livelymorgue:

An archival photo from The New York Times shows news pictures being sorted in the newspaper’s photo “morgue,” which houses millions of images. Here they are — several each week — for you to see. Welcome to The Lively Morgue. 

theatlantic:

A View of Detroit As Captured Beneath a Photographer’s Dangling Feet

Detroit-based photographer Dennis Maitland has conceived of a new way to see the city, turning the experience of the skyscraper up on its head. In a series called “Life on the Edge,” Maitland climbs atop some of the highest perches in his hometown, dangles his feet precariously over the edge, focuses his lens downwards, and snaps a photo that is sure to induce perspiration. Maitland not only documents his personal overcoming of a fear of heights, but he captures views of Detroit that elevate city streets from their quotidian designation and paint a new image of our built environment. See more.

[Image: Dennis Maitland]

Vintage baby portraits with the mother “hiding.”

(via tballardbrown)

sabine:

Behind Photographs – The most famous photographs presented by their photographers by Tim Mantoani.

(via suitep:brain-food)

Photographic Recreations of Famous Paintings

These are great. Here is van Gogh’s “Bedroom in Arles,” as well as his famed self-portrait:

kateoplis:

Anne-Laure House, Pictures of Intimacy (1. NYC / 2. Prague)

timelightbox:

Photojournalist Tyler Cacek has been documenting the Ku Klux Klan since 2009, in an effort to understand how reasonable people come to adopt an unreasonable philosophy of hate. See more here. 

thepoliticalnotebook:

“Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya,” is a photography exhibit by David Breashears currently on display at the Royal Geographical Society in central London. From 2007 to 2010, he returned to the sites where famous photographers had taken shots of glaciers and recaptured their photographs, showing what those grand glaciers look like today. 

The black and white photograph in the picture above was taken in 1921 by George Mallory. of the Main Rongbuk Glacier. At the BBC, you can see an audio slideshow narrated by Breashears about his project.

[via Lensculture]

Massimo Cristaldi, Suspended:

A photographic sequence exploring what is far from Mediterranean stereotypes and “tòpoi”. No winking postcards testifying a collective image of Lands full of art and nature. No iconic visions of black dressed mamas, godfathers and religious fests. Visual sketches, on my Landscapes, where “The City is as old as Time and continuous with it,” where every place has been (or is going to be) colonized by man made artefacts. Suspended, between past and future, sky and earth, assuspended are buildings and structures that seam to grow up spontaneously from a common soil. In turning my mindscapes into reality, in choosing my subjects, I’ve created, without a deliberate decision, a time jumping effect, between unfinished and ruins, incomplete buildings and to-be projects.

(Source: kateoplis)

100 Days of Summer, a selection of hydrants in Brooklyn and the Bronx, by Charles Le Brigand.