The Burning House is a Book!
Vor rund einem Jahr hatte ich über Foster Huntingtons Projekt The Burning House gebloggt, damals noch ein „einfaches“ Tumblelog, in dem User gefragt wurden, was sie aus ihrem brennenden Haus retten würden – inklusive Fotos davon (also von dem Kram, nicht von ihrem brennenden Haus). Die Website ging viral und Huntington fuhr an der Westküste entlang, um auch Leute zu erreichen, die keine Blogs lesen. Das Ergebnis ist ein jetzt erschienener und superspannender Fotoband zum Tumblr.
He set out to find those rare specimens who “had never heard of Tumblr, had never seen an iPad” — on other words, the kinds of people with whom he would’ve never crossed paths had he stayed in Manhattan. The results — rich, surprising, refreshingly human, from people separated by 80 years and spanning six continents — are now gathered in The Burning House: What Would You Take?, based on the Tumblr of the same name and a fine addition to this running list of blog-turned-book success stories.
The Burning House: What People Would Take if the House Was on Fire
Amazon-Partnerlink: The Burning House: What Would You Take?
Topography of Motion
Großartige Arbeiten vom japanischen Designkollektiv Nerhol auf Designboom: topography of motion through layered photographs.
the work is created through a multitude of photographs taken of a subject over a period of three minutes, where during this sitting, the model is asked to stay as still as they can. of course, the ability to remain completely immobile is impossible, and the work captures this through a topographical layering of the many photographs taken during the short interval, generating an effect where the image appears distorted and blurred. the concept explores the idea of time, human fragility and flaw, reminding the audience of shared corporeality.
Food from famous Books
Schicke Idee von Dinah Fried, die Speisen aus berühmten Büchern nachkocht und fotografiert. Leider nur fünf Mahlzeiten und eigentlich gehören da fast schon zwingend noch ein paar wichtige Details hin (Textstelle, Zitat, Rezept), aber die Idee ist trotzdem toll. Ich rate mal, was das oben ist: Kartoffelsuppe aus Moby Dick. Ich mag das Wort Kartoffelsuppe.
The photographs in this series, Fictitious Dishes, enter the lives of five fictional characters and depict meals from the novels The Catcher in the Rye, Oliver Twist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Moby Dick
Fictitious Dishes (via Neatorama)
Doomed Dogs Portraits
Dieses Bild geht grade auf Reddit und Buzzfeed unter der Headline „Clint Eastwood as a dog“ rum. Auf Buzzfeed finden’s 27 Leute LOL, 24 Win und 8 OMG. Auf Reddit wurde das Bild in /r/funny gepostet und hat derzeit 1694 Upvotes.
Das Bild stammt aus der Fotoserie Memento von Yun-Fei Tou, der in Taiwan Straßenhunde im Tierheim fotografiert, kurz bevor sie eingeschläfert werden. Clint Eastwood as a dog: „Taiwanese public animal shelter, time until merciful death: 1.1hours.“ Fuck you, Internet.
These images record the last moments of life for some dogs found in public pounds run by governmental agencies in Taiwan. These portraits are taken on the very day in which the animal depicted is about to be put down or mercifully killed. These images are but a small fraction of the total body of work in this ongoing project.
Utilizing the classic portrait style that originated in the early 19th century with the birth of photography as an art form these photographs offer the viewer a chance to look attentively into a bleak future. These dogs are essential dead and their souls are hours, minutes away from non-existence.
Taiwan photographer’s crusade: Doomed shelter dogs, Photographer tells story of doomed shelter dogs
Martha Cooper at Work
Youtube Direktcooper, via Publique
Tolles Feature von World of Photography TV (ne 80er ABC-Serie, die grade superviele Clips bei Youtube hochladen) mit Martha Cooper und Henry Chalfant bei der Arbeit. Es geht natürlich um die Entstehung ihres Graffiti-Klassikers Subway Art (den man hier auf Issuu lesen kann).
The Underground New York Public Library
Ourit Ben-Haim dokumentiert auf Tumblr seit Dezember 2011 Leser und ihre Bücher in der New Yorker U-Bahn: The Underground New York Public Library. Die Fotos gibt’s auch gesammelt in einem Flickr-Set, die Storys zu den Bildern nur auf der Website. Tolles Projekt! Aus einem Interview mit Ben-Haim:
What inspired you to begin the UNYPL?
The first time I photographed a subway reader, I did it just out of photographic instincts. After that I felt compelled to do it again, and the photographs I collected inspired me to build a visual library. Concentrating on the Reading-Riders led me to discover layers of meaning in their presence and activity. In time I resolved to create an extensive series, in revelation, preservation, and celebration of them.What does a book say about its reader?
To read is to be willing to engage ourselves towards discovery. Reading any book demonstrates this willingness. When I see the Reading-Riders, I see people who are contemplating description of new possibilities. In this way, every book says that its reader is simply great.
Charles Eisenmanns vintage Photos of „Freaks“
Charles Eisenmann war ein Fotograf im New York des 19. Jahrhunderts und schoss hunderte Fotos der „Freaks“ auf den Jahrmärkten und Zirkussen, ein paar davon gabs in der Naruyama Gallery zu sehen, die komplette Sammlung gibts auf der Website der Syracuse University und in der Eisenmann-Sammlung befindet sich auch ein Still mit der Bird Woman aus Tod Brownings Film „Freaks“, wobei der Film erst 1932 entstand und Eisenmann 1927 verstarb, ich bin mir also nicht 100%ig sicher wegen der Authentizität der Sammlungen im Einzelfall, aber hey, wir sind hier im Internet, wer gibt schon was auf solche Details? (Ich.)
With his studio located in the Bowery, New York City, photographer Charles Eisenmann began photographing portraits of show people from dime museums in the 1870s. While photographing “ordinary” people in the basic conventional form, Eisenmann continued working on his archive of “freaks” throughout the 1870s and 80s, which he sold in the cabinet style as collectables.
Clothed in stand collar uniforms and bustle dresses from the Victorian Era, each portrait is carefully directed to enhance the visual wonders of the models’ distinct physique.
Skateboarding, 1965
LIFE hat grade seine 1965er Bildstrecke mit Skatefotos von 1965 wiederveröffentlicht.
Thus did LIFE introduce to the magazine’s readers its own unique (if somewhat shrill) take on a toy that would evolve into the emblem of a singular subculture and, eventually, a lifestyle.
Skateboarding, LIFE opined in 1965, is “the most exhilarating and dangerous joyriding device this side of the hot rod. A two-foot piece of wood or plastic mounted on wheels, it yields to the skillful user the excitements of of skiing or surfing. To the unskilled it gives the effect of having stepped on a banana peel while dashing down the back stairs. It is also a menace to limb and even to life.”
In the previous month, the magazine noted, two children in different parts of the country were killed when they careened into traffic while skateboarding.
Photography from Mexico Citys Telenovela-Factory
Stefan Ruiz hat eine tolle Fotoserie aus den Seifenopern-Studios in Mexico City am Start.
Called The Factory of Dreams, no one produces more telenovelas than Mexican’s Televisa studios. Telenovelas and its protagonists are a powerful vehicle to understand contemporary Latin American culture and its society. Stefan’s photographs of the factory of dreams and the people working in it disclose this secret world to us with humor and affection. All Images are shot in the Televisa Studios, Mexico City.
The Factory of Dreams (via Coudal)
Cosmetic Surgery Photography
Cara Phillips fotografiert seit ein paar Jahren die Operationssäle und Büros von Schöneheitschirurgen und bringt nun einen Fotoband namens „Singular Beauty“ dazu raus. Wired hat ein Preview und das „Botox Mood Chart“ als Gesichtsausdrucksersatz für Leute, die sich grade das Gesicht dickspritzen ließen, ist der Abschuß: I’m ecstatic in Comic Sans!
While not a new issue, her oddly beautiful photos of the industry’s infrastructure are nuanced and insightful, partly because they come from Phillips’ own personal issues with ideas of beauty. From ages 8 to 15 she was a child model and for much of her 20s she worked as a makeup artist where her job was to try and identify a cosmetic problem that each customer had and then suggest the makeup that she could sell to fix it. “I loved the art part of it,” she says. “But I struggled with immorality of it and it became emotionally difficult.”
During that time Phillips herself was also struggling with an eating disorder — a by-product, she says, of her time as a child model. “Beauty was the only value from a young age that I had placed on me.”
When she delved into photography, the beauty industry quickly became Phillips’ area of focus. After several years of exploring how she might capture her ideas, she landed on cosmetic surgery. “It became this amazing metaphor for just how much we wanted to be beautiful,” she says.
Photo Book Paints Cosmetic Surgery Offices as Beauty Factories
2001 Behind the Scenes-Shots
Tolle Sammlung mit schönen SW-Behind the Scenes-Shots von Kubricks Dreharbeiten zu „2001“. (via Coudal)
Scream-activated Photoboot
Billy Hunt hat eine Boombox so umgebaut, dass sie Fotos schießt, sobald ein bestimmter Lautstärkepegel überschritten wird. Nette Idee, leider gibt’s keine Bilder der Boombox… die hätte ich gerne mal gesehen.
The Screamotron3000 is an converted boom box that takes a photo when you scream. Think Rube Goldberg meets the Wizard of Oz. […] One thing I did not anticipate was the project’s mass appeal. A line of people from all walks of life showed up. They brought dogs and costumes. They cursed and spit at me, called me names and made their babies cry for the camera.
Scream Portraits (via Seitvertreib)
[update] Hier die Boombox (Danke Schlurt!)…
Von Wired:
Hunt’s device consists of a microphone threaded through a boom box, which wirelessly fires a camera through a PocketWizard. The technology for the project is Hunt’s brainchild, but the actual engineering was done by a local camera shop in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Hunt is based. He took a large karaoke boom box into Pro Camera and they rigged it so that that when the levels from the input line (where the microphone is connected) senses a certain decibel of noise it puts out a little electric message that triggers a pocket wizard.
Photographic Work/Life/Fun-Triptychons of japanese People
Koji Takiguchi nimmt für sein Project Peep Leute bei der Arbeit, beim Abhängen zuhause und in ihrer Freizeit auf. Das ist oft genauso banal wie interessant, wenn etwa der Surfboard-Schnitzer Surfboards schnitzt, ein bisschen rumgammelt und dann in der Freizeit… surft. Oder auch unerwartet, wenn etwa der Mönch in seiner Freizeit Pirates of the Caribbean-Cosplayzeug macht. Und dann hätten wir noch obigen Pornostar, die tatsächlich (?) in einer Hello Kitty-Bude lebt und sich in ihrer Freizeit vor nem Kreuz fesseln lässt. WTF?! (via Animal NY)
Abandoned Dubai
Schönes Fotoprojekt von Richard Allenby-Pratt, der Fotos von einem menschenverlassenen photoshoppt. (via io9)
This project imagines a future without people, where the relics of our unrealised ambitions are populated by some of the species we have, in the present day, come so close to exterminating. I hope to highlight the fragility of our economic systems and the desperate need for us to live in harmony with the other occupants of our world.
Sein Abandoned-Ding ist übrigens nicht unrealistisch, 2010 hatte ich ein Posting über die verrottenden Luxuskarossen in Dubais Wüstensand, inklusive eines ollen roten DeLoreans: The abandoned Luxuxcars of Dubai.
