Monette and Mady are Parisian twins who dress exactly alike and share their everyday lives as models and dancers.
Maja Daniels followed them to make this beautiful photo essay of their relationship.
The very first photo of the moon, taken by John William Draper in 1839.
Draper immigrated to the United States from England and became a chemistry professor at NYU. This daguerreotype print was the first of a series of silver platinum plates he shot using a telescope. Draper was also the first person to shoot a portrait in America, a photograph of his sister Dorothy-Catherine . In 1864, he became chairman of the American Photographic Association.
Pair with Ordering the Heavens, a visual history of humanity’s quest to depict the cosmos before telescopes.
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of course it always looks easy, doesn’t!
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Photographer Peter Belanger on Shooting for Apple
Look at the crazy setups he gets, just for those simple and beautiful iPad and Macbook shots!(via The illusion of simplicity: photographer Peter Belanger on shooting for Apple | The Verge)
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I just finished reading a book about this…so interesting.
Exploring the Exclusion Zone photos by Hélène Veilleux
After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, the Ukrainian government created the Exclusion Zone, an area of restricted access meant to contain the degenerative effects of the radioactive fallout from the blast and a way to keep curious eyes away from one of the worst nuclear power plant accidents in history. However, despite a natural population that still persists to this day, tourists can be granted day passes to explore the irradiated ruins of Chernobyl and neighboring city Pripyat. Hélène’s photo journal documents her travel into the Zone, uncovering the remnants of lives left behind in the two ghost towns, which still stand to this day as twin sacrifices to the alter of scientific progress.
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Check out this excellent timelapse of various places in San Diego!
WELCOME HOME TIMELAPSE (by Michael Shainblum)
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“Facies Dolorosa” by Dr. Hans Killian
“Originally published in 1935, Dr. Hans Killian created this photographic study of the faces of patients awaiting death for doctors and physicians. This powerful and disturbing document sensitively captures the beauty and fragility of the human condition. Despite the difficult subject matter, each plate provokingly captures these moments with empathy. Facies Dolorosa holds an important place in the history of photography, cited by many as a photographic masterpiece.”
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Mark Bramley composes breathtaking landscape photographs in wide open spaces.
He captures everything from the Bonneville Salt Flats above to the underbelly of sprawling overpasses. Click through below to see Mark’s full Landscape portfolio in all of its high resolution glory.
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From the brilliant series “Where Children Sleep” by James Mollison.
Top to bottom: China, New York, Senegal, Tokyo
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Ronald Fischer, Beekeeper by Richard Avedon, 1981.
To get the bees to land on Fischer, photographer Richard Avedon enlisted the help of UC Davis entomologist (and professional bee wrangler) Dr. Norman Gary, who smeared the beekeeper with queen bee pheromone and a dash of plant extract similar to peppermint — a method he devised himself.
Norman Gary, a professor emeritus, also has quite the impressive imdb page — with bee wrangling credits ranging from My Girl to The X-Files.
Invasive Species by Dillon Marsh
In 1996 a palm tree appeared almost overnight in a suburb of Cape Town. This was the world’s first ever disguised cell phone tower.
Since then, these trees have spread across the city, South Africa and the rest of the world. Invasive Species explores the relationship between the environment and the disguised towers of Cape Town and its surroundings.
