A photographer for over sixty years, Roger Mayne is best known for his post-war studies of London neighborhoods. Click-through for a photo slideshow of a selection of his work, now on display at the Gitterman Gallery: http://nyr.kr/N7zq0u
the camera collection (by antonio vicentini)
Emma Hack, Wallpaper Collection
‘A young child wearing an Indian headdress hides in a coal hole as he takes aim under the watchful eye of a friend.’
Photo by Thurston Hopkins (Getty Images).
life:
Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein.
Here’s Ralph Morse’s famous photograph of Albert Einstein’s office — just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it — taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955.
(see more photos here)
cy twombly: photographs 1951 - 2010
An exhibition held at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels featuring photographs taken by the abstract painter.
More information and other examples can be found at Minimal Exposition here
Switcheroo by Hana Pesut (via Joshua Jenkins)
Sony World Photography awards - in pictures
A selection of some of the strongest images from the professional and open shortlist for the 2012 Sony World Photography awards
(via guardian.co.uk)
life:
Exclusive, heartbreaking photos from the Lorraine motel on the day Martin Luther King died. (see more here)
Pictured: Theatrice Bailey attempts to clean blood from the balcony, hours after the 6 p.m. shooting.
“I don’t know if there were official people around taking notes and pictures and things like that. Nobody was there when we were there. And the fact that the blood was still on the floor, and this man is actually putting it in a jar … When you see a picture like that, God, it feels invasive.”
