Photography

Manhattan, 1959

December 27, 2011

Broadway at Wall Street, New York
1959
Todd Webb

Emily Dickinson was here

November 30, 2011

Emily Dickinson dress

Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress, Amherst Historical Society, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2010 (photo: Annie Leibovitz, from Pilgrimage).

Italy, 1940

November 4, 2011

Photo by Carl Mydans. (Life Magazine)

Face of the Day

October 5, 2011

Water boatman viewed in reflected light. Photo by Charles Krebs. (Click to view full size.) From the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2011.

Think Different, cont’d

September 8, 2011

Poster from Apple’s Think Different campaign (1997).

The Master

September 7, 2011

Henry James, age 63
Rye, England, 1906
Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966

This photo, by Frans Lanting for National Geographic, has not been Photoshopped or retouched in any way. It shows a place called Dead Vlei in Namibia in the early light of dawn. Details about the making of the photo are here. (Via PDN.)

Miller & Monroe, 1957

April 19, 2011

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, 1957, by Richard Avedon.

Note to my sons: once upon a time it was very, very cool to be a writer.

Photography

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