The Silence of Dogs in Cars

No doubt I have some die-hard dog lovers reading this blog, along with myself. I’m not sure how these photographs will go down. I can only admit that I’ve left my dog in the car for short periods of time when popping into a shop to do an errand, because I assumed they wouldn’t allow…

The Great and Ghostly American Road Trip

It’s all about taking that detour and finding the beautifully haunting moments of traveling through the unknown. Walker Pickering is a young photographer and photography teacher based not in his Texan hometown, but on the road. And you won’t find him on Route 66. He’ll be taking the back roads of America, where the kudzu* grows…

Welcoming the Parisian Winter Nights with Brassai

With the nights in Paris getting longer, the trees looking more naked and the cobblestones glistening with rainwater, I can’t help but be reminded of Brassai’s Paris de Nuit. The Transylvania-born photographer came to city of light in the 1920s to capture its notorious creatures of the night and what he found went on to…

Parisians reacting to the Naked Bottom

This is a charming little photo series that I want to share with you by the ever-relevant French photographer, Robert Doisneau entitled the very long-winded Tableau de Wagner dans la vitrine de la Galerie Romi, rue de Seine, Paris 6e. Phew. Taken in 1948, when Doisneau could often be spotted wandering the streets of Paris…

These Places Exist

I‘m having a bit of library-obsessed moment here if you don’t mind. I stumbled upon this photograph of the Library of the Kremsmünster in Austria and just had to see more of this magical place. Little did I know I was going to the find treasure trove that is photographer Massimo Listri’s work. He has…

And now, the Incredible Camera Van

When you’re driving around in the passenger’s seat of a car looking at the world outside, do you ever wish that you had a camera strapped to your forehead which could instantly take photographs of whatever your brain told it to? Maybe not … but California man Harrod Blank did and he made the concept…

15 Reasons why ‘Black and WTF’ is my new Favorite Tumblr

There are a lot of Tumblrs out there that stick a bunch of pictures up and don’t tell you anything about it. Black and WTF is a fascinating photoblog that’s dedicated to doing its homework on some of the wackiest, most inexplicable black and white photographs from the past. Some of the images and the…

Flying Parisian Houses

No, Pixar is not promoting a sequel to Up, set in Paris (sadly), this is the work of French photographer & artist Laurent Chehere. Inspired by the architecture of the 19th and 20th arrondissements of Paris– mainly Belleville and Menilmontant, Laurent isolates his urban houses from the hustle and bustle of the diverse Parisian neighborhoods…

How they did it: The Bubble Girl in Paris, 1963

“Just admit that it’s Photoshop”, people tell fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky when looking at his iconic photograph of model Simone D’Aillencourt landing in a glass bubble on the River Seine in Paris. “But it was 1963,” says Melvin who designed the bubble for the surreal Harper’s Bazaar magazine spring shoot. The plexiglass bubble was hung…

Paris Fashion Week circa 1951

You don’t have to be a fashion die-hard to appreciate the magic of these photographs captured in 1951 at Paris fashion week by my favorite go-to archive, LIFE magazine. The late 1940s and 1950s was a time of intense interest in Paris fashion and haute couture. But even though some of the names of the fashion houses might…