Extraordinary Black And White Portraits Of ’60s and ’70s Celebrities Taken By David Bailey
Mick Jagger, 1964
After having been fashion photographer, John French’s, assistant, David Bailey begins the 1960s with a contract with Vogue and rapidly becomes a leading figure of the Swinging London scene, chronicling the unrestricted existences of models and musicians. Continue reading »
Color Portraits Of Immigrants At Ellis Island
Many of the 12 million people who entered the US through New York’s Ellis Island wore traditional dress from their homelands. The early 1900s images by chief registry clerk Augustus Francis Sherman have been brought to life by colorists at Dynamichrome. The photos will form part of a book called The Paper Time Machine, by Wolfgang Wilding and Jordan Lloyd, which is currently being crowdsourced.
An Italian woman circa 1910 wearing a traditional homespun dress and shawl. (Photo by Augustus Francis Sherman/New York Public Library/The Guardian) Continue reading »
Before The Photoshop: Headless Portraits From The 19th Century
The 19th century is generally remembered as a time of science and technology, when the ideas of Charles Darwin and the telegraph of Samuel Morse changed the world forever. However there was a lighter side to the Victorian era. A number of Victorian photographers combined images from more than one negative to create illusions or novelty portraits. “Headless Photographs” featured men and women with “their heads floating in the air or in their laps”. Continue reading »
Underwater Portraits Of People Diving Into A Freezing 4°C Dunking Pool
Photo by Daan Verhoeven
There was a freezing 4°C (39°F) dunking pool at the freediving world championships in Turku, Finland… and photographer Daan Verhoeven did not want to let it go to waste. As the competitors took their shocking dunk into the freezing cold water, he was there to capture their reactions. Verhoeven is an award-winning freediver himself, and most of his portraits involve capturing the sport in action. These… well these are just fun. Continue reading »
Photographer Uses 160-Year-Old Camera To Take Eerily Beautiful Portraits
Giles Clement is a contemporary photographer who likes to do things the old-fashioned way, because the Nashville-based creative makes eerily beautiful portraits uses camera equipment made in the 1800s. Clement uses both tintype (a photograph taken as a positive on a thin tin plate) and ambrotype (an early type of photograph made by placing a glass negative against a dark background), two techniques that were popular in the 1850s and the 1860s, and as you can see from the pictures below, the end result is both haunting and arresting. Continue reading »
Portraits Of Homeless People And Their Dreams Of Old
Photo © by Horia Manolache
For his new project The Prince and the Pauper, San Francisco-based photographer Horia Manolache connected with homeless people, learned their stories, and shot two portraits of each of them: the first shows them as they are now, and the second portrait shows them in the life or career they had once dreamed about. Continue reading »
Beautiful Photo Portraits Of Australian Women Painted In Vibrant Colors
As part of FLAIR Melbourne – a Flinders Lane art festival – Melbourne’s Lisa Minogue presents stylised photographic portraits of Australian women of colour, their faces painted vibrantly to accentuate their individuality and encourage the viewer to study each face more closely. Minogue asked each woman the same question: “What do the words “coloured girl” mean to you?”.
Ayah. “When I was at primary school, all these kids would touch my hair and rub my skin to see if the colour would come off. I would think, “It’s just skin … what do you expect?”. Continue reading »
Detailed Animal Portraits Meticulously Painted Onto Delicate Feathers
Using feathers of wild turkeys and macaws as her canvas, Krystle Missildine paints intricate acrylic portraits of animals, ranging from small birds to big cats and everything in between. The texture of the feathers naturally adds a wispy visual effect to the painted animal’s fur, producing a strikingly realistic image. The gifted artist has made a career out of pet portraiture—including ones on custom-made ornaments—but only recently decided to venture into the art of painting on feathers, using a molted feather from her Lutino Cockatiel as her very first quill canvas. Continue reading »
Contrasting Portraits Show How A Smile Can Change Your Perception Of Someone
Photo by Jay Weinstein
During a trip to Bikaner in India, photographer Jay Weinstein was near a train station when a man on the street caught his eye. Weinstein was keen to photograph the man but stopped short due to the subject’s stern and intimidating façade. After avoiding him and proceeding to capture other subjects, the man called out to Weinstein, saying, “Take my picture too!” Continue reading »
James Bullough Paints Realistic Portraits With A Fractured Edge
Artist James Bullough (previously) channels the spirit of graffiti and street art in his incredible figure paintings. He combines a realistic style with a geometric twist that breaks his paintings into fractured imagery, creating an additional element of line and shape. Each image is close to Realism, as his figures look like they are out of a photograph. Continue reading »
Beautiful Portraits Of Gorgeous Japanese Women By Kato Yasuo
Sorry, but no proper information given about this Japanese artist. Visit his Tumblr and Facebook. Or just enjoy! Continue reading »
Artist Duo Uses Twigs And Flowers To Create Intricate Portraits Out Of Mother Nature
Brooke and Vicki‘s introduction to art was somewhat the same, just generations apart. Vicki was inspired by her mother (Brooke’s grandmother) – a designer and photographer – whose decorating of their 1960’s ranch in the California valley was effortlessly modern and way ahead of its time. Continue reading »
Illustrator Draws On Her Self-Portraits To Create Fun, Whimsical Images
Based in Brisbane, Australia, Lauren Carney is “a polly pocket sized artist” with “a fine appreciation of all things handmade, arty, crafty and vintage”. Not only does she create wonderful illustrations, she also has a knack for combining her drawings with her photographic self-portraits to produce delightful and whimsical images. Continue reading »
Dramatic Portraits With Something To Hide By Kurt Staudinger
Tattoo artist Kurt Staudinger creates intense portraits that visually pop from the skin. The realistically-rendered pieces utilize a soft, diffused approach that adds an eerie quality to the subjects’ personas. Their glassy eyes pierce us with a knowing gaze, as if they’re about to reveal a dark, hidden secret. Staudinger remains quiet about his characters, however, giving us no context about who they are or what they’re up to—this only fosters a sense of mystery about them that you could ponder for the rest of your life. Continue reading »
Beautiful Portraits Of Women During The Later 19th And Early 20th Centuries
Constant Puyo, 1903
Pictorialism, an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality. The Pictorialist perspective was born in the late 1860s and held sway through the first decade of the 20th century. It approached the camera as a tool that, like the paintbrush and chisel, could be used to make an artistic statement. Thus photographs could have aesthetic value and be linked to the world of art expression. Continue reading »
Attractive Giant Stencil Portraits By The Portuguese Street Artist Daniel Eime
Daniel Eime is Portuguese artist whose stencil artworks always try to escape the general technique with static painting and spray texture. Black and white faces are the central bases that he uses until today, always with paint brush. With the street as their best space to paint, he already integrated work into various initiatives such as spaces decorations, promotional events, solo and group exhibitions, urban interventions, street art festivals and publications in magazines and books. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Impressive Portraits Using The Humble Kitchen Salt
Norway-based Croatian tattoo artist Dino Tomic creates beautiful drawings on large canvasses with salt, only to erase his works that takes hours, sometimes days to bring to life. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures Stunning Portraits Of Her Cat Through The Seasons
Photographer Magdalena Grześkowiak continues to photograph her beautiful pet feline ‘Kate’ through the seasons. She uploads images of ‘Kate’ basking next to the fireplace during winter, flaunting a stunning floral head wreath during spring, enjoying the outdoors through summer and frolicking in autumn leaves on Instagram account ‘cat_effect’. Continue reading »
Artist Paints Hyper Realistic Animal Portraits That Place Your Own Pet In Historical Settings
Always wanted to do something special to honor your beloved pet? Look no further! Dutch artist, Tein, creates these wonderful, custom made animal portraits by using a digitally morphed images — placing your pet in historical settings. Continue reading »
By The Danger In Her Eyes: The Hauntingly Beautiful Portraits By Elena Sai
Elena Sai (Elena Zaitseva) is a talented digital artist from Kiev, Ukraine. In each portrait Elena combines realism with creepy features and makes a breathtaking disturbing masterpiece. 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 »
Beautiful Women Portraits By Marta Bevacqua
A great photograph? “The atmosphere that moves something inside the viewer, that makes him fly with imagination, feel emotions or think about something.” 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 »
These Photo Portraits Of People Watching Porn Are Funny, Sweet And Very Awkward
Last week, we looked at a project from a Brazilian photographer who invited friends over and took their photos after one, two and three glasses of wine. That seemed like a fun exercise in shedding inhibitions. This week, we’re featuring a project from Trinidadian-born, New York City-based photographer Patrick Struys that was surely a lot more awkward for the people involved. Continue reading »
Prisoners Draw Portraits Of Rich And Famous People Who Really Belong In Jail
For over a year, Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider asked prison inmates to draw portraits of CEOs, executives and other powerful people who committed crimes against the environment, economy and society and yet haven’t served any time. The powerful project is called “Captured: People in Prison Drawing People Who Should Be.” Alongside the portraits, “Captured” lists the crimes perpetrated by the pictured and the artist. Continue reading »
