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Carnaby Street in Color, from 1968
10.22.2011
04:07 pm
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Color photographs and footage of London’s Carnaby Street from 1968. Doesn’t look all that swinging, does it?
 
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Via How to be a Retronaut
 

 

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10.22.2011
04:07 pm
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Mike Sacks’ Photos of TV
09.17.2011
09:32 am
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TV’s dumb, sometimes unintentionally dumb, as can be seen from Mike Sacks’ Photos of TV. Sacks is the author of the “laugh-out-loud/piss-yourself-funny” Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason and has a fun collection of photographs from TV, over at his home page.

Check here for more of Mike‘s photos.
 
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Previously on Dangerous ~Minds

Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason


 
With thanks to the brilliant Steve Duffy!
 

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09.17.2011
09:32 am
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Exclusive interview with legendary photographer Brian Sweeney
09.06.2011
07:33 pm
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It was his art teacher who first suggested he should pick up a camera. “My paintings were shite. I had a wee camera but didn’t really use it much till I went to college where I did this design for print course thing at the GCBP (Glasgow College of Building and Printing). Most of the photographers who were there at the time thought I was studying photography I spent so much time in the darkroom.”

That’s when Brian Sweeney found he had more than just a natural talent for photography. A talent that would lead him to become one of the most sought after, award winning photographers in the Europe. 

It was probably something that as always there in the background, as he explained in this exclusive interview with Dangerous Minds:

Brian Sweeney: ‘A-ha, the background. Funnily enough, I met up with some old schoolfriends of mine recently, who informed me I was always an arty-farty little bastard. I do remember being told by the headmaster that school was for learning and not a bloody discotheque - I’ve always loved that word ever since during that period we were all dressing up as Dexy’s Midnight Runners, something I still haven’t grown out of yet - well, that 80s period anyway.’

It was his fascination with music and fashion and soccer that led Sweeney to start documenting the clubs he and his friends hung out in.

Brian Sweeney: ‘I’d always been around bands from an early age. We were going into night clubs like Lucifers (now the Sub Club) and Fury Murrys to see a lot of later Factory bands. Then Acid House kicked off and I was sort of there shooting DJs, my mates etc, the scene basically for fun…..then ID, The Face, Melody Maker needed shots of the regional scenes and my name popped up quite a lot, so I started shooting for them up here [in Glasgow]. It just sort of kicked off…I then started shooting for all the labels, just in the right place at the right time. Everything happened very quickly from being on the dole and arsing around nightclubs to well earning money and shooting celebrities and arsing around nightclubs in London.”’

Arsing about or not, Sweeney is a legendary figure in the photographic world, known for his professionalism, enthusiasm and boundless energy, going from one location to the next, fashion shoots, adverts, documentary work, magazine work - his creativity never stops. Sweeney’s been described as the equivalent of Hunter S Thompson with a camera - but only far more talented - while his looks have been described as a grizzled Santa’s helper or a more handsome Billy Bob Thornton, take your pick. 

See more of Brian’s work here and here.

Selection of photographs from Were Antelopes Sleep below, for details check here.
 
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More from Sweeney and a selection of his photos from ‘Were Antelopes Sleep’, after the jump…
 

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09.06.2011
07:33 pm
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Edwardians in Color
08.26.2011
06:59 pm
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The long summers of Edwardian England were a product of the 1920’s imagination, when those who had been children during that decade looked fondly back to a time of seeming innocence. This in part became a theme central to a generation of British artists and writers - Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden, Nancy Mitford, George Orwell, Francis Bacon, Evelyn Waugh - all Edwardian children, who produced work that reflected the loss of certainty and identity caused by the Great War.

These photographs of Edwardians in color capture some of the wistful nostalgia that the ubiquity of cameras and film usage helped develop during the century.
 
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Previously on Dangerous Minds

Color Photographs of Russia from a Century Ago


 
Via How to be a Retronaut
 
More Edwardians in color, after the jump…
 

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08.26.2011
06:59 pm
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‘City of Shadows’: Alexey Titarenko’s haunting photographs
08.25.2011
06:11 pm
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Alexey Titarenko has photographed Saint Petersburg since he was 8-years-old. In fact, he says, he has dedicated his whole life to the city. Titarenko sees his photographs as reflecting the history of his city, and Russia, over the past 20 years. 

“Through the prism of my native city, I attempt to show events that occurred not only here, but throughout the country - the changes, the catastrophies, and the human tragedies, which have swept this city and the people of this land.”

In the 1990s, Titarenko was working on a series of photographs about totalitarianism, centered on the signs and statues that were crumbling around him as Soviet communism failed. Poverty spread as rationing was introduced.

“Food was rationed. To obtain food in exchange for the ration tickets, people would run from one store to another, with a desperate air, and their eyes full of sorrow. I’d place my camera at the subway entrance and take photographs.

“The activity around the station, which was located in a shopping district, overlapped with the sensations I felt when I listened to certain musical compositions, Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony in particular, the movement entitled “At the Shop”.

“The mass of people flowing around the subway station formed a sort of human tide, giving me a sensation of unrealness, of phantasmagoria, These people were like shadows, one would meet in the Underworld. I decided to express that feeling in my work, to convey my personal expressions. I had to find a visual metaphor that would enable the viewer to share my feelings as acutely as possible. That is what prompted me to try a long exposure process.”

Titarenko’s pictures were haunting, disturbing, like malevolent ghosts crowding the frame. He called the series City of Shadows,
 
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Via My Modern Met. With thanks to Tara McGinley
 
More hauntings pics, and rest of documentary on Alexey Titarenko, after the jump…
 

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08.25.2011
06:11 pm
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500 People in 100 Seconds
08.23.2011
07:19 pm
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Yep, what it says: 500 peeps in 100 secs by Eran Amir.

500 people holding more than 1,500 (!!!) developed pictures all around Israel, creating a smooth music video within their hands.

(Best viewed not on full screen).

Impressive.
 

 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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08.23.2011
07:19 pm
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‘Time Escape’: Incredible time-lapse photography
08.22.2011
04:29 pm
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Time Escape - a short edit of neat time-lapse photography made during Time Fest 2011 and shot by Tom Lowe, Vince Laforet, Carson Garner, Tom Guilmette, Shawn Reeder, Dustin Kukuk and Eric Kessler.
 

 

 

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08.22.2011
04:29 pm
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Interesting People and their pets
08.04.2011
06:31 pm
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In The Cat Inside William Burroughs paid a great compliment to his favorite animals:

“My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.”

Now, isn’t that a true thing? That our relationship with animals can have such a benevolent influence. I’m spending the week looking after a friend’s dog (a cute, wee strawberry-blonde, Lakeland Terrier), who has, over the years, taught me much about myself, for which I will always be grateful.

In thanks for that, here is a small selection of some interesting people and their lovely animal companions.
 
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James Dean and his cat, Marcus, a gift from Elizabeth Taylor, who took custody of Marcus after Dean’s death.
 
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Frank Sinatra and Ringo.
 
More animal pics, after the jump…
 

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08.04.2011
06:31 pm
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What the TV Sees: Andris Feldmanis’s Television Portraits
07.06.2011
06:53 pm
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Apparently, in Estonia the average person spends 3 to 4 hours a day watching television. A fact which photographer Andris Feldmanis has used for the basis for his latest project TV Portraits.

Feldmanis’s idea is quite simple but highly effective, as he has reversed the point of view (a bit like My Game Face or a photographic version of The Royle Family), creating portraits of people “posing for their television sets.”

“It is not a critique of mass media and its influence, it is a document of what the TV sees.”

See more here.
 
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Via Booooooom, with thanks to Tara McGinley
 
More ‘TV Portraits’, after the jump…
 

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07.06.2011
06:53 pm
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Patrick Winfield’s Polaroids
07.06.2011
05:53 pm
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Since 2006 photographer and artist Patrick Winfield has been creating these giant Polaroid composites.

“My work is about juxtaposing various elements to make something new, playing with the familiar to form some fantasy. A recycling of imagery to create new symbols. I draw with my camera and film or with found images and the xacto knife.”

Check more of Winfield’s work here, and his blog here.
 
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More of Winfield’s beautiful Polaroids, after the jump…
 

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07.06.2011
05:53 pm
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Owls with Funny Expressions on their Faces
07.03.2011
07:20 pm
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Mildly Diverting‘s Flckr Stream of funny, cute, and just plain lovely photos of owls. See more here.
 
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More funny faced owls, after the jump…
 
With thanks to the wise and wonderful Steve Duffy
 

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07.03.2011
07:20 pm
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Paul Ripke’s amusing photos of parents and children
06.25.2011
11:12 am
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The talented writer and DM pal, Steve Duffy has a knack for finding weird and wonderful sites. This amusing gem comes from German photographer Paul Ripke‘s impressive homepage, which shows, as Mr Duffy points out, photographic proof that “the child is father to the man.”
 
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With thanks to Steve Duffy
 
More happy families, after the jump…
 

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06.25.2011
11:12 am
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Awesome People Hanging Out Together
05.28.2011
07:42 pm
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The site Awesome People Hanging Out Together has rather fine photographs of celebrities from times gone-by just hanging out together.

Here you’ll find William Burroughs having dinner with Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger; Grace Slick and Janis Joplin playing-up for the camera; and the usual suspects backstage at concerts. There are also a couple of fun video clips, including a chat-show meeting between Alfred Hitchcock and James Brown. It’s a bit like Us or Hello! Magazine with a degree in Pop Culture, and you can see more here.
 

 
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Grace Slick, Janis Joplin
 
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Jack Nicholson, Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty
 

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05.28.2011
07:42 pm
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Key Writers: Photos of writers and their typewriters
05.13.2011
08:01 pm
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Hunter S. Thompson at work in his ranch in Aspen, 1976
 
Since Mark Twain battered out the first typed manuscript in 1883, writers have had a love affair with their typewriters. To mark the end of the manufacture of these instruments for creativity, the Guardian published a fine selection of key writers at work on their typewriters.
 
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Patricia Highsmith at work in her home in Moncourt, near Fontainebleau, in 1976
 
More key writers after the jump…
 
With thanks to Ken Cargill, via the Guardian
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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05.13.2011
08:01 pm
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Clark Little’s amazing photos captured from inside breaking waves
05.11.2011
06:21 pm
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Best known for his beautiful photographs taken from inside breaking waves, Clark Little has celebrated his winning the 2010 Oceans Photography Award, with his picture of a surf tube “Twister”, by releasing some new pictures. Here are just a few of them.

Check here and here for more.
 
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More amazing photos after the jump…
 
Via the Daily Telegraph
 

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05.11.2011
06:21 pm
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