
Jane Fonda, 1967 by Dennis Hopper. This whole post is really, really great: Dennis Hopper, 1936 – 2010 « Chasing Light. (via funkaoshi again)

Jane Fonda, 1967 by Dennis Hopper. This whole post is really, really great: Dennis Hopper, 1936 – 2010 « Chasing Light. (via funkaoshi again)

Alex Webb, people playing volleyball using the border fence between Arizona and Mexico as the net, 1979
via claytoncubitt

Bill Stramer and son Todd. Hazelton, North Dakota, 1971. Photo from the David Plowden Archive in the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Untitled photo by Miroslav Tichý, who’s got an exhibition at the International Center of Photography going on for a couple more weeks. More in the New York Times and Financial Times. Check out that homemade camera. (via this month’s Harper’s)

Burrard-Lucas Blog » The Adventures of BeetleCam. A DSLR perched on a remote control buggy. This is one of those ideas that seems so obvious in hindsight. Very cool.
News to me: “Nikon, Olympus and Sony sell cameras that offer ‘cuisine’ or ‘food’ settings, which adjust to enhance colors and textures on close-ups.”
And there’s this: “Lefebvre happily cooked a private dinner for 18 food bloggers. His wife set up a portable light box in a corner of the dining room. Even before the bread plates hit the table, the crowd went nuts. As each new dish arrived, the bloggers rushed over to the light box to get the shot, then returned to their seats.”
Dinner is the theater as food paparazzi converge – latimes.com
“One guy arrived with the wrong lens or something on his camera and left his wife sitting at the table for an hour while he went home to get it.”
First Camera, Then Fork: People Who Photograph Food and Display the Pictures Online – NYTimes.com

SYDNEY, Australia—An office worker on Pitt Street Mall reads a book during lunch hour, 1999.

Untitled by James Dodd
This frame looks like the opening shot of a movie I want to watch.
Amen.

Beach House soundchecking at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee
I see them live in ATL in 24 days. Can’t wait.

from Captured by the Norwegians, a book of photographs by Robert Robinson, published in 1958. The whole thing is online! Check it.
gah why am I such a Norway-phile …

Sarah Bernhardt by Nadar.

Municipal Market by Boyd Lewis, circa 1970. We know it today as the Sweet Auburn Curb Market on Edgewood Avenue. (via)

Zane Grey holds a koala during a visit to Australia. I just started reading Riders of the Purple Sage.

Chan Marshall Revisited « A Continuous Lean. God bless America.

HWY 66, New Mexico, 2007, 5 ft x 5 ft, archival digital print by Chung Fanky Chak. I stumbled on his work at Eyedrum this weekend. I also like the five Japan prints in this project.