

images that haunt us


Edward Weston :: German dancer and choreographer
Harald Kreutzberg, 1930′s / via
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Edward Weston :: Bedpan, 1930 / more [+] by this photographer
“Weston adopted the “form follows function” dictum, originally coined by the modern American architect Louis Sullivan as his own credo in the mid-1920′s and spent the remainder of his career extracting the essential structure of objects before his camera. Like other modernist photographers such as Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, his work proved that the formal character of the photograph could override the content, but, unlike them, he preferred to use recognizable, everyday objects from the natural and industrial world to assert his claim.”/ src: Metropolitan Museum
Tree aesthetic surgery, ca. 1890
Founded in 1880 in Kent, Ohio, by John Davey, Davey Tree Care Co. was a company that offered to the wealthy landowners in the area to look after their rare tree specimens.These photographs were taken in the 1890’s to show the techniques used to model the shape of a tree by splitting it and forcing each branch into a predefined position. / source: La Boite Verte and their photo mysteries
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Andreas Feininger :: A long exposure view of a Sikorsky S-51 helicopter on the ground at Anacostia Naval Air Station in Washington DC, 1949
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Tree aesthetic surgery, ca. 1890
Founded in 1880 in Kent, Ohio, by John Davey, Davey Tree Care Co. was a company that offered to the wealthy landowners in the area to look after their rare tree specimens.These photographs were taken in the 1890’s to show the techniques used to model the shape of a tree by splitting it and forcing each branch into a predefined position. / via lasmicrofisuras and a site I love: La Boite Verte and their photo mysteries
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