Tilt Shift Photography

I just came across these amazing, yet highly tedious, 'tilt-shift' images.

Enjoy; (you can find the link to the full story here.)

Henri Cartier Bresson - "The Impassioned Eye"

I recently watched a great documentary on H. Bresson- I'd recommend it if you find you have some spare time as winter break approaches! You can find the IMBD summary of it here, and an NY Times review here.

"In this small but stately film, completed a year before Cartier-Bresson's death at 95 in August 2004, he slowly leafs through volumes of his black-and-white photographs, shows some of his later drawings and muses on his art...In all his photographs, Cartier-Bresson says, 'geometry is the foundation.'"

Ryan McGinley's New Work

Hey Everybody! Ryan McGinley has a new show going on in London called, "Wandering Comma." He put up some pictures from this series on his website. Check them out!

Here is the link to the gallery: http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/

Here is the link to McGinley's site: http://ryanmcginley.com/

Color photos from 1920's Egypt

Retronaut.co: 1920's Egypt in Color

photos from Gervais Courtellmont and W. Robert Moore for National Geographic

These insanely cool photos are Autochromes, which was a very early method of color photgraphy. The process is quite complicated but also really interesting (as is the way with many historical processes). It involves grains of potato starch which act as filters.

These photos seem remarkably well-preserved (although we don't know what kind of digital restoration has been applied to them for the web), which seems possible because Autochromes are notoriously difficult to reproduce. Even so, this kind of quality is really impressive from a relatively primitive technology.

It's also interesting to consider how much but also how little has changed since the photos were taken.

Also, Retronaut, the blog where I found these images, is insanely cool and you should check it out. They publish sweet vintage photos and things.

Love,

Caleb Savage

Lee Price

This artist is incredible.

Check out the website please!

Some of them I can't even believe are paintings and not photographs!