Reads tagged with “photography”

Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Poignant Photographs

What the Amazon rainforest has to do with the Kaisut Desert and Fifth Avenue luxury.

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Ethnic Diversity in Russia 100 Year Ago, Restored in Color

From peasants to emirs, or nomads have to do with the political cornerstones of world history.

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Akule: Magnificent Black-and-White Underwater Photographs

What underwater tornadoes have to do with marine sustainability and Captain Cook’s death.

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Andrew Bush’s Drive-By Portraits: A Meditation on Character

What a vintage Beetle has to do with speeding grannies and the challenges of family travel.

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Linda McCartney’s Tender Photographs of The Beatles and Other Icons

What the Queen’s speech has to do with Jimi Hendrix’s fro and John Lennon in color.

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Rare Early Photographs of Musicians Around the World

Playing the hurdy-gurdy, or why African-American jazz bands were banned in Australia until 1954.

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Hurricane Story: A Haunting Analog Photo-Memoir of Katrina, Partway Between Nightmare and Fairy Tale

What red glitter shoes have to do with one family’s plight to find order in chaos.

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Urban Atrophy: Haunting Photos of Architectural Ghosts

What Classic Coke has to do with abandoned dolls and the afterlife of buildings.

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Spomenik: Eerie Retrofuturistic Monuments of the Eastern Bloc

The ghosts of communism, or what alien architecture has to do with societal memory and Serbia’s mountains.

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7 Essential Books on Data Visualization & Computational Art

What 12 million human emotions have to do with civilian air traffic and the order of the universe.

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Reads tagged with “photography”

What the Amazon rainforest has to do with the Kaisut Desert and Fifth Avenue luxury.

From peasants to emirs, or nomads have to do with the political cornerstones of world history.

What underwater tornadoes have to do with marine sustainability and Captain Cook’s death.

What a vintage Beetle has to do with speeding grannies and the challenges of family travel.

What the Queen’s speech has to do with Jimi Hendrix’s fro and John Lennon in color.

Playing the hurdy-gurdy, or why African-American jazz bands were banned in Australia until 1954.

What red glitter shoes have to do with one family’s plight to find order in chaos.

What Classic Coke has to do with abandoned dolls and the afterlife of buildings.

The ghosts of communism, or what alien architecture has to do with societal memory and Serbia’s mountains.

What 12 million human emotions have to do with civilian air traffic and the order of the universe.

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