from the series “The Black Stuff”

from the series “The Black Stuff”

from the series “The Book Collection”

from the series “Lines“

A bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, Germany advertises their goods with a wall of around 120 bikes mounted on the building’s exterior in lieu of a sign. via Flavorwire

I love this photograph.

The Aquazanies were a troupe of boys who performed comedy and diving acts in the early 1940s at city pools, including East 54th Street in Manhattan and the Aquacade at Flushing Meadows.

Seeing Jonah Samson’s photographs was the highlight of my day (hugs to Jonathan). For some reason, I have an affinity for miniature dioramas and I fell in love these…especially ’cause they have a dark twist.

“The Storyteller”

“Flooded Grave”

I had the pleasure of seeing a retrospective of his work at the SFMOMA two years ago and was totally blown away. Digital interpretations of his work don’t do them any justice – they lack the sense of scale, cinematic quality, and the rich colors that can only come through in it’s true form…as a back-lit cibachrome photograph. Regardless, I wanted to share it in case you weren’t familiar with his work.

“Canadian artist Jeff Wall is widely recognized as an innovative picture-maker whose dynamic photographs, both color and black-and-white, have affinities with painting and cinema. Their sense of scale comes from Wall’s interest in the tradition of painting, and their methods of production from his fascination with cinematography. A number of the pictures are photomontages — combinations of different negatives digitally interwoven to create engaging narratives — often illuminated on light boxes.”

Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/266