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25 Haunting Roy DeCarava Photos of Harlem

25 Haunting Roy DeCarava Photos of Harlem

Yesterday we heard the sad news that American photographer Roy DeCarava had passed away at the age of 89. One of the pioneers of a new kind of American street photography, especially between the late-40s and late-60s, DeCarava focused his lens on the desolation of the neighborhood where was spent most of his life: Harlem. [...]

7 Children's Prosthetic Legs

7 Children’s Prosthetic Legs

We don’t always feel so optimistic on a Monday morning, but the bouncy stance and smile of this kid posing with his 7 Children’s Prosthetic Legs has us feeling in a pretty positive light about everything. If he can be happy despite the obvious difficulties his life poses, who are we not to smile?

8 B-Boys Wearing Paper Bags

8 B-Boys Wearing Paper Bags

It’s been a little while since we featured a single-image list (the famous robot T-shirt design must have been the most recent, and of course the teddy bears in wagons were the first), but fashion photographer Leonard Gren’s shot of 8 B-Boys Wearing Paper Bags seemed like a good opportunity to break the dry spell. [...]

25 Amazing Irving Penn Portraits

25 Amazing Irving Penn Portraits

As you may have heard, Irving Penn, the famous photographer who shot virtually every celebrity and famous designer from the late 1940s onward, died yesterday at the age of 92 at his Manhattan home. Aside from his fashion photography for Vogue, Penn was probably best known for capturing playful and intense moments with some of [...]

20 Artful Camouflages

20 Artful Camouflages

From acquiring some sort of chameleon-like ability to change colors and adopt patterns, to donning elaborate makeup and costumes in order to blend with our surroundings, to being straight up invisible, we’ve contemplated many ways to render ourselves imperceptible. Executing those plans, however, has proven difficult, and we’ve never done anything nearly as convincing as [...]

Lego Versions of 13 Classic Photographs

Lego Versions of 13 Classic Photographs

The Internet’s silly fascination with Lego re-enactments of, well, anything, doesn’t have to involve exclusively tacky and artless creations. For instance, the Daily Beast has a listicle of images created by British photographer Mike Stimpson to replicate some of the most iconic images of modern culture with Lego. Our favorite of his Lego Versions of [...]

20 Sweltering Photographs of Wildfires

20 Sweltering Photographs of Wildfires

As drought-prone areas experience some of the driest seasons on record ever, both the Southern and Northern hemispheres have witnessed some of the worst wildfires in years in 2009. This weekend a massive wildfire was knocking at Los Angeles’ gates, but California, the Northwest and even Alaska have been getting lit all summer, as have [...]

48 Photos Taken at the Perfect Moment

48 Photos Taken at the Perfect Moment

Funny how an image of a cat in mid-air about to hit a wall or an aquarium is actually more interesting than the video of that happening. Something about delayed gratification, anticipation, imagination and uncertainty makes such moments – when something is forever about to happen, frozen in a still image – endlessly fascinating. That’s [...]

Photos of 15 Animals Yawning

Photos of 15 Animals Yawning

Animals, especially domestic animals, pretty much seem to be doing cute stuff all the time. This probably has something to do with the life of leisure they live, free from the constraints of actual animal life (ie. catching food, evading predators, performing their own surgery when they swallow a plastic play toy).
Few things are cuter, [...]

12 Iconic Photographs by Julius Shulman

12 Iconic Photographs by Julius Shulman

Legendary modernist architectural photographer Julius Shulman (seen in the self-portrait at right) passed away Wednesday night at age 98, and over the course of his rich, visionary career, he captured some of the most legendary modern structures of the 20th century, both in the U.S. and abroad, by architects like Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, [...]