‘This Is Mars’: A US Satellite Took These Stunning Black-And-White Photos Of Planet Mars
Space lovers rejoice with ‘This Is Mars’ photo book.
Each photo upon the pages of ‘This Is Mars’ originated from a map created by the U.S. observation satellite, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO. The map was broken down into thousands of gigabytes and edited by the French designer and publisher, Xavier Barral. The book is a study in both Mars’ visual wonder as well as the planet’s scientific history. Continue reading »
Extraordinary Black And White Portraits Of Celebrities Taken By Irving Penn
Isabella Rossellini
Best known for his fashion photography, Penn’s repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats; ethnographic photographs from around the world; Modernist still lifes of food, bones, bottles, metal, and found objects; and photographic travel essays. Continue reading »
8-Year-Old “Siberian Snow White” Surprises Modeling Agencies With Unique Beauty, Gets Flooded With Offers
Meet Nariyana – an 8-year-old albino girl that is stunning modeling agencies from all over. Nicknamed the Siberian ‘Snow White’ because of her stunning pale hair and fair complexion, Nariyana lives in Yakutia, Siberia. Out of her whole family, she is the only one with blonde hair and the first albino from both sides of the family. Continue reading »
Brazilian Photographer Captures New York City Winter In Black And White
The series, captured by Nei Valente during the winter of 2017, shows the brave people that leave their homes during a snow day in NYC. Nei Valente a 27 years old brazilian street photographer and designer. He is currently based in NYC. 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 »
Striking Black And White Photos Show The Brutal Lives Of Gun-Toting Depression Era Mobs In America
From cold-blooded murders to running battles with the police, these black-and-white pictures shed light on the brutal lives of gun-toting gangsters during the American Depression. The amazing images show notorious mobsters such as Al Capone who committed violent crimes in their search to get rich quick during the early 1930s. Continue reading »
I’m Siberian: Fabulous White Beaches Of Siberia By Alexey Lovtsov
Alexey Lovtsov is an professional wedding and portrait photographer from Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, Russia. For his crazy project “I’m Siberian”, Alexey captured beach party with cocktails and volleyball on the frozen lake Baikal in Siberia. Dazzling white ‘sand’, perfect sunshine, blue waves on the horizon, friends, a great mood… and -20C (-4F – fixed xD). Continue reading »
Black And White Portrait Photos Of Celebrities Taken By Norman Seeff In The 1970s And 1980s
The legendary Los Angeles-based photographer Norman Seeff has shot candid portraits of everyone from Steve Jobs to Patti Smith, but is perhaps best known for his images of musicians—The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, and Carly Simon, to name a few.
John Travolta
In the years 1970-1980, Seeff inaugurated his creative sessions with artists and celebrities. His photographs of musicians and actors were often regarded as the defining images of artists at the height of their career. Here’s a selection of 15 amazing black and white photographs taken by Norman Seeff from between the 1970s and 1980s. Continue reading »
The White House’s Pete Souza Has Shot Nearly 2M Photos Of Obama, Here Some Of His Favorites
For the last 8 years, Pete Souza has been the Official White House Photographer. Over the course of President Obama’s two terms, Souza estimates he will have taken nearly 2 million photographs. You can find over 6,600 on the White House’s official Flickr account. Souza has captured some incredibly powerful, heartfelt and poignant moments of the President over the last 8 years and a gallery of 16 photos has recently gone viral, claiming to be Souza’s personal favorites. Although he has denied this claim, the photos are still amazing. Continue reading »
Striking Black And White Portraits Of Celebrities At The Golden Globes 2017
It was another star-studded evening at the Golden Globes this year. The 74th annual broadcast featured a bevy of performers that spanned film, television, and music, bringing the best of the best together for a night of glamour and celebration. Fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott were in attendance, rubbing shoulders with the nominated actors, musicians, directors, show runners, and esteemed presenters. Continue reading »
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 »
‘South Park’ Irks White House, Scientology With Trolling Mobile Billboards
South Park is still the master of ruffling feathers. In an effort to promote the 20th season, which premiered Sept. 14, mobile billboards have been placed in seven locations around the country depicting scenes that coincide with the trucks’ placements. The marketing ploy did not go over so well with three locations: the White House, the Lincoln Memorial and the Church of Scientology. Continue reading »
Extraordinary Black And White Fashion Photography By John French In The 1950s And 1960s
John French (1906–1966) was one of London’s top fashion photographers of the 1950s and 1960s, an era when those who wore and photographed clothing for a living could become famous overnight. The models he worked with included the most famous of the time and many were debutantes who went on to become well-known society figures. John persuaded the art editors of the national press to use his flawlessly lit images of top models and his work appeared in virtually every newspaper and magazine. Continue reading »
Surreal And Imaginative Black And White Photos That Will Confuse Your Eyes
Using a little Photoshop wizardry, Russian photographer Alexey Menschikov is able to conjure up all kinds of unusual and strange images loaded with repetition, constantly toying with the idea of shadow and light. He initially photographs all kinds of subjects, from people in the street and urban architecture to various animals like birds, cats and dogs. Once he’s collected enough source material, he then adjusts, clones and repeats elements before arranging them into a surreal patchwork of shadows, movement and patterns. Continue reading »
Very Sharply Defined Rare White Curtain Auroras Seen Over Finland
White Northern Lights in Finland – isn’t it amazing that this kind of stuff is real? Continue reading »
Beautiful Black And White Portrait Photography By Daria Pitak
Black and white portraits easily succeed in reflecting the true emotion of the subject. In this post, we have compiled a beautiful black and white portrait photography by Daria Pitak. She is a Poland based photographer specialized in fashion and portrait photography. Continue reading »
Extremely Rare White Giraffe With Ginger Mane Spotted In Tanzania
Omo the giraffe is fifteen months old. She has survived her first year despite being born with leucism – a condition which means only some of her skin cells can make pigment, which gives her almost white skin. She was photographed by Dr Derek Lee, founder and scientist at the Wild Nature Institute, whilst she was roaming the Tarangire National Park, in Tanzania. Continue reading »
31 Stunning Black And White Photos Of Europe In The Fifties Through A Soldier‘s Lens
It all started in December 1954, when the then 22-year old soldier Bill Perlmutter boarded a troopship to Germany, to start his new assignment as a photographer for the U.S. Army. The first images from Perlmutter’s Rolleiflex were taken during the rough transatlantic voyage. Even though he had never left the United States and was a bit apprehensive about his future, Perlmutter was “looking forward to photographing Europe and visiting all those wonderful places that I had read about and seen in the movies.” His first leave after his deployment to Augsburg Germany, brought him to Paris, the city of light and home to many of his favorite photographers. Continue reading »
Surreal Black And White Analog Photo-Montages By Thomas Barbèy
Thomas Barbèy grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, across the street from the “Caran D’ache” factory, the largest manufacturer of art supplies. He started drawing seriously at the age of 13, using black “encre de Chine” and gouaches for color. His influences were Philippe Druillet, Roger Dean and H.R. Giger. Continue reading »
Beautiful Rare Black And White Photographs Of 20 Year Old Norma Jeane Dougherty (Later Marilyn Monroe) On Malibu Beach In 1946
Before there was Marilyn Monroe there was a girl named Norma Jeane Dougherty who met André de Dienes in 1945. Together they travelled as lovers taking photographs that would help catapult the cherub-faced redhead into superstardom. Continue reading »
An Artist Infused Colour Into A 100-YO Black & White Photo And The Result Is Beyond Stunning
Black-and-white photos have their own charm but they often make us wonder the alternative – would the people or objects captured look different in colour?
Artist Marina Amaral decided to give history an entirely new perspective when she started infusing colour into pictures captured in monochrome. Putting Photoshop to some good use, Marina reproduced many iconic pictures by bringing them to life in a celebration of colours, preserving their innate authenticity all the while. Continue reading »
Poetic Black And White Watercolors Of Children With Wild Animals
Indonesian artist Elicia Elidanto creates delicate watercolor paintings which depict the intimate relashionship between children and animals. Her black and white watercolors show silhouettes of small children standing in front of majestic and dangerous creatures. Continue reading »
Beautiful Vintage Black And White Fashion Photography By Georges Dambier In The 1950s
Rejecting the standard technique of capturing emotionless models, French photographer Georges Dambier captured his models in the Fifties looking ambivalent towards their clothing and the camera, instead laughing, enjoying exotic locations like Marrakesh, Corsica, Sicily, Cannes, Palma de Mallorca and riding in cars and boats. He captured the most beautiful women of his time, including Brigitte Bardot, Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Dorian Leigh and Suzy Parker. Continue reading »
25,000 White Roses Made Of LED Lights For Valentine’s Day
Photo by Kin Cheung / AP Photo
“Light Rose Garden” is originated from South Korea, an art installation project featuring 25,000 white roses made of LED lights for Valentine’s Day. Continue reading »
Rainbow Stairs Add Color To This Otherwise White Room
Andy Martin Architecture were asked by their clients, a family with two young sons, to design the renovation of their home in London. A mostly white play area was included in the renovation, but it also received a pop of fun color from some rainbow stairs, where each stair is a different color. Continue reading »
