Photography
Everyday mysteries: Saul Leiter, a master of lyrical color street photography
Saul Leiter, Snow, 1970. Source: The Saul Leiter Foundation.
Saul Leiter, perhaps the most famous non-famous New York street photographer, has just passed away at age 89. A pioneer who worked mostly in color in an age when street photography was still a predominantly black and white medium, Leiter captured the ineffable details than can only be seen and appreciated if you slow down and pay attention.
Notes the obituary in today’s New York Times: (more…)
Russian smokestack implosion
Says English Russia, which posted a nice series of photos of this smokestack collapse:
After the Soviet Era too much of objects stay abandoned in Russia and with the modern rise of development of new business and residential areas more and more are need to be removed from the terrain. Many controlled demolition companies act on this market, sometimes they have some nice objects to remove like those two old factory chimneys.
Miroslav Tichý and The Smudge
The Centre Pompidou in Paris is currently showing an exhibit of the Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý. Here is the Pompidou’s introduction, illustrated with images I found online:
