1. mainemike: Threatening sky as a shower of graupel approaches.  New Gloucester, ME

    mainemike:

    Threatening sky as a shower of graupel approaches.  New Gloucester, ME

  2. i12bent: April 10, 1918 was the birthday of fine photo journalist Cornell Capa (d. 2008), whose brother Robert took perhaps the most famous war photograph of all time… Cornell Capa had a long career with LIFE and as a Magnum photographer… Cornell Capa: Attica Correction Facility, 1972

    i12bent:

    April 10, 1918 was the birthday of fine photo journalist Cornell Capa (d. 2008), whose brother Robert took perhaps the most famous war photograph of all time…

    Cornell Capa had a long career with LIFE and as a Magnum photographer…

    Cornell Capa: Attica Correction Facility, 1972

  3. yodamanu: Police, Strasbourg, March 2013.

    yodamanu:

    Police, Strasbourg, March 2013.

  4. oldsparky: Blues at the Maxwell Street flea market Chicago, 1947.

    oldsparky:

    Blues at the Maxwell Street flea market Chicago, 1947.

    (Source: flowerspower)

  5. thenoiseinme: Oliver Rath

    thenoiseinme:

    Oliver Rath

  6. cambridgenoir: Cambridge. It’s been a while, I reflected. But as I walked its glistening streets with their scurf of snow, bicycles chained to railings like stag-night victims, I knew I was home.

    cambridgenoir:

    Cambridge. It’s been a while, I reflected. But as I walked its glistening streets with their scurf of snow, bicycles chained to railings like stag-night victims, I knew I was home.

  7. liquidnight: Vivian Maier New York, NY, January 1953 [via My Modern Metropolis]

    liquidnight:

    Vivian Maier

    New York, NY, January 1953

    [via My Modern Metropolis]

  8. nythroughthelens: Under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. Midtown. New York CityI had a recurring dream when I was younger that puzzled me for years. It involved boarding a hovering bubble shaped vehicle and ascending over the skyscrapers until I was soaring under the bridges and through the cavern-like spaces of the city. It was euphoric but also terrifying at the same time. When I was older, I finally relayed the dream to someone and they laughed and asked if I had ever taken the Roosevelt Island tram when I was very young. I had no recollection of it. It prompted me to ask my mother if we had ever done such a thing and she said it was possible but she couldn’t remember a specific time that we would have done it (my mother, like me, is absolutely terrified of heights). It’s possible that my family took the tram to Roosevelt Island at some point and the experience embedded itself deep into my imagination where it mixed with other flights of fancy (pun intended) of flying through a Gotham-like city like Batman. So, when I found myself photographing the underbelly of the 59th Street Bridge (also known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge or just the Queensboro Bridge) late last week, it was hard not to recall those earlier dreams and feelings they invoked while I stood there waiting for the long exposure to capture 30 seconds of what had haunted me for years. The bridge is one of my favorite ones in the city. Its architecture is distinctive when viewed from the side but I absolutely love how slick and dripping-with-sci-fi-overtones it appears when viewed from below. The bridge travels from darkness into the light of a gleaming New York City as the water below it only stirs with the occasional disruption of a boat. You can also make out the cables that the Roosevelt Island tram travels on to the right of the bridge. —-View this photo with a comment thread on my Google Plus page—-Buy “Under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge - New York City” Posters and Prints here, email me, or ask for help.

    nythroughthelens:

    Under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. Midtown. New York City


    I had a recurring dream when I was younger that puzzled me for years. It involved boarding a hovering bubble shaped vehicle and ascending over the skyscrapers until I was soaring under the bridges and through the cavern-like spaces of the city. It was euphoric but also terrifying at the same time. When I was older, I finally relayed the dream to someone and they laughed and asked if I had ever taken the Roosevelt Island tram when I was very young. I had no recollection of it. It prompted me to ask my mother if we had ever done such a thing and she said it was possible but she couldn’t remember a specific time that we would have done it (my mother, like me, is absolutely terrified of heights). It’s possible that my family took the tram to Roosevelt Island at some point and the experience embedded itself deep into my imagination where it mixed with other flights of fancy (pun intended) of flying through a Gotham-like city like Batman.

    So, when I found myself photographing the underbelly of the 59th Street Bridge (also known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge or just the Queensboro Bridge) late last week, it was hard not to recall those earlier dreams and feelings they invoked while I stood there waiting for the long exposure to capture 30 seconds of what had haunted me for years. The bridge is one of my favorite ones in the city. Its architecture is distinctive when viewed from the side but I absolutely love how slick and dripping-with-sci-fi-overtones it appears when viewed from below. The bridge travels from darkness into the light of a gleaming New York City as the water below it only stirs with the occasional disruption of a boat. You can also make out the cables that the Roosevelt Island tram travels on to the right of the bridge.

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    View this photo with a comment thread on my Google Plus page


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    Buy “Under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge - New York City” Posters and Prints here, email me, or ask for help.

  9. i12bent: Anselm Adams at 111! Above: Moon and Half-Dome - Yosemite National Park, California, 1960.

    i12bent:

    Anselm Adams at 111!

    Above: Moon and Half-Dome - Yosemite National Park, California, 1960.

  10. retronewyork: 1950s Street Photos of New York

    retronewyork:

    1950s Street Photos of New York

  12. hobnobnoir: by Dennis StockNew York1950

    hobnobnoir:

    by Dennis Stock
    New York
    1950

  13. I need YOU! →

    yodamanu:

    Hi guys, being delusional and exceedingly optimistic when it comes to my hobby passion reason of living (for now), and I mean photography, I entered the 2013 International Street Photography Awards.

    In a sense, it’s absurd: lots of entries are ridiculously good. But, as goes  an old alsatian saying: “One cannot say you more than no”.

    So here I am, asking you my dear followers to have a look at my entry (and VOTE for it if you will, because there’s also a public prize based on votes). It’s a tight selection of 8 night street candids, all unstaged, uncropped or so, and shot handheld.

    I take advantage of that blog to thank each one of you for following me for more than year. Sharing some of my work, one thing or two I know about photography, some bits of my life, some portraits of my beloved ones, has been a tremendous experience for me.

    I know I truly suck at giving people writing me the feedback they deserve. Rest assured I work on that.

    Truly yours,


    Yoda

  14. luzfosca: Erika Schmachtenberger The Shadows are Getting Longer, 1930

    luzfosca:

    Erika Schmachtenberger

    The Shadows are Getting Longer, 1930

  15. Chicago, 1949, photo by Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine

    Chicago, 1949, photo by Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine