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Ever wonder what it would be like driving through Denali National Park with the Northern Lights dancing overhead? While this is no substitute for seeing it in person, we thought we’d share this stunning image taken this winter.
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A color-blocked building in Spain. Lovely!
(Source: trendland, via ashleyeleigh)
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Edward Steichen, The Flatiron, 1904, printed 1909
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Steichen added color to the platinum print that forms the foundation of this photograph by using layers of pigment suspended in a light-sensitive solution of gum arabic and potassium bichromate. Together with two variant prints in other colors, also in the Museum’s collection, “The Flatiron” is the quintessential chromatic study of twilight. Clearly indebted in its composition to the Japanese woodcuts that were in vogue at the turn of the century and in its coloristic effect to the “Nocturnes” of Whistler, this picture is a prime example of the conscious effort of photographers in the circle of Alfred Stieglitz to assert the artistic potential of their medium.
Steichen and Stieglitz selected this photograph for inclusion in the “International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography” held at the Albright Art Gallery (now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) in Buffalo, New York, in 1910. The exhibition of six hundred photographs represented the capstone of Stieglitz’s efforts to promote Pictorialist photography as a fine art.
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Black Hollycock Blue Larkspur, 1930
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 40 inches
I bought a print of this piece some years ago at the Georgia O’Keefe museum in Santa Fe, and it pitifully sits in wait in its plastic sleeve at the corner of my bedroom for me to frame it.
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Built during the Safavid period, it is an excellent example of Islamic architecture of Iran, and regarded as one of the masterpieces of Persian Architecture. The Shah Mosque of Esfahan is one of the everlasting masterpieces of architecture in Iran. It is registered, along with the Naghsh-i Jahan Square, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its construction began in 1611, and its splendor is mainly due to the beauty of its seven-colour mosaic tiles and calligraphic inscriptions.
Photograph 1 by: Omid Jafarnezhad
Photographs 2 - 6 by: ‘Horizon’ on Flickr.
(Source: blue-voids, via thetinhouse)
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“Interior of migratory fruit worker’s tent. Yakima, Washington.” (1936)
Talk about making the most of the light that’s available.
If he’d taken this photo outside the light would have been far too bright for a good image; you can see it how it burns through the fabric of the tent. Instead he got her at the table, half in and half out of shadow, with just enough gauze between the light and the subject to give her a heavenly glow. He must have been in love with her, and so am I.
Copyright Arthur Rothstein
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