Photographiant ses enfants avec sensibilité, Alain Laboile nous dévoile des clichés d’une grande beauté, comme des instants volés d’une belle journée d’été. Des images magnifiques en noir & blanc, figeant le temps et offrant par la même occasion des souvenirs impérissables pour sa famille à découvrir dans la suite.
Avec sa série « All You Can Feel », l’artiste Sarah Schoenfeld a décidé de montrer le vrai visage de différentes drogues telles que le LSD, GHB, la cocaïne ou l’héroïne. Une approche artistique de la dépendance aux médicaments et aux drogues dures est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Fantasy & Ecstasy, GHB & GBL.
LSD.
Ketamine.
Ketamine.
Speed & Magic Mephedrone.
Crystal Meth.
Explosion of Methylone.
Opium.
Pharmaceutical Speed.
Cocaine.
Adrenalin.
Caffeine.
Dopamin.
GHB.
Heroin.
Magic Mephedrone.
MDMA.
Orphidril.
Speed.
Valium.
Melatonin.
Solian.
Estrogen.
Angels Trumpet.
Chennye Randall, artiste basé à Seattle, imagine ce que les célébrités, les dirigeants du monde et les personnages fictifs ressembleraient s’ils étaient couverts de tatouages. La manipulation est à la fois étonnante et amusante et elle nous permet de voir ces personnalités avec un regard totalement différent.
John F. Kennedy & Jacqueline Kennedy.
Marilyn Monroe.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Prince William and Princess Catherine.
John Lennon.
Bryan Cranston.
Elizabeth Taylor.
Javier Bardem.
Spock (Leonard Nimoy).
Audrey Hepburn.
Bruce Lee.
James Gandolfini.
Jonny Cash.
Matthew Mcconaughey.
Willam Dafoe.
Janet Leigh (Psycho).
Découverte de Katja Kemnitz qui est une photographe travaillant les photos de corps humains, mais également des clichés où la nature est omniprésente comme vous pourrez le découvrir dans cet article ci-dessous. Des photographies fascinantes, où l’humain semble se fondre dans des espaces naturels et sauvages.
In a radical shift in its business model, Getty Images is now allowing users to embed watermark-free images on websites and blogs free of charge
An option to “Embed this image” has been added to images on the Getty site. Choose this option and users are given an embed code (similar to those used on YouTube) whereby the image can be embedded on the users’ site without any watermark. Instead, the image will carry a link back to Getty and a credit for the image and its photographer. Usage is restricted to editorial purposes.
As with YouTube, however, the linked content may be deleted at any time leaving users with a blank space on their site.
It’s a radical departure for Getty but one that follows a similar model to Imgembed, which we reported on last year, a service created by the same Singapore team behind Creative Finder and Design Taxi.
US site The Verge (read their full post here) quotes Craig Peters, a business development executive at Getty Images, on the rationale behind the move. “Look, if you want to get a Getty image today, you can find it without a watermark very simply,” he says. “The way you do that is you go to one of our customer sites and you right-click. Or you go to Google Image search or Bing Image Search and you get it there. And that’s what’s happening… Our content was everywhere already.”
Peters argues that if Getty provides a clear, legal path for using its images, publishers will take it, thus opening up new revenue streams for both Getty and photographers. Once images are embedded (using an iframe code) the company can in the future collect data on users and even implant ad messages replicating the success that YouTube has had with pre-roll advertising and ‘buy here’ options.
That functionality isn’t being employed as yet but appears to be one of a number of opportunities Getty is thinking about. But in the meantime, the embed option will at least credit both Getty and the photographer. “The principle is to turn what’s infringing use with good intentions, turning that into something that’s valid licensed use with some benefits going back to the photographer,” The Verge quotes Peters as saying, “and that starts really with attribution and a link back.”
Here’s what Getty’s Ts & Cs say about the usage of embeddable images: “Where enabled, you may embed Getty Images Content on a website, blog or social media platform using the embedded viewer … Not all Getty Images Content will be available for embedded use, and availability may change without notice. Getty Images reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove Getty Images Content from the Embedded Viewer. Upon request, you agree to take prompt action to stop using the Embedded Viewer and/or Getty Images Content. You may only use embedded Getty Images Content for editorial purposes (meaning relating to events that are newsworthy or of public interest). Embedded Getty Images Content may not be used: (a) for any commercial purpose (for example, in advertising, promotions or merchandising) or to suggest endorsement or sponsorship; (b) in violation of any stated restriction; (c) in a defamatory, pornographic or otherwise unlawful manner; or (d) outside of the context of the Embedded Viewer.
Getty Images (or third parties acting on its behalf) may collect data related to use of the Embedded Viewer and embedded Getty Images Content, and reserves the right to place advertisements in the Embedded Viewer or otherwise monetise its use without any compensation to you.”
More detail on how the embed system works here
Read BJP’s useful 10 facts you need to know about the service here
It’s a fascinating move by Getty, especially if/once they start to explore the potential of data collection and embedding ad messages. Photographers will be wondering when and how the promised new revenue will appear.
Après avoir déjà pu vous parler de la première vidéo sur Fubiz, le duo de réalisateurs Colin Delehanty & Sheldon Neill reviennent avec le 2ème volume de ce projet sur le parc national de Yosemite. Un rendu magnifique, rendant avec ce time-lapse un hommage vibrant au parc et aux montagnes de la Sierra Nevada.
Pour Vanity Fair, le photographe américain Mark Seliger a fait de jolis portraits des célébrités présentes lors de la cérémonie des Oscars 2014. Après la cérémonie, Bill Murray, Samuel Lee Jackson, Naomi Watts, Judd Apatow et d’autres personnalités se sont réunis pour un shooting glamour.
Bill Murray.
Lupita Nyong’o.
Sienna Miller.
Zooey Deschanel.
Neil Patrick Harris.
Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow.
Naomi Watts.
Paul Rudd and Adam Scott.
Reese Witherspoon.
Sofia Vergara.
Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson.
Conan O’Brien.
Allison Williams.
Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo.
Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeld.
Kerry Washington.
Lady Gaga, Nolan Funk and Donatella Versace.
Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak.
Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres.
Samuel Lee Jackson.
Selena Gomez.
To the outside world, surfers may seem like an obsessive bunch. Piling into a station wagon, driving for hours in search of rideable peaks in the depths of winter, shuffling across snow-covered trails in nothing but a few millimeters of neoprene is not…
Continue Reading…
Le photographe Mo Devlin basé aux Etats-Unis aime photographier en macro des fleurs gelées pour en faire des compositions abstraites. Il capture différents motifs, la lumière ainsi que la texture et les détails de chaque fleur glacée. Son magnifique travail est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Photo essay: French photographer Romain Veillon explored an abandoned town that is slowly being consumed by the Namib desert to create these images of once-opulent buildings filled with sand dunes.
The discovery of diamonds at the turn of the twentieth century prompted the establishment of Kolmanskop as a settlement for German miners, but it was abandoned just 50 years later when the diamond fields became exhausted and the value of the stones decreased. Now little more than a tourist destination, the ghost town is gradually disappearing under sand, so Romain Veillon paid a visit to document its remains.
The series is entitled Les Sables du Temps, which translates as The Sands of Time. Veillon hopes it will serve as both a memory of the perishing town and a reminder of the “strength of nature”.
Once rich and opulent, Kolmanskop is now a ghost town invaded by sand and lost in the middle of the Namib desert. But its history stays as short as it is surprising; founded after the discovery of diamonds by German settlers in 1908, Kolmanskop went through a real “diamond rush” and very fastly became the nerve centre of the area, due to its rich deposit of diamond. The legend says that even by night, you only had to go down to find diamonds in the sand, thanks to the moonlight.
Kolmanskop faced a striking prosperity that attracted many adventurers and other prospectors from across Africa, prosperity symbolised by the fact that Kolmanskop inhabitants used to get their clean water from 1000 kilometres away in Cape Town, or that they imported their champagne from Reims!
Kolmanskop emerged from the soil very quickly, as the new immigrants settled in the city. From a German inspiration, you could soon find there a hospital, a butcher shop, a bakery, an ice factory, a bowling alley, a casino, a school, a power plant and even a swimming pool. The hospital there received the first X-ray machine of the entire African continent, although the machine was mostly used to verify if miners had swallowed diamonds. At its zenith, Kolmanskop welcomed more than 1200 people and 700 families.
Unfortunately the drop of the diamond price after the First World War and the discovery of a bigger deposit south buried the last hope of Kolmanskop. Little by little the inhabitants quit the town, leaving behind them their houses and their belongings. By 1954, the city was entirely abandoned. Since then, it has slowly but surely become more and more covered by sand. Nowadays, Kolmanskop is only visited by the few tourists that venture into the isolated area.
With this set of photographs, I wanted to pay a tribute to this particular place and its past. For that, I have decided to underline the strength of nature that always takes back what is her’s, but also the ephemeral aspect of human constructions – symbolised here by the progress of sand and dunes through what remains of the city.
These silted doors are for me the symbol of an inevitable passing of time, reminding us that soon Kolmanskop will be no more and that we should enjoy it while it lasts. The light of the spot is also essential to me because it brings an atmosphere almost timeless and a strange sensation that is almost unreal.
You can lost in those dunes looking for the ghost of an ancient time, or trying to figure out what incredible stories must have taken place there.
The post Ghost town engulfed by mounds of sand
in photography by Romain Veillon appeared first on Dezeen.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
