Tag: black and white
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70 Year Old Seamlessly Integrates His Body with the Natural World
Long before selfies and photoshop, photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen was capturing self-portraits of his nude body in natural surroundings. For the better part of past five decades, the now 70 year old artist has blurring the lines between where the world ends and his body begins. Arno does this by relying on a simple 9-second shutter release that allows…
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Photographer Takes Amazing Portraits Of People Living on the Streets
We first happened across the stunning photography of Lee Jeffries when he tagged some of his photos to #artFido on Instagram. We were immiadetly in awe. Lee photographs homeless people to show the humanity that they possess. According to Jeffries: “When you see a Lee Jeffries image, it’s not a document of the life of a homeless…
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Black and White Photography of Male Ballet Dancers
The beauty and grace of a ballet dancer is a sight to behold. But what about twenty amazingly flexible, sculptured, male ballet dancers? That was the task faced by photographer Matthew Brookes in his recent Les Danseurs project. Matthew worked with twenty male ballerinas from the Paris Opera Ballet, bringing the dancers to a minimalistic setting that allowed the men…
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Artist Adds Strange Details to Old Black and White Photos
Artist Colin Batty puts an amusingly strange spin on photographs of the past. Taking cabinet cards from the early 1900s, he uses acrylic paint and crafts entirely new and surprising scenes directly on the image. His additions are often hilarious but also creepy, and he does a fantastic job of seamlessly matching the colors and…
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Polish Artist Takes Spectacular Summertime Photos of her Children
Izabela Urbaniak is a photographer and mother of two playful boys from Lodz, Poland. Since 2012, she’s been creating a photo series called “Summertime,” which depicts holidays in the countryside (in the tiny village of Lugowiska), carefree childhood, and the joy and happiness of everyday life. These pictures represent summer without computers and TVs – only…