teenage wasteland: japanese youth in revolt 1964

i highly recommend checking out the rest of these awesome photos from Life magazine photographer Michael Rougier.  find out more about this photo essay here.

colby college mountain day

k, so I live in Toronto, Canada. no mountains here and no such awesome tradition as 'mountain day' - a student celebration in the north eastern U.S. where classes are cancelled without prior notice and the whole student body heads to the freakin mountains. apparently this has been going on since 1838. this is first i've heard of it and i think it's pretty darn rad. the photos you see here are from a Life magazine feature on Colby College Mountain Day in October of 1950. so very charming. more here.

daniel gebhart de koekkoek

i am hopelessly enamoured with the photographs of Daniel Gebhart. such an eye for beauty and a gift for storytelling. see more here. *sigh*

uncommonly good

photo by Gemma Gonzalez

recently discovered a blog called Not Common People that features interviews with young photographers as well as examples of their work and links to their sites. i dig it. maybe you will too. go see.

photo by Maja Malou

tree,line

wow, it's been almost two months since i've posted anything. let's get right to it then, shall we? i've a few marvelous things i'd like to draw your attention to today. let's begin with this extraordinary photography series by Zander Olsen, called 'Tree,Line' in which Zander reconstructs horizons by wrapping trees in white cloth. i could stare at these images for hours. you really must click on the images to see them larger. more here.

sonya kozlova

click on these photos by 18 year old Sonya Kozlova to see them larger. check out her website for more lovely images.

the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire

ever thought about what you'd take with you if your house was on fire? i figure, in a panic, my hands would be pretty full with cat and dog to carry anything else, but i've a few things in mind if i had time to prepare - mainly boxes of old journals and photographs. if you've ever wondered what other poor souls would gather in the event of such a disaster, go to theburninghouse.com (from whence came these photos), where people submit pictures of all the stuff they'd risk arm and leg for. it's interesting to see so many different representations.

lukasz wierzbowski

i have spent a good portion of my afternoon mesmerized by the work of Polish photographer Lukasz Wierzbowski, who shoots exclusively with film. these are but a few of the photos i found most inspiring. click on the images to enlarge, and do visit his website to see more.

tony katai

photographer Tony Katai is based in Detroit. see more of his work here.

dear photograph

Dear Photograph is an awesome tumblr site where people are asked to submit "a picture of a picture from the past in the present". i'm totally gonna do this! these are just a few of my favourites, but there are lots more. go n see!

the making of a pin-up

found an awesome collection of 20 pin-up model photos with their resulting illustrations (click photos to enlarge). so neat! see the rest here.

vivian maier

Vivian Maier worked as a nanny in Chicago in the early 1950s. in her spare time, she walked the city streets with her camera, quietly documenting her surroundings. Maier's work went virtually unnoticed until 2007, when John Maloof, a street photographer himself, purchased a lot of 30,000+ negatives that had been seized from an unpaid storage locker at a small Chicago auction house . Maloof has since become a champion of the late photographer's work, which includes more than 100,000 photographs as well as documentary film and audio recordings. Vivan's work is truly astounding, and the quiet modesty of it all could just about drive me to weep. i had so much trouble choosing but a handful of photos to post here, and in the end i decided to post some of Vivian's self portraits, but not to visit the link above and see the rest of her work would be a disservice to yourself.