Stunning archival photos of vintage NASA (and NASA predecessor NACA) facilities.
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The early-20th-century photo of French boxers that inspired this new gem from Sophie Blackall, one of the finest illustrators working today.
Also see Blackall on creativity and the secrets of subversive storytelling.
“It’s irrelevant to me who they are,” he says. “All that matters is if it’s a good picture or a bad picture. That’s all I care about.”
A good picture for him revolves around a moment. A glance, a breath. Something that peels back the façade and reveals the personality of the subject.
“Photography is just the technique, it’s the grammar, but it’s never the content,” he says.
Legendary photographer Platon, who has taken portraits of some of the world’s greatest leaders, shares his secrets of ego-wrangling.
After shirtless Mark Twain, nature-lover Hermann Hesse in nature, au naturel.
Rare Lenticular Clouds
The stunning meteorological phenomena of lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) is a rare spectacle. Looking more like UFO’s than clouds, they are created by three conditions: warm and moist air, winds with constant height and something big, like a tall mountain. When a current of air hits an obstacle in its way, it begins to travel upwards and starts to condense forming a lens-shaped cloud with multiple layers.
Both absolutely fascinating and absolutely stunning. Complement with The Cloud Collector’s Handbook.
T. S. Eliot meets Stravinsky.
The human eye is one of the most powerful machines on the planet: It’s like a 5000-megapixel camera that can run in bright light, near-darkness, and even underwater.
And yet our eyes an imperfect: What a camera sees that our eyes don’t. Complement with 100 ideas that changed photography.
Exploded Flowers by Singapore-based photographer Fong Qi Wei is the most breathtaking floral art since Andrew Zuckerman’s Flower.
Reconstructinist Billie “Lady Day” Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 – remember her with William Gottlieb’s iconic portrait, 1947.
Stunning photomicroscopy of diatoms, the microscopic algae that form the base of the food chain and produce 20% of Earth’s oxygen.
Complement with these breathtaking photomicrographs of seeds.
I Am Packed – Air New Zealand photographs travelers’ belongings, unpacked. The style of the photographs, as well as the concept, is strikingly similar to The Burning House, which captures what people would take with them if their house was on fire.
