Cool art/photography

[Andrew]

The New York Pubic Library has an excellent collection of images by Lewis Wickes Hine (Documentary Photographs, 1905-1938). The photoset focuses mainly on labor and immigrant life in New York (and throughout the East Coast). The images seem to earnestly embody all of the early 1900s cliches (newspaper boys, tenement baseball, iron workers on buildings) you could shake a stick at. That said, I think the photos are amazing and show the growth and development of a country and a group of people. Some of my favorite images below and the full set can be seen here.

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=col_id:175&sScope=images&sLabel=Lewis%20Wickes%20Hine:%20Documentary%20Phot ographs,%201905...

http://www.acontinuouslean.com/wp-content/gallery/npl_workers/worker-on-empire-state-building-signaling-the-hookman.jpg

[Joe]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/the_decade_in_news_photographs.html

Dang.

[Andrew]

WHY?

Man just before i go to sleep.


just kidding. i flapped so hard.

[Andrew]

http://blog.gettyimages.com/2007/05/30/memorial-day-at-arlington-national-cemetery/

There is no god.

The most memorable photograph I've seen in the past couple of years is by John Moore, a Getty photographer, taken in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day weekend of last year.

I find it an unspeakably poignant image; I come back to it again and again. The remarkable physical beauty of the young woman, the angel-wing-like curves of her hunched shoulder blades, the soft backlighting, the bits of gaudy color beyond her, the two people watching way beyond the graves, everything about it is just completely evocative.