Posts tagged photography
Ruined Polaroids might sound like a travesty, but William Miller made a series of intentionally ruined Polaroid prints that are actually really beautiful.
He says,
These are Polaroid pictures run through a partially broken SX-70 camera that I purchased from a yard sale.
The camera sometimes spills out 2 pictures at a time and the film often gets stuck in the gears, exposing and mangling the images in unpredictable ways.
Over time I’ve figured out how to control and accentuate aspects of the camera’s flaws but the images themselves are always a surprise. Each one is determined by the idiosyncrasies of the film and the camera.
images from space track relentless spread of humanity
The past century has been defined by an epic migration of people from rural areas to the city. In 2008, for the first time in history, more of the Earth’s population was living in cities than in the countryside. The U.N. now predicts that nearly 70% of the global population will be city dwellers by 2050.
Looking back through the decades, these snapshots from space — created exclusively for CNN by NASA’s Landsat department in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey — reveal the impact of this vast population shift on cities around the world.
Click on each image and scroll between past and present to see how our urban sprawl has transformed our landscape.
The city of New York is holding an official photo contest via Facebook.
They just picked the top 10, which will go onto voting. Check ‘em out.
Official City of New York Photo Contest — Top 10 Photos
Top by Alexis Lamster; bottom by Steven Jackson
Anna May Wong in 1932
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten
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does anyone else remember having those playskool rollerskates!?
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