Sun Ruins

The Sun 1957 by Aspen Mays:

"The Sun 1957 is the collective title of 25 silver gelatin prints that depict the Sun from a mid-century international survey of sunspots. Finding the film negatives separated from contextualizing logbooks and labeled only by month and the year 1957, I loosely followed this organizing principle by making contact prints of the negatives in grids. The prints were all made onsite using vintage paper (11.5” x 15.5”) that I found in the darkroom, and the unpredictability of the expired paper resulted in splotches and artifacts on the print surface that call to mind the sunspots themselves. The prints are assembled chronologically by month into a larger grid to formally suggest the shape and structure of a calendar. The internal logic of such a calendar creates an encompassing yet mysterious picture of the Sun for that year. Some months are represented by numerous negatives (and therefore prints) while other months are recorded by far fewer images. There is no record of November."







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All You Can Feel

"Since the 1950s, we in the western world have increasingly come to understand our most intimate desires and experiences, as the products of a so-called “chemical self”. We are able to explain moods, angers, and diseases both physiological and psychological through an imbalance of substances in the body. All of this, of course, takes place against the backdrop of a constantly shifting legal and political climate regarding the regulation of different types of mood altering substances. What all these substances actually look like when their essence is visually depicted?

Sarah Schönfeld squeezed drops of various legal and illegal liquid drug mixtures onto negative film which had already been exposed. Each drop altered the coating of the film. Much like the effect of some of these substances on humans, this can be a lengthy process – sometimes one that can barely be stopped. She then enlarged these negatives including the chemical reaction of the particular drug, to sizes of up to 160 x 200cm. All of the substances behaved very differently: the shapes and colors that appeared showed unique characteristics and revealed unique internal universes. Schönfeld explores the possibilities of photography at the frontiers of what can be visually portrayed– the interface between representation and reality""






”All you can feel”, Artist book published by Kerber Verlag.

Le Havre

“Taking pictures is like fishing or writing. It’s getting out of the unknown that which resists and refuses to come to light.” – Jean Gaumy





Jean Gaumy : “polaroids” series

Antares with Cygnus

Stunning image...



"The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard, is seen in this false color infrared image, as it launches from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. Cygnus is on its way to rendezvous with the space station. The spacecraft will deliver about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo, including food and clothing, to the Expedition 37 crew."

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

ESA

Bit like the view from the airplane window... but on steroids - photographs of Earth from the ESA Archive:






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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlist for the 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.






Winners will be announced on 18 September.

Via theguardian

Alien Landscapes on Planet Earth

Crazy awesome pictures Sakurajima, one of Japan's most active volcanoes, by photographer Martin Rietze

London Grammar

Music video for London Grammar's new song Wasting My Young Years - shot on 35mm film, using a 'homemade' camera rig consisting of 625 individual pinhole cameras that are exposed at the same time:



A little look at how director Bison made the video:

Reef Dwellers

Mesmerizing macro photos of underwater corals by Los Angeles-based photographer Felix Salazar - to brighten up Monday morning...







Via my modern met

Limited Minds Can Only See the Limits of Others

Inside Iceland’s Downed DC-3 by Cole Rise






I think it could be this one... lot's of blogs believe it was sometime in the seventies, but there's no records of a an air accident in Iceland involving a DC-3 in the seventies.

Darkened Cities

“To show him stars is to help him dream again.”



Darkened Cities by French photographer Thierry Cohen – a blend of city scenes with the sky from one place, from less light polluted locations that fall on the same latitudes, superimposed upon a darkened cityscape from another.





Via Uponpaper

Ápsis

Ápsis photographs by Henrik Isaksson Garnell






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