Category: photo

• RFK funeral train / A breaking up in inside art, photo, visual · Jun 10, 20:29

  The New York Times recently ran some photos that were taken from the train carrying Bobby Kennedy’s body between Washington to New York. The photos themselves are amazing documents of a nation in mourning, people from all walks of life lining the tracks, holding signs, saluting or just watching, but they’re also beautiful — saturated [...]

• Dismissed as chance / Chip Kidd’s New York Times in photo, visual · May 9, 20:56

  Chicago. A man is about to get on a routine flight. Suddenly he pauses and decides to walk away. He doesn’t know why. An hour later the plane goes down in flames. It’s dismissed as chance … Britain. A woman has an image of a black mountain that’s moving, with children underneath it. Two hours [...]

• Flickr / Okay, I take it all back. in flickr, photo, visual, web · May 7, 18:11

  See, I criticize Flickr, and then this thing comes along to demonstrate once and for all its inherent goodness. No Flickr stylez or post-processing necessary. Via Sorry I Missed Your Party and BuzzFeed.

• The Flickr style / Ugh in flickr, ixd, photo, visual, web · May 7, 01:16

  It’s hard to ignore the fact that Flickr promotes a distinct style of photography; I say “promotes” because Flickr’s “Explore” tab displays photos that are deemed “interesting” by Flickr’s “interestingness” algorithm, and the photos in this area are generally characterized by what many are now calling “Flickr style.” This is shorthand for “extensively post-processed” — [...]

• Photos / Found on FFFFOUND in photo, tip, visual, web · Oct 3, 00:37

  Some great stuff on FFFFOUND, a social bookmarking service for images. It’s in private beta, and I’ll be curious how they maintain the current, continual high quality, as in images like this …

  Like this stuff by Andrei Robu.

  Via kottke.