These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
The homeless rarely find themselves in the limelight, but amateur photographer Lee Jeffries has made them the focus of his work. He’s produced a haunting set of black-and-white portraits of people living on the streets of Europe and the U.S. Every face is shown in incredible detail and is full of emotion. More after the jump.
This woman’s tumblr has incredible photography with seemingly no theme except that they’re beautiful.
Following Hurricane Irene, my heat pump stopped working. Thankfully, the good folks at my insurance company picked up the tab for a brand new Lenox pump, with an indoor heat exchange. Unfortunately, the new unit was about 4 inches deeper than the old unit, forcing the installers to rip off the front of my utility closet.
So with a few supplies from The Home Depot and some elbow grease, I managed to restore the closet to it’s previous design, plus about 4 inches more. I’m still waiting for two cabinet doors to arrive from eBay, but you can see much of the home improvement work in the gallery below.
I found these originally on Flavorwire and fell in love with Bruce Davidson‘s collection of photos of NYC Subway photos from the 1980s. They remind me of the gritty, realistic eyes of Melissa Weimer’s Lake. Sky. Vans and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe‘s latest Anthology: Faces, Places, Spaces. Here’s an excerpt from the original article:
Children hovering by the subway window to the glow of Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel. A man cowering from a pointed gun. A young vandal at work in a tagged subway car. A punk brooding at a station. In the mid-80s, photographer Bruce Davidson captured New York City’s subway commuters in a ground-breaking series first published by Aperture, freezing the subject in powerful, split-second vignettes.
The Illinois-born photographer has described his subjects as “the people in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks, and closed off from each other.” Decades later, the images seem familiar yet distant, cinematic yet tangible. See flash-frightened women in furs and vigilante crime patrollers in our gallery and look for the third edition of Subway available soon from Aperture.
Photographer Caren Alpert took pictures of food under a microscope, producing amazing textures perfect for desktop wallpapers.
Read about the project on Caren Alpert’s site.
