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Photographer Unknown, Great Expectations
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
–Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Artist Unknowm, “Color Fade: Piercing Eyes”, Computer Graphics
Reblogged with thanks to http://3leapfrogs.com
Johnny Milano, “Washington, DC, Cyclist”, 2016, Infra-Red Photography
“After completing a Bachelors program in Political Science at St. Joseph’s College in 2011, I continued on to the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography program at the International Center of Photography in New York City, where I completed the one year certificate program in 2012. My work has appeared in and clients include publications like Reuters, The New York Times, Newsday, Stern Magazine, Al Jazeera America, Wall Street Journal, VICE, CNN, and the Huffington Post. I am 360 video capable and a certified FAA commercial drone operator. Have memory cards, will travel.” -Johnny Milano
Artist Unknown, (Flicker), Computer Graphics, Film Gifs
Yakov Fyodorovich Kapov, “The Death of Alcibiades”, 1842, Oil on Canvas, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Reblogged with thanks to : http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
Lucien Clegue, “Testament of Orpheus de Jean Cocteau”
Lucien Clergue was born in Aries, France. Clergue was from a family of shopkeepers and could not afford to pursue further studies in a college or university.. In 1949, he learned the basics of photography. Four years later, at a corrida in Arles, Lucien showed his photographs to Spanish painter Pablo Picasso who, though subdued, asked to see more of his work. Within a year and a half, young Clergue worked on his photography with the goal of sending more images to Picasso.
During this period, he worked on a series of photographs of traveling entertainers, acrobats and harlequins, the Saltimbanques. He also worked on a series of photos whose subject was carrion. On November 4, 1955, Lucien Clergue with more photographs again visited Picasso in Cannes, France. Their friendship lasted nearly 30 years until Picasso’s death.
He was named Knight of the Legion d’honneur in 2003 and elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute of France on May 31, 2006, at the same time as a new section dedicated to photography was created. Clergue was the first photographer to enter the Academy to a position devoted specifically to photography. In 2013 he served as the Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Artist Unknown, (Thirty Thousand Feet per Second), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs
Reblogged form the artist’s site: http://30000fps.com
Photographer Unknown, (Smelling the Rose)
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
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Gustavo Torres / Kidmograph, “PRTTYP”
Gustavo Torres is an art director and motion designer living and working in Industria, Argentina.
Reblogged from the artist’s site: http://kidmograph.tumblr.com
Photographer Unknown, The Wrestlers
“While serving one of his countless sentences of imprisonment, he was given ex-wrestler Paul as cell companion. Paul was at that time a dock worker; he was in jail for having, during a strike riot, remembered his professional past and applied the grip known as a double Nelson to a policeman. This grip consisted in passing one’s arms through the opponent’s armpits from behind, locking one’s hands behind his neck, and pressing his head down until the neck vertebra began to crack. In the ring this had always brought him considerable applause, but he had learned to his regret that in the class struggle the double Nelson was not done.”
–Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Divine Knights, “Storm”
Divine Knights are a progressive synth-pop and coulture duo from Sydney, Australia.
Photographer Unknown, (The Boring Company: Los Angeles Tunnel)
Glenn Priestley, Title and Date Unknown, (The Convention)
Photographer Unknown, (Photo Array)
King Kong, Illustrated by Christophe Blain
This re-telling of Merian C Cooper and Edgar Wallace’s famed tale is a 44 page children’s book printed in 2004 by Albin Michel.
The comic pages illustrated by Christophe Blain are more in line with the style that’s become synonymous with him: bubbly, clear-lined, cartoony, although it is more subdued here and weighted down with shadowy pencils, and are a well done use of narrative; really layering in further story considering the text is a very condensed version. At the same time he’s aware of his intended audience, so does keep them simple, in terms of composition or multiple elements in frame.
The single and double page images give Blain more room to fles and are much more impressionistic: smokier, smudged pastel-like textures that cleverly -by never really giving solid outline or shape to Kong’s gargantuan mass- have the effect of making him seem even bigger, mythic and uncontainable. They add to the ominous atmosphere, set up ambiance, and feed the tragic tone of the story.