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How to Photoshop the Tourists Out
After seeing this image floating around the internet that promised the ability to "delete tourists from your travel photos," I felt compelled to fact check the claim.
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Intimate Distances: Kris Graves’ Cold Comfort
The Icelandic landscapes in Kris Graves’ photographs are not pristine, not all of them. There’s a road here, a guardrail there, the lights of a distant town beneath a neon-green aurora borealis.
Opinion
Museum of the City of NY Wants Your Photographs of Hurricane Sandy
The Museum of the City of New York is planning an exhibition of photographs from Hurricane Sandy for the one-year anniversary of the storm. And importantly, the organizers aren't just interested in professional pictures; they want submissions from anyone and everyone with images to share.
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The Repurposed Beauty of Former Movie Palaces
There's repurposed architecture all over New York City, from banks that have become grocery stores to a water tower becoming a speakeasy, but the most monumental transformations are definitely to be found among the city's old cinema palaces.
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Found Stereoscopic Photos Make World War I Come Alive
Last year, the New York Public Library turned old stereoscopic photographs into internet-friendly GIFs with an addictive online tool called the Stereograminator. Now a Toronto-based photography studio and graphic design shop has done the same with a series of found images of World War I, resulting i
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Vice and Virtue: Helmut Newton's World Without Men
BERLIN — A week ago, Vice magazine gambled on a potentially-sexist-but-potentially-thought-provoking fashion spread — and lost. “Last Words” featured fictionalized portraits of female authors looking unaccountably sexy moments before or after their suicides: a slender Sylvia Plath poised before an o
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Cruise Through Urban Decay in New Explorable Photographic Map
New York has a lot of urban ruins for a city so constantly developing, but they can be easy to miss in the sprawl. Now a new map of photographs takes you into some of these hidden places.
Opinion
Female Suicide as Fashion, Courtesy Vice Magazine
Let's start at the beginning. Vice magazine recently published a fashion spread from its new Women in Fiction issue. Titled "Last Words," it features seven models posed as female writers who committed suicide (or in one case, attempted to) at the moment of their deaths.
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Photography at Great Heights
During a particularly arduous training climb on California's Mt. Baldy, Los Angeles–based creative director and photographer Michael Gabel had an epiphany about the link between an image and the altitude at which it was taken. "I was set on 6,000 vertical feet in six miles and something clicked abou
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Graveyard People: Photographs of the Beautiful Dead
The art of memorial sculpture has by its nature an emotional resonance due to its role in honoring the dead, but there's a living, human beauty to it as well. It's these aspects of cemetery sculpture that Italian photographer Mattia Mognetti captures in his 2013 Graveyard People series.
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Weeping Skeletons and Cardboard Swans: The Surreal Dreams of a Fashion Photographer
As dreams are the fragments of personal memory colliding into our sleep, it makes sense that "dreamscapes" imagined by a prominent fashion photographer would be rich with sleek surrealism and carefully staged beauty.
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Beyond the Creep Factor: Postmortem Photography as Remembrance
With the arrival of accessible photography came a developed culture of portraiture for not just the living, but the dead. Up until the 1830s with the creation of the daguerrotype, creating an image for remembrance of your loved ones was reserved for the rich, who could commission paintings. Yet with