icphoto:

Photo Magic: an outtake from “Dalí Atomicus” by Philippe Halsman—it took 28 attempts and 6+ hours to capture the famous portrait of Salvador Dalí. #Caturday 

timelightbox:

PHOTO: PHILIPPE HALSMAN ARCHIVE—MAGNUM PHOTOS

Discover the Genius of Philippe Halsman’s Surrealist Portraits

A retrospective opens in Paris.

artruby:

Irving Penn, Girl In Bed (Jean Patchett), New York, (1949).

moma:

August Sander, born today in 1876, devoted decades of his career to his portrait series People of the 20th Century, which was never published during his lifetime. A posthumous 1969 MoMA exhibition led to a great breakthrough in his public reputation.

[August Sander. Sisters. 1927]

nprbooks:

It’s gotten a lot harder for photographers to set themselves apart from hobbyists, and for their imagery to surface (let alone stand out) in the deluge. That’s what drew me to Robert Shore’s Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, a photo book that confronts the art form’s ever-changing status and makes a point to discern between photographer and artist.

The book is a compilation — or, rather, a curation — of the works of over 50 artists who use photography as a medium in the least traditional sense. Many of them are not so much interested in taking photographs as they are in creating imagery.

The various processes used by these artists are split into five chapters: “Something Borrowed, Something New,” “Layers of Reality,” “All the World Is Staged,” “Hand and Eye” and “Post-Photojournalism.” Their practices range from image borrowing and editing techniques (whether digital or physical), to the use of technology outside of photography (such as Google Street View), to staged moments and the application of old processes to new concepts. On the whole, it’s a welcome collection of new works that challenge the definition of photography and image-making for both artists and photographers. 

-Intern Bita

All images courtesy of Laurence King Publishing. From top: book cover; “Rebel Rebel” by Richard Mosse; “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Christy Lee Rogers; “Virtue and Vice” by Chloe Sells; “Icy Prospects 17” by Jorma Puranen; “Iko Iko” and “Bongo” by Cristina De Middel from her series “The Afronauts”

newsweek:

United States copyright regulators are agreeing with Wikipedia’s conclusion that a monkey’s selfie cannot be copyrighted by a nature photographer whose camera was swiped by the ape in the jungle. The animal’s selfie went viral. The US Copyright Office, in a 1,222-page report discussing federal copyright law, said that a “photograph taken by a monkey” is unprotected intellectual property.

Monkey’s selfie cannot be copyrighted, US regulators say | Ars Technica

(via newsweekscience)

spaceplasma:

Planets of Our Solar System

Our solar system officially has eight planets and one star: the Sun. The discovery of an object larger than Pluto in 2005 rekindled the debate over whether such objects, belonging to the Kuiper Belt – a collection of icy bodies located beyond Neptune – should be called planets. Pluto and other large members of the Kuiper Belt are now considered “dwarf planets.”

Planet facts: space-facts.com