The Fuhrer’s Frauleins
Hitler Had one or two good ideas and one of them was the power of the Image. Here he “cozies up to a bunch of schoolgirls while they crowd around him in awe. Mr Jaeger [...]
400
This serene image is lots and lots of self-portraits taken by Clickflashwhirr (not her real name). They have then been distilled into one image by Tiemen Rapati who downloaded 400 photos (added 100 others) and created this [...]
SHOEBOX
This is the blurb on the FREE new iPhone App called Shoebox. “Shoebox, the iPhone App, makes it easy to scan old paper photos and share them with family and friends. It helps you bring albums, [...]
Work it!
We are surrounded by images of women (and to a lesser extent men) ‘working it’ and throwing shapes for the cameras. These end up in magazines, on billboards and on the TV. Most of them [...]
Beckett’s Crooked Fingers
Samuel Beckett gave us Waiting for Godot, one of the great plays of the 20th century. He died in 1989, and just two years before that, the publicity-shy playwright was captured in some rare footage that [...]
Are You Photo Genetic?
Portraits Génétiques – Un travail de recherche photographique sur les ressemblances génétiques entre membres de même famille. My french isn’t thé best but I think this translates roughly as … this photographic work examines the [...]
Life ain’t perfect
If you’re in a hurry, give this one a skip. Then again, if you are in hurry, maybe this is just what you need – as it is guaranteed to SLOW you down. Relax – [...]
It’s an amazing feeling
“It’s an amazing feeling – like putting on pants straight out of the dryer”. Plywerk is a noun and it is also a verb, like fish and Sheep the name remains the same if you [...]
When I grow up
If I wasn’t working in Graphic Design I’d like to be a Photo Detective when I grow up. I love looking at the detail in photographs – looking at the reflection in someones eyes the [...]
Oh, to be Physically Perfect
There are some very interesting images on the Print Collection website. Take for example Miss DuBois Ferguson, “who has been judged physically perfect” photographed by the National Photographic Company between 1909 and 1925. The tagline for [...]
