Above: An animated GIF by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg.

Photography presents itself as the medium best equipped to capture the small, visual moments of our everyday life. But the drawback of a photo is it’s democracy: the lens sees everything at once, without favor for the thing the photographer is seeing.

The animated GIFs of Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg combine the stillness of photos with movements captured on video to create a beautiful, elegant mix of the two media.

[ From me to You ] (Beck and Burg’s Tumblr)

(via FastCoDesign)

Duane Michals’ The Bogeyman (1973), rendered as an animated .gif. I count five separate frames in this .gif, while the original piece is seven individual prints. Very cool, nonetheless. (found deep in the wilds of Photobucket)