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• landscapes with oil
  For over 10 years, Edward Burtynsky has been photographing the global influence of oil. From the vast industrial landscapes of oil fields, oil sands and refineries, to the
• waiting for a ball
  In 1998, photographer Hans van der Meer published his photo book 'Dutch Fields' ('Hollandse Velden'), a superbly satirical look at amateur football. Its carefully framed i
• bokeh
  Word of the day: ' bokeh ', Japanese for fuzzy/blurry, and borrowed in English for the aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas in photographs and film, most notable when s
• throwing self on heap of hay
  One of the founding fathers of modern cinema, Eadweard Muybridge famously introduced motion into photography by pioneering the technique of stop-action photography. (The p
• creature
  Not normally one for animal photography, the new book ' Creature ' by Andrew Zuckerman struck me as an interesting blend of zoology and art. Hi-res, super-sharp photograph
• control
  Who better to make a film about Joy Division and its troubled lead singer Ian Curtis than photographer Anton Corbijn ? In 1979 the band's music inspired Corbijn to move to
• crime scene amsterdam
  The ' Crime Scene Amsterdam ' photo exhibition at Foam shows real crime scenes and real victims from police archives, taken between 1965 and 1985. Looking at these photogr
• la jetée
  Chris Marker 's famous ciné-roman (film-novel) ' La Jetée ' (1962), only half an hour long and comprised almost entirely of black and white stills, remains one of the best
• chernobyl
  Haunting photo essay on the horrific, tragic effects of Chernobyl , 20 years later. By Magnum photographer Paul Fusco . Via Kottke .
• people's poses
  Strange how powerful some of Rineke Dijkstra 's simple, frontal portrait photographs are. Awkward adolescents on the beach or in the park, young soldiers in uniform, blood
• subbacultures
  An old one, but still great, this photo inventory of subcultures... @ www.exactitudes.com
• abstract high rise
  Check these amazing photos of Hong Kong high rise. Almost Escher, except people live in it... Michael Wolf's Architecture of Density (Suggested by Jens .)

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