Fake Family Portraits From the Art World
Self-Portrait with Laurie Simmons at her home in New York. © Chandler Holmes
Throughout college, Chandler Holmes took a lot of photos of his family. When he applied to graduate school, one of his interviewers suggested that he continue this trend by flying back and forth to visit them, an expensive proposition for a student already coping with tuition and other living expenses. “I’d hate for you to have to get a surrogate family,” the interviewer said when Holmes balked at the idea. The idea of using a different family seemed a bit far-fetched but it stuck with him, and a few months into school he began to explore ways to create a project about family that didn’t revolve around his own.
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September 25: This Day in Photos from the Past
Holding one of the rockets designed to speed into the stratosphere at 700 miles an hour in search of new meteorological data, Dr. Robert Goddard, second from right, with a few of his assistants (unidentified), is pictured in Roswell, N.M., September 25, 1935. (Photo by AP Photo)
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September 23-24: These Days in Photos from the Past
A steel worker rests on a girder at the 86th floor of the new Empire State Building during construction in New York City, September 24, 1930. The tower of the Chrysler Building can be seen in background, left. (Photo by AP Photo) Continue reading »
Photographer Angelica Dass Matches Skin Tones with Pantone Colors
For her ongoing project ‘Humanæ‘, photographer Angelica Dass takes portraits of people from all around the world to match their skin tones with the PANTONE® color system. To create a photo background of the same color, a sample of 11×11 pixels of the portrait’s face is extracted digitally. The photographer’s aim is to document every human skin tone on earth.
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Hilarious Images From The Opening Scenes Of Adult Movies
Pornography films are notorious for their predictable opening scenes, composed of a few awkward and cheesy moments that establish a backstory for a naughty encounter. Setting the stage for on-screen sex, these absurd performances go largely forgotten, but what would they look like pulled from their salacious context? Continue reading »
Soapbox Racers by Alan Powdrill
Pitstop. Photo © by Alan Powdrill
“This summer I photographed the daredevil ‘Soapbox Racers‘ and their homemade gravity powered machines, all taking part at a London Redbull event. In a nutshell they’re thrown down a very steep hill doing their best to navigate a course and stay in one piece at the same time. They reach some serious speeds matched by some serious spills, creating a go-cart graveyard at the bottom of the hill.”, says photographer Alan Powdrill. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Eye-Popping “Roomscapes” with a Camera Obscura
Notice something strange about the wall mural in the above photograph? It’s upside down! That’s because it was created using a “camera obscura” — the favored technique of Cuban born artist Abelardo Morell, who has been experimenting with this approach since 1991.
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September 21-22: These Days in Photos from the Past
Two female holidaymakers relax on an unidentified beach of England, September 21, 1940, as a soldier, eyes straight ahead, stands guard at a barrier built as a defense against possible invasion by Germany. (Photo by AP Photo)
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Emotional Backstage Portraits of the Emmy Awards Nominees
Richard Cabral poses for a portrait at the Television Academy’s 67th Emmy Awards Performers Nominee Reception at the Pacific Design Center on Saturday, September 19, 2015 in West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)
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Parents Trolling Daughter’s Photos
Incredibly chilled out parents perfectly trolled their offspring on the Internet. Their daughter Emily Musson selfies with her boyfriend on Twitter until her parents began to imitate young people’s behaviour. Continue reading »
This Bride Took Her Own Wedding Photos, and Then They Went Viral
Many brides shell out thousands of dollars for expert wedding photography. But when 29-year-old Liisa Luts of Tallin, Estonia, got married August 28, she decided to take the low-maintenance route and photograph the wedding herself, the results offering an intimate portrayal of the wedding day.
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Photographer Took Aerial Photos of Ships
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Photographer Dirk Brömmel made use of the available digital techniques and expanded the range of our perception. In what way? By means of technology he literally took us into the air, where everything is more visible and clear in order to show us how ships look like from the top. He took pictures of thirty ships which hev a different transport character and that vary in sizes. Continue reading »
Zombie Parade in Duesseldorf, Germany
A march of zombies has passed through the German city of Dusseldorf. For one day living dead woke up from their graves and took to the streets to scare passers-by and play with the other stiffs. Continue reading »
Stunning Plus Size Models at New York Fashion Week
Finally fashion is celebrating beautiful women of all shapes and sizes – check out what the plus size models at New York Fashion Week wore on the catwalk. Here and below: Models walk down the runway during the Addition Elle/Ashley Graham Lingerie Collection fashion show during the Spring 2016 Style 360 on September 15, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Fernando Leon/Getty Images)
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Powerful Portraits of the Refugees by Brian Sokol
Magbola Alhadi, 20, and her three children pose for a portrait in Jamam refugee camp in Maban County, South Sudan on August 11th, 2012. Magboola and her family weathered aerial bombing raids for several months, but decided it was time to leave their village of Bofe the night that soldiers arrived and opened fire. With her three children, she travelled for 12 days from Bofe to the town of El Fudj, on the South Sudanese border. Continue reading »
September 18: This Day in Photos from the Past
Two boys playfully slug it out with one boxing glove each Wednesday September 18, 1996 along a flooded street at northern Manila suburb of Kalookan following heavy rains overnight. Boxing is slowly becoming popular here following the silver medal finish of a Filipino light flyweight boxer in the Atlanta Olympics. (Photo by Alberto Marquez/AP Photo) Continue reading »
September 17: This Day in Photos from the Past
British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, rides aboard a British tank at Fallingbostel, West Germany, September 17, 1986. Mrs. Thatcher was making an official visit to British forces. (Photo by Joel Fink/AP Photo)
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Two Sisters from Norway with Magical Photos Inspired by Nature and Music
“We are two tripletsisters from Norway that are passionate about photography and music. My sister Emilie Hamn (on instagram: @artphotographer17) is the one who takes the photos, and I Madeleine Hamn (on instagram: @birdmadeleine) is the model and musician and uses inspiration from music in the photos. The thing we have in common is our passion for art, nature, fairytales, and instagram.”, says Madeleine to Bored Panda. Continue reading »
Vivid Color Photographs Show Iconic Beach Culture of Miami Beach in the Late 1970s
Throughout the 1970s, a young photographer named Andy Sweet documented the personalities of Miami in vivid color. In 1977, Sweet returned to the area after completing his studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and set out to document South Beach’s vivid old-world culture. Continue reading »
Aerial Summer Symmetry Photography
German photographer Bernhard Lang, aerial photography specialist, made a summer collection of pictures that brings out the symmetry and linearity of the vacationers installation on the Adria beach, located on the Italian North East coast. Continue reading »
September 16: This Day In Photos From The Past
Salma Karim, 4, awaits a medical examination and diagnosis at the Saddam Children’s Hospital in Baghdad Monday, September 16, 1996. Due to the international economic blockade, Iraqi hospitals have little medicine and many curable illnesses go untreated. The United States has blocked a U.N. resolution allowing food and medicine in exchange for Iraqi oil. On Aug. 31, Saddam Hussein sent soldiers into the U.S.-protected Kurdish “safe haven” in northern Iraq to oust an Iranian-backed faction in favor of another Kurdish group allied with Baghdad. (Photo by John Moore/AP Photo)
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September 15: This Day In Photos From The Past
This is the scene at the re-opening of New York’s Studio 54, September 15, 1981. (Photo by G. Paul Burnett/AP Photo)
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Girls In Bikini On The Beach Of California, 1970
Photos of frolicking California beauties on the beach in 1970. Photos by Co Rentmeester, via LIFE archives. Continue reading »
Beautiful Photos Of Summer In North Carolina, 1975
Joel Sternfeld is a fine-art color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. He has influenced a generation of color photographers, including Andreas Gursky, who borrows many of Sternfeld’s techniques and approaches. Continue reading »
Alexander Wang Photoshoot Campaign With Celebrities
Alexander Wang is back to celebrate his 10th anniversary with a T-shirts collection created in collaboration with youth and social organization DoSomething. Continue reading »
