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"Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing-which means that,..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:39:57 -0700

“Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing-which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.”

- Susan Sontag, On Photography

Sue Ogrocki

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:20:29 -0700

Sue Ogrocki

Nick Oxford

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:40:58 -0700

Nick Oxford

ahcomunicacao: Para mudar isso, o fotógrafo Gideon Mendel...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:40:14 -0700

ahcomunicacao:

Para mudar isso, o fotógrafo Gideon Mendel iniciou uma série chamada Drowning World, que retrata lugares devastados pela água, desde Reino Unido, Austrália, Índia até Haiti, Paquistão e Tailândia.

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Photographer Gideon Mendel started a series called Drowning World, which depicts places devastated by water, from the UK, Australia, India to Haiti, Pakistan and Thailand.

"I hated my face, I found it odious, and even suspected that there was some mean expression in it,..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:20:29 -0700

“I hated my face, I found it odious, and even suspected that there was some mean expression in it, and therefore every time I came to work I made a painful effort to carry myself as independently as possible, so as not to be suspected of meanness, and to express as much nobility as possible with my face. “Let it not be a beautiful face,” I thought, “but, to make up for that, let it be noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.” Yet I knew, with certainty and suffering, that I would never be able to express all those perfections with the face I had. And I would have been quite satisfied with intelligence. Let’s even say I would have agreed to a mean expression, provided only that at the same time my face might be found terribly intelligent.”

- Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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Sun, 12 May 2013 19:40:32 -0700

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Sat, 11 May 2013 21:20:21 -0700

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Sat, 11 May 2013 19:40:56 -0700

ismael ferdous

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:48:47 -0700

ismael ferdous

Women in the city of Wagha stood in line Saturday to vote....

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:48:37 -0700

Women in the city of Wagha stood in line Saturday to vote. Pakistanis went to the polls in high numbers on Saturday, in a vote that carried the historic prospect of the country’s first fully democratic political cycle despite fresh violence from Taliban insurgents. By Tyler Hicks

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Fri, 10 May 2013 21:20:13 -0700

fotojournalismus: Galveston, Texas, 1967. [Credit : Danny Lyon]

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:40:17 -0700

fotojournalismus:

Galveston, Texas, 1967.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

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Thu, 09 May 2013 21:20:04 -0700

Drowning World, Gideon Mendel

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:40:06 -0700

Drowning World, Gideon Mendel

slouchingtowardsbeirut: [via abustaif: A Lebanese bride poses...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:20:12 -0700

slouchingtowardsbeirut:

[via abustaif: A Lebanese bride poses next to the flag of Lebanon on a street in Beirut. Life appears to go on amid the destruction five years after the end of the civil war that ravaged the country and left it a political, economic, and physical shambles.]

godsavethedairyqueen: nina hartmann

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:40:17 -0700

godsavethedairyqueen:

nina hartmann

Alfred Eisenstaedt. Ellis Island.

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:20:12 -0700

Alfred Eisenstaedt. Ellis Island.

realityayslum: Heinz Heid - Village in southern Italy, 1960s.

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:40:17 -0700

realityayslum:

Heinz Heid - Village in southern Italy, 1960s.

Ralph Crane

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:20:25 -0700

Ralph Crane

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:41:28 -0700

Ralph Crane