Vintage Printable

2009-08-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

Above: Educational genetics prints
A great collection of vintage (mostly pre-1922) prints: http://vintageprintable.com/wordpress/about/

Mary Agnes Hoffmaster Noggle

2009-08-15T15:08:00.000-07:00

My great great great great grandmother, Mary Agnes Hoffmaster Noggle.

Flickr Favorites

2009-08-12T20:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ii1/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisascheer/

Jessica Todd Harper Photography

2009-08-10T21:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.jessicatoddharper.com/

Annie Leibovitz - Mad Men Shoot

2009-08-08T23:18:00.000-07:00

Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/09/mad-men200909?currentPage=1

Jorge Diezma's Oil Paintings

2009-08-04T00:00:00.000-07:00

http://www.jorgediezma.com/index.html

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture

2009-08-03T23:16:00.000-07:00

Charles Lucian, 1803-1857
American ornithology, or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States.

Images above are from the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture. The collection is an electronic resource for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/

The Road Trailer

2009-08-03T13:27:00.000-07:00

I'm looking forward to this but it looks like the plot diverges significantly from the book. Release date-October 16th.

Ted Talks - The Design Genius of Charles + Ray Eames

2009-08-03T09:55:00.000-07:00

Hin Chua Photography

2009-08-01T23:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.hinius.net/index.html

Rebecca Sittler Schrock Photography

2009-07-30T17:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.rebeccasittler.com/

Tierney Gearon's Double Exposures

2009-07-22T18:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.phillipsdepury.com/exhibitions.aspx?sn=EX020109

The Welcome Collection - Exquisite Bodies

2009-07-17T11:53:00.000-07:00

The Welcome Collection has a wonderful online image gallery and two fantastic videos on anatomical models.
From the museum website:
"In the 19th century, despite the best efforts of body snatchers, the demand from medical schools for fresh cadavers far outstripped the supply. One solution to this gruesome problem came in the form of lifelike wax models. These models often took the form of alluring female figures that could be stripped and split into different sections. Other models were more macabre, showing the body ravaged by 'social diseases' such as venereal disease, tuberculosis and alcohol and drug addiction. With their capacity to titillate as well as educate, anatomical models became sought-after curiosities; displayed not only in dissecting rooms but also in sideshows and the curiosity cabinets of wealthy Victorian gentlemen. For a small admission fee, visitors seeking an unusual afternoon's entertainment could visit displays of these strange dolls in London, Paris, Brussels and Barcelona. This exhibition explores the forgotten history of the anatomical model, which with its unique combination of serious science and fairground horror provides a rare insight into 19th-century beliefs about the body."

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/Exquisite-Bodies/index.htm

Masataka Nakano, Tokyo Nobody

2009-07-16T17:11:00.000-07:00

Masataka Nakano takes photographs of Tokyo street scenes without people. Lovely stuff.
http://www.artunlimited.co.jp/nakano/index.html

Guido Castagnoli Photography

2009-07-15T12:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.guidocastagnoli.com/

Flickr Favorites

2009-07-11T05:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chillhiro/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmuz/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marmod8/

Curio Books For Children

2009-07-10T21:10:00.001-07:00

A lovely Japanese website devoted to vintage children's books.
http://www.lab-curio.com/book/stockA-C.html

Richard Mosse Photography

2009-07-09T21:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.richardmosse.com/photography.php

Raimond Wouda Photography

2009-07-09T14:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.raimondwouda.com

Flickr Favorites

2009-07-08T21:46:00.000-07:00

Chuck Patch
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuckp

The Nakagin Capsule Tower

2009-07-06T19:18:00.000-07:00

From The New York Times
Future Vision Banished to the Past
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: July 6, 2009
TOKYO — How old does a building have to be before we appreciate its value? And when does its cultural importance trump practical considerations? Composed of 140 pods, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo has fallen into disrepair, with leaks and maintenance problems. Those are the questions that instantly come to mind over the likely destruction of Kisho Kurokawa’s historic Nakagin Capsule Tower. A rare built example of Japanese Metabolism, a movement whose fantastic urban visions became emblems of the country’s postwar cultural resurgence, the 1972 Capsule Tower is in a decrepit state. Its residents, tired of living in squalid, cramped conditions, voted two years ago to demolish it and are now searching for a developer to replace it with a bigger, more modern tower. That the building is still standing has more to do with the current financial malaise than with an understanding of its historical worth. Yet for many of us who believe that the way we treat our cultural patrimony is a fair measure of how enlightened we are as a society, the building’s demolition would be a bitter loss. The Capsule Tower is not only gorgeous architecture; like all great buildings, it is the crystallization of a far-reaching cultural ideal. Its existence also stands as a powerful reminder of paths not taken, of the possibility of worlds shaped by different sets of values. Founded by a loose-knit group of architects at the end of the 1950s, the Metabolist movement sought to create flexible urban models for a rapidly changing society. Floating cities. Cities inspired by oil platforms. Buildings that resembled strands of DNA. Such proposals reflected Japan’s transformation from a rural to a modern society. But they also reflected more universal trends, like social dislocation and the fragmentation of the traditional family, influencing generations of architects from London to Moscow. Inside, each apartment is as compact as a space capsule. A wall of appliances and cabinets is built into one side, including a kitchen stove, a refrigerator, a television and a tape deck. A bathroom unit, about the size of an airplane lavatory, is set into an opposite corner. A big porthole window dominates the far end of the room, with a bed tucked underneath. Part of the design’s appeal is voyeuristic. The portholes evoke gigantic peepholes. Their enormous size, coupled with the small scale of the rooms, exposes the entire apartment to the city outside. Many of the midlevel units look directly onto an elevated freeway, so you are almost face to face with people in passing cars. (On my first visit there, a tenant told me that during rush hour, drivers stuck in traffic often point or wave at residents.) But the project’s lasting importance has more to do with its structural innovations, and how they reflect the Metabolists’ views on the evolution of cities. Each of the concrete capsules was assembled in a factory, including details like carpeting and bathroom fixtures. They were then shipped to the site and bolted, one by one, onto the concrete and steel cores that housed the building’s elevators, stairs and mechanical systems. In theory, more capsules could be plugged in or removed whenever needed. The idea was to create a completely flexible system, one that could be adapted to the needs of a fast-paced, constantly changing society. The building became a symbol of Japan’s technological ambitions, as well as of the increasingly nomadic existence of the white-collar worker. No one doubts how difficult it would be to revive that vision today. The building was never as flexible in reality as it was in theory: adding and removing the capsules was prohibitively expensive. And the capsule notion itself was obviously limited, since it didn’t account for the possibility of sharing space with others. It hasn’t helped, too, that the lack of regular maintenance has taken a severe toll on the structure — and on the few remaining tenants...
Continue reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/arts/design/07capsule.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

House of the Future, 1957

2009-07-06T19:01:00.000-07:00

Bas Princen Photography

2009-07-05T23:38:00.000-07:00

http://www.vankranendonk.nl/artists/index.html

George Parthen

2009-07-05T23:03:00.000-07:00

http://www.georgparthen.de/works.php

Mona Kuhn's Nudes

2009-07-05T14:42:00.001-07:00

http://www.monakuhn.com/

Liz Kuball

2009-07-05T10:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.lizkuball.com/

Flickr Favorites

2009-07-04T17:23:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyperspace/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/renepiirkop/

Beatrix Reinhardt

2009-07-04T00:11:00.000-07:00

http://beatrixreinhardt.com/

Henrique Oliveira

2009-07-03T22:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.henriqueoliveira.com/tridimensionais.html

Visual Acoustics: The Modernism Of Julias Shulman

2009-07-03T00:25:00.001-07:00

"Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics explores the monumental career of 98-year-old architectural photographer, Julius Shulman. Populating his photos with human models and striking landscapes, Shulman combined the organic with the synthetic, melding nature with revolutionary urban design. The resulting images helped to shape the careers of some of the greatest architects of the 20th Century, with Shulman documenting the work of Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, and many others.Taking its aesthetic cues from Shulman’s own sensual and nuanced photography, the film’s narrative is built from a blend of Shulman’s own images as well as in depth interviews..."

http://www.juliusshulmanfilm.com/

Anatomical Theatre: The Body, Disease, and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World

2009-07-02T22:57:00.000-07:00

From the Anatomical Theatre website:
"Anatomical Theatre is a photographic exhibition documenting artifacts collected by and exhibited in medical museums throughout Europe and the United States. The objects in these photos range from preserved human remains to models made from ivory, wax, and papier mâché. The artifacts span from the 16th Century to the 20th, and include examples from a wide range of countries, artists, and preparators. The photographs in this exhibition were taken by Joanna Ebenstein, a New York-based photographer and designer, on the course of a one-month pilgrimage to the famed medical museums of the Western World. On the course of the trip, she visited museums in England, Scotland, Hungary, Italy, Austria, The Netherlands, and the United States at each, she interviewed curators or keepers, and photographed both behind-the-scenes and in the museum exhibit areas."

http://www.astropop.com/anatomical/

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson

2009-07-02T21:51:00.000-07:00

Above: The Farnsworth House

From Wikipedia: The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Chicago's downtown on a 60-acre (240,000 m2) estate site adjoining the Fox River south of the city of Plano, Illinois. The steel and glass house was commissioned by Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a prominent Chicago-based nephrologist, as a place where she could enjoy nature and engage in her hobbies, playing the violin, translating poetry, and enjoying nature. Mies created for her a 1,500-square-foot (140 m2) house that is widely recognized as an iconic masterpiece of modernist architecture. The home was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006, after joining the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[4] The house is currently operated as a house museum by the historic preservation group, Landmarks Illinois.
http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/

Above: The Glass House

From Wikipedia: The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence and is a masterpiece in the use of glass. It was an important and influential project for Johnson and his associate Richard Foster, and for modern architecture. The building is an essay in minimal structure, geometry, proportion, and the effects of transparency and reflection.
http://philipjohnsonglasshouse.org/

Ward Roberts

2009-07-02T18:21:00.001-07:00

http://www.wardrobertsphoto.com/

Tape Cassette Inserts Flickr Set

2009-07-02T04:59:00.001-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubru/sets/72157604683673651/

The Selby

2009-07-01T21:05:00.000-07:00

Above: from Michael Stipe's stuff.
The Selby features photographs, paintings and videos of interesting people and their spaces.
http://www.theselby.com/index2.html

Kelly Neal's Still Lifes

2009-06-30T20:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.kellynealphoto.com/index.htm

Lady Georgiana Berkeley

2009-06-29T23:32:00.000-07:00

"Berkeley was born in 1831 to a spectacularly wealthy and powerful family (Berkeley square in London is named after them). Apparently, according to the introduction, little is known about the details of her life – She married in 1877, well after the completion of this album, to Sidney Atherley, who died shortly afterwards. Berkeley lived on until 1919, surviving all of her immediate family members. The images themselves, constructed between 1865 and 1871, when it appears she lost interest in the project, use photographs that seem to have been taken by professional and salon photographers and that Berkeley reappropriated to suit her needs. Often, figures are cut out of their backgrounds and placed on or around animals, but just as frequently the photos are left untouched and instead are surrounded by elaborately painted frames.

The 50 States Project

2009-06-28T20:03:00.000-07:00

Above: Habitat; Michigan, Peter Baker
From the 50 States Project:
"The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA. Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they currently live. Every two months each photographer will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and their State. On 1st May 2009 all the images for the second assignment 'Habitat' were submitted by the 50 photographers and published on the site. The first assignment, "People", was sent on 2nd January 2009. The second, "Habitat", was sent on 1st March 2009. The third, "Landscape", on 1st May. The remaining 3 assignments will be announced on 1st July, 1st September and 1st November 2009 respectively. By the end of the project there will be 300 images which hopefully represent the talent of the photographers involved and have something to say about the USA today."
http://www.50statesproject.net/

Justin James Reed

2009-06-28T00:02:00.000-07:00

I'm salivating: http://www.justinjamesreed.com

Jan Kempenaers

2009-06-27T23:18:00.001-07:00

http://www.crowngallery.be/kempenaers.htm

Ferit Kuyas

2009-06-27T19:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.feritkuyas.com/

Kathryn Parker Almanas - Food Dissection Photography

2009-06-26T23:55:00.001-07:00

http://www.kathrynparkeralmanas.com/

X-ray Photography

2009-06-25T20:28:00.001-07:00

Above: Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta, Neugeborenes Kaninchen (Newborn Rabbit),1896; photogravure.

Above: Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta, Chamaeleon Cristatus, 1896; photogravure.

Josef Shulz

2009-06-24T23:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.josefschulz.de/

Tom Gallant

2009-06-24T22:28:00.001-07:00

Gallant creates hand-cut decorative floral prints using pornographic magazines.

Brian Dettmer's Book Sculptures

2009-06-24T21:05:00.000-07:00

Above: Altered Atlas 2008

http://www.ktfineart.com/artists/brian_dettmer/
Georgia Russell also does fantastic book sculptures:
http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_group.php?mainId=32&media=Constructions%20%26%20mixed%20media

Amy Stein

2009-06-23T00:42:00.000-07:00

Amy's photography blog: http://www.amysteinphoto.com/index.html

The Bassett Collection

2009-06-21T13:37:00.001-07:00

Text below is from the Basset Collection on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stanfordmedicine/sets/72157603949930348/

The Basset Collection, which now belongs to Stanford University's School of Medicine, is the definitive dissection collection available to medical students and instructors. These incredibly detailed dissections show and label most every part of the human body, from its tiniest veins, arteries and nerves to serial cross-sections of the spinal cord. The collection is the product of a 17-year collaboration between David L. Bassett, a School of Medicine alumnus and faculty member known for his elegant dissections and love for the human body, and William Gruber, the photographer who invented the View-Master stereoscopic viewing device.

The entire collection can be seen here:
http://lane.stanford.edu/bassett/index.html

Erik Mark Sandberg's Hairy Children

2009-06-20T23:49:00.001-07:00

http://www.eriksandberg.net/index.htm

Stefania Gurdowa (1888-1968)

2009-06-16T21:38:00.001-07:00

http://www.gurdowa.pl/