Results tagged “photography”
Sociological Images has a great set of photos that show how factories camouflaged themselves during World War II. Especially interesting is this explanation they picked up from The Library of Congress World War II Companion:
A year before the United States entered the war, Kansas City's Art Institute offered the country's first classes in industrial camouflage, and other schools soon followed suit. In a short-lived blackout measure, steel mills in Gary, Indiana, were shrouded in thick smoke to hide their location from enemy places. The gold dome of the Massachusetts state house in Boston was painted gray, so it would not stand out, and elsewhere other important secular structures were topped with church steeples... The most ambitious deceptions, which fooled even local pilots, were the fake suburban neighborhoods and small towns built of plywood and chicken wire atop aircraft factories one the West Coast... Small plywood houses, rubber cars, clotheslines, and artificial plants dotted the three-dimensional landscape (p. 179).
Tags: history, photography, war
There's something endlessly interesting about abandoned locations (see: abandoned detroit). This round comes from Vice who explore an abandoned island in Japan:
An hour or so's sail from the port of Nagasaki, the abandoned island silently crumbles. A former coal mining facility owned by Mitsubishi Motors, it was once the most densely populated place on earth, packing over 13,000 people into each square kilometre of its residential high-risers. It operated from 1887 until 1974, after which the coal industry fell into decline and the mines were shut for good. With their jobs gone and no other reason to stay in this mini urban nightmare, almost overnight the entire population fled back to the mainland, leaving most of their stuff behind to rot.
And here are some more photos.
Tags: abandoned, japan, photography
Ever since I read the really long Weekly Standard piece on Detroit I have been fascinated by the city. Here are two little photo tours that paint a bleak picture: Time's Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline and the Belle Isle Zoo which was closed in 2002.
Tags: detroit, photography
Over at Seed there is an amazing narrated slideshow with photos from the storage areas of the Natural History Museum. It's really amazing stuff, from elephant skulls in a attic to drawers full of butterflies and birds.
To go along with the photos, there is an article from Carl Zimmer about the first time he found himself behind the displays. He explains his amazement with what he say: "'You've never been back here?' Kellner asked. The answer was obvious; I was staring like a gob-smacked tourist at the rows of storage cabinets, which loomed overhead like wardrobes for giants. I knew that natural history museums kept fossils and other objects in storage, but I assumed that most of their material was on display, back in the other world."
Tags: history, photography, science
I love pictures of grocery stores and I love pictures of people jumping
Hyper, by Denis Darzacq, is just about perfect.
Tags: photography
Wow, the first photos from the "Where the Wild Things Are" movie look amazing. It's being directed by Spike Jonze and written by Dave Eggers (of McSweeney's fame (and, of course, is based on the book by Maurice Sendak).
Tags: movies, photography
We all know they dress up fast food for the ads, but it's amazing to see the side-by-side comparison (I think the Subway sandwich, the Whopper and the Egg McMuffin actually look better than the picture I think).
Tags: advertising, fastfood, photography
Interesting move by Corbis. They're going to let bloggers use their photos for free and embed an ad in it. According to the article, they're also going to offer "bloggers the opportunity to earn ad revenue based on how many times Web users click on the images posted to their blogs, according to the Web site." I think more and more companies are going to start looking into this revenue sharing route. Seems like such a no-brainer.
Tags: advertising, business, media, photography
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