Mar. 31, 2012 at 10:49am with 2 notes
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William Eggelston
from Los Alamos 

Mar. 21, 2012 at 9:59pm with 4 notes
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Jeff Wall, The Thinker, 1986, Transparency in lightbox, 221 x 229 cm, © Jeff Wall.

Jeff Wall, The Thinker, 1986, Transparency in lightbox, 221 x 229 cm, © Jeff Wall.

Mar. 14, 2012 at 2:17am with 1 note
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Frank Hurley took them.

Frank Hurley took them.

Mar. 12, 2012 at 1:07pm
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Still life study, bowl of fruit behind gold frameDr. W Simon, ca. 1910.Autchrome color process

Still life study, bowl of fruit behind gold frame
Dr. W Simon, ca. 1910.
Autchrome color process

Feb. 23, 2012 at 7:42am with 1 note
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Paul OuterbridgeImages de Deauvillec. 1936

Paul Outerbridge
Images de Deauville
c. 1936

Jan. 25, 2012 at 10:30pm with 74 notes
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President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration … IN 3D!

President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration … IN 3D!

Dec. 16, 2011 at 3:56pm with 15 notes
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Glass dish with classical figures, ceramic bowl and vase of flowersH. Wormleighton, ca. 1915. Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process via George Eastman House on Flickr.

Glass dish with classical figures, ceramic bowl and vase of flowers
H. Wormleighton, ca. 1915.

Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process

via George Eastman House on Flickr.

12:20pm with 12 notes
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Plate 545 Nude Female Sitting Artificially Induced ConvulsionsEadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1888.

Plate 545 
Nude Female Sitting Artificially Induced Convulsions
Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1888.

Nov. 2, 2011 at 1:32am with 1 note
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Brassaï, Sculptures Involontaires, 1933

Brassaï, Sculptures Involontaires, 1933

1:30am
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Brassaï, Sculptures Involontaires, 1933

Brassaï, Sculptures Involontaires, 1933

Nov. 15, 2010 at 12:33pm with 1 note
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Walking through the Greek & Roman halls at the Met en route to the Baldessari show, I noticed some of the figurative statues in the hall were casting shadows that looked like Edward Steichen’s pictures of Rodin’s Balzac, on display a few galleries away (click through to see 4 of them) so I snapped some gritty iPhone pictures and teased the Steichen out of them. info about the image above: Edward Steichen (American (born Luxembourg), Bivange, 1879–1973 West Redding, Connecticut)Balzac, The Silhouette—4 A.M.1908Gum bichromate print

Walking through the Greek & Roman halls at the Met en route to the Baldessari show, I noticed some of the figurative statues in the hall were casting shadows that looked like Edward Steichen’s pictures of Rodin’s Balzac, on display a few galleries away (click through to see 4 of them) so I snapped some gritty iPhone pictures and teased the Steichen out of them.

info about the image above:

Edward Steichen (American (born Luxembourg), Bivange, 1879–1973 West Redding, Connecticut)
Balzac, The Silhouette—4 A.M.1908Gum bichromate print

Feb. 9, 2010 at 10:00am with 1 note
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“
The nineteenth century began by believing that what was reasonable was true and it would end up by believing that what it saw a photograph of was true.
— William M Ivins
Feb. 4, 2010 at 10:00am with 2 notes
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“
At any given moment the accepted report of an event is of greater importance than the event, for what we think about and act upon is the symbolic report and not the concrete event itself.
— William M Ivins