This coffee lid made me do a double take. Turns out Letica is a U.S.-based supplier of paper and plastic packaging with a … um … “familiar” logo.
For a second, I thought Leica was making precision, German-engineered beverage lids that make a distinct and beloved sound when you pop them onto your paper cup.
The Journal of Artists’ Books presents JAB27, in which they invited artists, writers, and thinkers from across all eras of the Visual Studies Workshop’s history to explore the photobook form.
I was asked to [ READ MORE ... ]
Cmdr Edward Steichen photographed above the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. November, 1943.
Photo by Lt Victor Jorgensen.
(via Wikipedia)
Imagined response to the above caption (by c. 1988 Nikon owner): “Yeah, unlike those miserable pricks and their Canons!”
The Canon v. Nikon debate is easily one of the goofiest things in photography (see also: photographer’s [ READ MORE ... ]
Garry Winogrand and his 1957 Ford Fairlane, which was given to him by Lee Friedlander. New York City, early 1964. Photographer unknown.
Collection of the Center for Creative Photography / University of Arizona / Garry Winogrand Archive.
Hellen van Meene’s website has a large selection of her gorgeous portraiture. It also has a brief F.A.Q. where she throws the book at a certain type of photography teacher.
A generic query from [ READ MORE ... ]
Gaze upon some curvy, eye-popping chairs from a 1961 issue of Playboy. The men of Mid-Century Modern design posed for this provocative shot featured with a profile of their work titled “Designs for Living.”
Pull the curtains and [ READ MORE ... ]
These are cracking me up … many more to see at the Animated Albums site.
[ Imported from /// Visual Thought ]
The New York Times Lens Blog asked readers to make a picture at 15:00 U.T.C., Sunday, May 2. Dubbed “Moment in Time”, over 10,000 images from the project were posted today.
I spent some time [ READ MORE ... ]
Y’know, with all this wailing and gnashing of teeth about the death of blogging, it’s really encouraging to see a magazine like Artful Blogging step in to help preserve the grand tradition of online publishing.
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David Lasky’s contribution to the recent Free Comic Book Day was this silly / smart meta-comic, meant to be printed on newsprint and magnet-ed to fridges everywhere.
Have a look at the[ READ MORE ... ]
There’s a thorough attention to the craft of light in these portraits by James Rajotte. They’re from a project billed “Rochester Portrait Inventory” taken on his front porch in the [ READ MORE ... ]
According to a new blog – Marina Abramovic Made Me Cry – “some people couldn’t handle the heat” of sitting across from (and staring at) the artist during her show “The Artist [ READ MORE ... ]
Some, uh, “coverage” of weirdo MoMA-goers getting up close and personal with the nude performers in Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present:
“He proceeded to slide his hand onto my ribs and back and then touched [ READ MORE ... ]
The Visual Studies Workshop is holding their annual benefit auction this Friday, April 9th in Rochester, New York. Photographs, prints, and artists’ books for every collector’s budget will be sold to benefit this [ READ MORE ... ]
