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More photos by Elkie can be found here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xenmate/galleries/72157623258942237/#photo_3904871491

Google have got millions of photos from Life magazine’s archive hosted over here. They range from the 1750′s to the present day.

New Project. This is a work in progress of a response to this term’s brief surrounding Digital Culture and it’s many connotations. Specifically, I am exploring environments in which the virtual overlaps with the physical to create new immersive realities. So far my approach has been that of design and functionality, looking at how a space has been constructed to serve a function. I managed to gain access to certain venues quicker than I had imaged, and the above photo is an experimental example of one of them. I like the potential for it to work as a series, but it’s still early days and I might, depending on where this takes me, try and push for an installation of sorts.

More to come.

I’ve been in an academic, photographic institution for the past two and a half years, and the names of most of those I first learned about and was inspired by are hardly ever mentioned anymore. As the course progresses, our focus shifts ever more towards the more “contemporary/conceptual” side of the medium, leaving many of the legendary image makers in its trail. The sole purpose of this blog is really for me to share things that interest me with anybody – strangers or people I know – who stumble across it. A lot of the work of the photographers that I too often simply glance at nowadays, as they have grown to be so familiar, may not be so recognisable for others. As a result, I’ve decided that I shall now attempt to make more references to their work on here in the hopes that those who have not yet met them may finally become acquainted.

The above image is by Diane Arbus, a legendary portrait photographer who pointed her lens at the weird, wonderful and outright strange elements of society.

Here is a great selection of her work.

Just came across Jill Freedman. Never heard of her before, but I’m really impressed with some of her stuff. The New York Times has compared her work to the likes of Weegee and Diane Arbus, and she certainly shares the same sense of proximity found in a lot of their images. It was actually the above photo alone that made me decide she was at least worth a mention. There’s a boat load of Freedman’s work over at HigherPictures, which is where I initially came across her.

Not only is that dog mounting the other, but that guy’s also butt naked.

One wonders what the context of the walk was.

There’s actually quite a few other interesting photographers listed on HigherPictures, such as Barabara Crane, and her Private Views project:

Might as well check most of them out, as they’re all pretty awesome.