It’s not good for artists to have their work floating around uncredited on the internet, but it’s a huge problem on Tumblr. Generate some good blogging karma by following these steps next time you post a photo or artwork that isn’t yours! —axon-axoff
From the series Live And Let Live by Lukasz Wierzbowski
Amanda and her cousin Amy Valdese by Mary Ellen Mark
North Carolina, USA, 1990
In 1990, Peter Howe at Life magazine sent me to North Carolina to photograph a special school for children with problems. The school was a very strange place because all of the twenty or so children were in the same classroom and their problems ranged from mild behavior instability to severe schizophrenia.
Nine-year-old Amanda was the most interesting child in the class. She was my favorite child. Amanda was very intelligent and very naughty. One day I followed her home on the school bus. When the bus stopped at her house, she dashed ahead of me and ran into a nearby wooded area. I continued to follow her into the woods and eventually found her sitting in an old stuffed chair having a cigarette. She thought that I would reprimand her since I was an adult. But I said nothing.
The following Sunday, I spent the day at home with Amanda and her mother. Amanda totally controlled her mother. She constantly gave her orders and proceeded to put on her mother’s nail polish and makeup. Amanda smoked openly in front of her. Her 8-year-old cousin Amy was coming over, and she was very excited. All day long, Amanda and her cousin played like children. Every forty-five minutes or so, Amanda would take a break to have a cigarette. Her mother could say nothing; Amanda was the boss.
Just before I left, I looked for Amanda to say good-bye. I found her and Amy in the backyard. They were in a children’s inflatable pool. Amanda was taking her regular cigarette break.
The people of Mexico were lined up along the streets to see the Pope. This little guy thought otherwise.
This is a rare meteorological phenomenon called a skypunch. When people see these, they think it’s the end of the world. Ice crystals form above the high-altitude cirro-cumulo-stratus clouds, then fall downward, punching a hole in the cloud cover.
SKYPUNCH.
Children in the streets of Paris photographed by Robert Doisneau.
Three-toed Sloth
(photo: Steven Kirkpatrick, Madison, Mississippi)
Sometimes wildlife photography requires not only artistry but athleticism. On a boat trip to the Peruvian Amazon, Kirkpatrick spotted this three-toed sloth eating in a tree branch above a river—a visual he had always hoped to capture with his camera. In order to photograph the mammal face-to-face, he tied the boat to a tree while one of his companions clambered onto the boat’s roof. “I climbed on his shoulders and, shooting one-handed with a wide-angle lens, finally pressed the shutter,” Kirkpatrick recalls.
(via: National Wildlife Federation)
“Wassup MTV, welcome to my crib. It is a jungle.”
BOKEH PLUS SPACE INVADERS OH MY GOODY GOODNESS.
(Source: somewhereontheiceplanet)
Feeding The Birds 2011
“I take pictures by reading the available light. I never have owned a flash or similar lighting equipment. I love to work with minimal equipment, thus I can keep focused on the scenery. I have used numerous cams and lenses, but for my personal work I favor a simple Leica M9 Rangefinder camera equipped with only one lens.”
This is so achingly beautiful.
I like Reinfried Marass’s justification for eschewing lighting equipment.
Alternative Aladdin Sane shots by Brian Duffy (1973)
(Source: retronaut.co)
