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© Francois Garnotel, Christmas Evening, 2002
This is a mischievous shot by Francois Garnotel of two older people viewed through the funny mirror of a couple of wine glasses. The way the glasses distort the two people is hallucinogenic. Good eye, Francois. Cheers!
Francois Garnotel Photo Website

Leonard Nimoy may not seem of this world for those of you who have troubling separating the man from the Vulcan, but trust us, he’s of this earth. We know because we’ve had a chance to see his Full Body Project, a series of photographs that document big beautiful women in the buff.
Shooting digital [...]

© Zed Stri
Some days fatigue sets in and despite your best efforts, it’s a losing battle. There’s nothing you can do accept surrender your body to your mind and call it an afternoon. Photographer Zed Stri caught the moment to remind us of our mortality.

© Leonard Freed
Photographer Leonard Freed (1929-2006) snapped some amazing pictures in his lifetime. This one is called “Young Man Talking to Two Elderly Women, 1965.” At first your eye is drawn to the black youth chatting up the two elderly women, but then you begin to wonder, what are they talking about.
Suddenly your eye [...]

© Craig Mod
Photographer Craig Mod lives in Japan. His grandmother suffers from Parkinson’s Disease so he decided to “document the effects this situation has had on her relationship with her daughter, her husband and herself.” One of the photos in the series depicts her as “oriental granny,” an effect achieved by taking her two index [...]

Tlingit woman named Go-Ken-Sha-Cla, Wrangell, Alaska, ca. 1900
There’s nothing more fun than finding a rare photograph at a tag sale these days and then racing home to plug any information written on the photograph into Google to discover who snapped it. While visiting Alex Novak’s I Photo Central site, I came across this image with [...]

Here’s what happens when you get old and die: your relatives put you up for sale on Ebay, hoping to cash in on the fact that those ancient family photos are now worth money to a photography collector. The stranger the image, usually, the higher the price. So how much are you willing to pay [...]

© Steve Pyke
The Flowers Gallery is currently exhibiting photographs by Steve Pyke. The show is called “Faces of Our Time.” What a great set of images! A visit to this show should cure you of your obsession with plastic surgery. Time-worn faces never looked so compelling and mesmerizing!
Faces of Our Time
Photographer Steve Pyke
Steve Pyke’s Faces [...]

© Andreas Gursky
Oh, the irony. The Andreas Gursky photograph above just sold at auction for $3.35 million. The kicker is that it’s the interior of a 99-cent Only store.
Ponder that fact for a moment: a photographer wandered into a 99-Cent Only store, shot the interior of the store, blew it up to 6′ 9 [...]

© pyrotechnician
A great image of an old man from Nevsehir, Turkey shot by a photojournalist. Now I ask you: is that a character who needs Botox or plastic surgery!

© Brigitte Lustenberger
Photographer Brigitte Lustenberger recently won the Maine Photographic Workshops Golden Light Awards’ contest in the Nudes and Human Forms category. She studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Rather interesting portraits of people nude from the waist up against a stark white background, including this older woman.
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© Nicholas Nixon
Study these two photographs carefully. Notice any similarities between the women in both photographs? You should: they’re sisters. The Brown Sisters. Photographer Nicholas Nixon has been taking their collective picture for the past 25 years. Nothing like seeing the hand of time redraw the faces of a couple of beauties.
According the National Gallery [...]

A stunning photograph made by Sébah & Joaillier, photographers of the Sultan that shows a Turkish farmer enjoying a cup of tea and shishah.
Spotted on Ookami Dou

This is a vintage postcard from 1910 or so. There’s something about these four blokes out in the woods all dressed up in hats and ties that begs for an adventure story. Maybe they just robbed a bank. Maybe they just got drunk at the saloon. Or Maybe they’re college pranksters with a great sense [...]

© William Klein
Sotheby’s is auctioning off a group of photos on March 7, including this image by photographer William Klein shot in 1959. It’s entitled “Bikini, Moscow.” Great use of foreground, background, and super background. If you have some spare cash, pick up a paddle and bring this baby home instead of wasting your money [...]

EE Cummings‘ wife, Marion Morehouse is up for sale on Ebay…a photograph of her by Edward Steichen from 1925. Check out the sleeves on that outfit. Pretty stylish!
anyone lived in a pretty how town
by E. E. Cummings
Click here to buy a wife

© Annie Leibovitz & Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair hired photographer Annie Leibovitz to shoot an ambitious film noir series featuring a long list of famous actors and actresses like Judi Dench and Helen Mirren. I’m not a big fan of Ms. Leibovitz. Most of her photographs are emotionally disconnected from their subjects; her compositions lack a [...]

© Margabr
Excellent shot on Flickr that captures the portrait of a man whose face tells the story of the life he’s lived.

© Christopher Peterson
Fashion Week at Bryant Park offered an opportunity to view some of New York’s socialites as they entered the tents for designer shows. Here’s one…

Flickr, aside from allowing you to post your own photos, also provides lots of networking possibilities. If you haven’t explored the “Groups” section of Flickr, then you’re missing out on the collective wisdom of like-minded voyeurs. You can join groups at the click of a button and then indulge your visual addiction until your eye [...]