The Daredevil Female Photographer Who Lowers Herself Into Active Volcanoes
The German photographer Ulla Lohmann takes studying volcanoes to the extreme: she lowers herself into active volcanoes to take pictures. Continue reading »
Artist Reimagines Disney Princesses As Famous Female Singers In Youtube Videos
The digital artist Gregory Masouras (previously featured) does arts using Disney Princess as female singers on Youtube. In these digital mash-ups, you can see what happens when 16 characters of Disney are placed into one video clip of Youtube. Continue reading »
Marvelous Female Portraits By Jenna Kay
Jenna Kay is a talented self-taught photographer and retoucher based in White Lake, Michigan, USA. Jenna focuses on portraiture, she shoots amazing beauty, lifestyle, wedding and fashion photography. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Realistic Life-Sized Female Sculptures Inspired By The Graceful Beauty Of Renaissance Art
Luo Li Rong is a Chinese artist who lives in Belgium for several years now. At a very young age she began sculpting and she studied art at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. When she graduated, she was honored and became a member of the workshop of the master Sun Jiabao. There she immersed herself in classical figurative sculpture. The goal was to be one in spirit with the model. Continue reading »
This Artist Uses Emojis To Create Images Of Female Nipples So She Can Bypass Instagram’s Ban On Nudity
Instagram’s conditions of use make point of saying that they don’t allow nudity on Instagram, though nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures are OK, and male nipples totally surpass this ruling. Continue reading »
Stunning Colorized Photos Of Legendary Soviet Female Snipers From WWII, Including One Dubbed ‘Lady Death’ Who Killed 309 Nazis
Stunning colorized images have given new life to WWII female snipers who protected their territory against German attacks, including the most successful female sniper in history, Lyudmila Pavlichenko also known as ‘Lady Death’.
Roza Shanina was one of the 800,000 women who fought in Russia.
The photographs were colorized by Moscow artist Olga Shirnina. Continue reading »
Fashion In Early Photography – Glamorous Photos Show Female Models In Victorian Era
Clothing for women in Victorian era was utterly feminine, and was designed to emphasize the much-admired small waist. Ladies wore as many as seven petticoats under their voluminous skirts, and bodices were high necked, long sleeved, and tightly fitted to the body. Continue reading »
Just A Simple Guy Who Loves Wearing Fabulous Female Shoes
Women are not the only shoe lovers in the world. This man enjoys wearing high heels, sneakers, platform shoes, etc. I have no idea what shoe size he wears, but he seems to find all possible shoes that fit him. Look how happy he is on these pictures Continue reading »
“Memoirs Of The Geisha” – A Look Back At The Traditional Japanese Female Entertainers
Two geishas receive a visiting samurai, Japan, circa 1880:
Hulton Archive
A long standing stigma has been placed on Japanese Geisha girls. When someone thinks of a Geisha, they think of a glorified prostitute or call girl. This is far from the truth. Geisha’s are entertainers, and they are trained vigorously in art, music and dancing. If you translate Geisha into English, you get artist.
Being a true Geisha is an honor to the girls, who when they become full-fledged Geisha’s are then called geiko. If a girl begins her training to be a geisha before she is 21, she is called a maiko, meaning child dancer. A girl or woman can become a geisha even if she wasn’t a maiko, but if she had been a maiko she would enjoy much more prestige. Continue reading »
The White Frontier: Female Photographer Captures Beautiful Images Of Canada’s Most Remote Regions In The 1900s
Geraldine Moodie overcame harsh conditions to become western Canada’s first professional female photographer, capturing beautiful images in the country’s most remote regions. An exhibition, “North of Ordinary: The Arctic Photographs of Geraldine and Douglas Moodie”, is at Glenbow, Calgary, 18 February – 10 September.
Inuit women and children at summer camp, Fullerton Harbour, Nunavut, August 1906:
Geraldine Moodie/The Guardian
Moodie was born in 1854 in Toronto, and after a move to England she met and married John Douglas Moodie in 1878, and had six children. Continue reading »
Photographer Emily Lauren Wants To Change The Way We See Female Beauty
It is time to redefine what it means to be beautiful and embrace what makes us all unique. Over 80 girls talk about the critical issues that affect body image in this new book by Emily Lauren Dick. This inspirational self-help guide is full of interesting facts and information, work sheets and photographs of real girls. A must have for any girl who feels their body does not fit into society’s standards. Continue reading »
Femme Fatales: Mug Shots Of Female Criminals From Early 20th Century Australia
Intriguing mug shots of female criminals, taken directly after they were arrested and charged at a police station in New South Wales, Australia, from around the turn of the twentieth century. The photographs come from the Sydney Justice and Police Museum.
Alice Adeline Cooke (pictured above) was convicted of bigamy and theft. By the age of 24 she had amassed an impressive number of aliases and at least two husbands. She was described by police as ‘rather good looking’. Continue reading »
How Female Disney Characters Would Look If They Were Men
Ariel
Sakimichan is the pen name of a young Canadian artist that is well known for her digital paintings. Such paintings include personified animal characters from Disney and Warner Brothers, including Simba and Bugs Bunny, as well as other fan art pieces that range from Naruto to Cartoon Network shows. Some of these fan art pieces include gender bends, where a female character is redesigned to be a male character, or a male character is recreated as a female. Continue reading »
Isosceles: Unique Female Lingerie Inspired By Geometry And Architecture
Isosceles is a unique, independent lingerie label making waves out of London with their debut collection. Deriving their name from geometry, their designs swathe the female body in an architectural rainbow of graphic and figure-flattering neon shapes. Continue reading »
Mugshots Of Female Nazi Concentration Camp Guards While Awaiting Trial In 1945
These black and white portraits of the female prison camp guards which were taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp, while they were at Celle awaiting trial in 1945.
Juana Bormann: sentenced to death. Continue reading »
Stunning Digital Female Portraits By Irakli Nadar
Most people agree that portraits are the most difficult subjects to paint. It’s not easy—especially for a beginner—to look at another person and draw and or paint them as they are in front of you or on a photograph. Irakli Nadar is an up-and-coming portrait artist who was a CG modeller before he chose to get into illustration. Continue reading »
Sweet Illustrations And Vector Portraits By The Chinese Female Artist Shingudoo
They really are some nice pieces. Unfortunately, I’m unable to figure out a way to for you to preview them without first going to her gallery on DeviantArt. I found this. Continue reading »
Vintage American Teen Girls’ Hairstyles – Female Students Of The High Schools In California From The Late 1960s To Early 1970s
These are what female students at high schools in California from the late 1960s to early 1970s looked like. Continue reading »
National Geographic’s “Women of Vision” – A New Generation of Female Photojournalists
Some of the most powerful narratives of the past decade have been produced by a forward-thinking generation of women photojournalists as different as the places and the subjects they have covered. National Geographic’s “Women of Vision” exhibit features the work of 11 photographers and is on display at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta until January 3, 2016. Continue reading »
This Female Artist Creates A Superb Scary Face Paintings
Meet the mum who transforms every night into a range of creepy characters. Nikki Shelley, 33, uses face paints to create her scary monsters, zombies and ghouls – but she has had no training in the dark art and taught herself from the comfort of her own home. Continue reading »
Japan’s First Female Photojournalist Is Still Shooting At The Age Of 101
At 101 years old, renowned Japanese photographer Tsuneko Sasamoto continues to express her artistic voice and capture stunning images. Considered to be her country’s first photojournalist at the age of 25, Sasamoto has been documenting history for over 70 years, including pre- and post-war Japan. Her photographs highlighted the country’s dramatic shift from a totalitarian regime to an economic superpower, and the social implications that arose from it. Continue reading »
A Controversial Ad Shows Female Tech Founders And CEOs Coding In Their Underwear
With its brand-new Ada Collection — named after Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer—underwear company Dear Kate is taking a rather non-traditional approach to advertising. Continue reading »
Yung Cheng Lin’s Human Art Illusions Address Female Body Modification
Taiwanese artist Yung Cheng Lin, commonly known as 3CM, visualizes themes of women’s issues, social standards, and body modification through a photographic lens. The artist interprets these subjects through simple tools and materials that interact with a human body to reveal a message and convey an idea. Red string, push pins and roses literally intersect the female figures in the photographs, creating striking and somewhat alarming visual compositions that come to life through digital manipulation. Continue reading »
Beautiful Redhead Female Portraits by Maja Topčagić
Maja Topčagić is from Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina and she currenyly works as a computer science teacher in Bihac. She is also a freelance photographer and finds inspiration everywhere she travels. Movies, books, music and videos motive her to capture different photos. Continue reading »
Delightful Portraits Turn Little Girls Into Inspiring Female Role Models From Throughout History
To celebrate iconic heroes throughout history, photographer Eunique Jones came up with the project, “Because of Them, We Can.” It originally featured young kids dressed up as important African Americans to celebrate Black History Month, but Eunique has expanded the project to feature great women of history to celebrate Women’s History Month. With the right hair, the right clothes, and the right attitude, little girls are transformed into iconic women of today and years past . These photos remind all of us, both young and old, that there is a great amount of potential inside every little person. Continue reading »
