We all know China is going through an enormous economical growth. The government recently spent 200 million dollars on a railway network. But not all money is well spent: apart from the constructors nobody lives in Ordos. Why is it empty? It’s simply too expensive. The pictures were made by Michael Christopher Brown.
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Simon’s beautiful figurative oil paintings are done on a very large scale. Each has incredible abstract details but looks oddly realistic when viewing the whole painting. He has been a part of many different projects and received numerous awards for his work.
“Birch is interested in universal ideas of transition, the ambiguous moment between an initiation and a conclusion, the unobtainable now and the future, inevitably crashing towards us. For Birch these ideas translate easily from oil paint, to film, to installations, which engage with myth, history, circus and science fiction, connection and disconnect. He chooses to explore these themes in an enveloping environment of theater and spectacle, where the process of viewing becomes experiential: overwhelming and complex, yet as spectacle and adventure, also approachable.”
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Nice photo series titled “Animal portraits” by New York photographer Simen Johan.
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Here is a selection of 11 photos of the 24th annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, picked from more than 12,000 entries submitted by 6,615 photographers from 152 countries…
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Great photo series titled “Kitchen Portraits” by Erik Klein Wolterink.
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Ruth Orkin (1921 – 1985) was an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker. She grew up in Hollywood in the heyday of the 1920s and 1930s. At the age of 10, she received her first camera, a 39 cent Univex. She began by photographing her friends and teachers at school. At 17 years old she took a monumental bicycle trip across the United States from Los Angeles to New York City to see the 1939 World’s Fair, and she photographed along the way. Orkin moved to New York in 1943, where she worked as a nightclub photographer and shot baby pictures by day to buy her first professional camera. She worked for all the major magazines in 1940s, and also went to Tanglewood during the summers to shoot rehearsals. She ended up with many of the worlds’ greatest musicians of the time including Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Aaron Copland and many others.
In 1951, LIFE magazine sent her to Israel with the Israeli Philharmonic. Orkin then went to Italy, and it was in Florence where she met Nina Lee Craig, an art student and fellow American, who became the subject of “American Girl in Italy.” The photograph was part of a series originally titled “Don’t Be Afraid to Travel Alone” about what they encountered as women traveling alone in Europe after the war.
Ruth Orkin in London
On her return to New York, Orkin married the photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel. Together they produced two feature films, including the classic “Little Fugitive” which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1953. From their New York apartment overlooking Central Park, Orkin photographed marathons, parades, concerts, demonstrations, and the beauty of the changing seasons. These photographs were the subject of two widely acclaimed books, “A World Through My Window” and “More Pictures From My Window.” After a long struggle with cancer, Orkin passed away in her apartment, surrounded by her wonderful legacy of photographs with the view of Central Park outside her window.
This iconic photo was the result of a superb collaboration between two American young women each traveling solo across war torn Europe in 1951. Ruth Orkin and Jinx Allen serendipitously ran into each other in a cheap hostel overlooking the Arno in Florence, and in her widely-acclaimed photoessay, “Don’t be Afraid to Travel Alone” , Orkin photographed Jinx Allen shopping in the markets, crossing traffic, riding a carriage and flirting at a cafe. But the most famous was the above photo; it was taken at 10:30 a.m., the street was packed with loitering men because work was scarce and unemployment high in post-war Italy. While the contact sheet began at its eighth frame, they show that Orkin indeed took only two versions of her famous photo. Some may have thought it was staged as the image is so perfect in it’s composition and timing ( as Bresson said the “decisive moment”) but it was just a perfect moment caught by a master photographer. You can also see from the contact sheets that after those two frames, the man on the Vespa took Jinx Allen for a spin.
AngelBeat 黃俊團 1985年生於台北 高中畢業後原為一名多媒體設計師，因緣際會下得到了一臺小型傻瓜相機，進而成為一個自由攝影師並成立AngelBeatFoto。
充滿感情及故事性的畫面、慣用於廣角鏡頭貼近主題的方式，強迫性的讓觀者”站在現場”之風格最為出名。並深信照片本身會自己訴說照片本身的故事。
拍攝主題包括時尚、街頭、搖滾樂、刺青、同性戀文化、女體…等等，黃俊團用相機試圖證明人性廣泛價值及真實。
2011年出版 黃俊團的一瞬千擊 One shot
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Helsinki, Finland-based photographer Janne Parviainen has been light painting since 2008, and recently created series of experimental photos showing a technique he calls Light Topography. Using a single LED light for each image, he carefully traces over every surface in the scene while the camera’s shutter is open. Fully tracing a room can take as long as half an hour. The resulting light outlines provide a trippy look at what each space contains.
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Life in Pictures 