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Found 45 posts tagged ‘photography’

Yearbook Weirdness – April 30, 2019

"The mental image in the viewer's mind is more important than the photograph itself." --Minor White. From Duke's 1973 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#photography #vintage yearbook #yearbook

Restoring the Lost Sense – April 24, 2019

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What the photographer sees and what the camera captures. From The Judge, 1922.

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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #photography #puget sound #old faithful

Restoring the Lost Sense – January 31, 2019

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"Don't smile so much, what'syourname. It's far too wide for my lens." From Le Rire, 1913.

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#vintage illustration #photography #camera #illustration #don't smile

Images Moving Through Time – November 17, 2018

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This photo may be used to facilitate astral travel into a world of blue. From Southwestern University's yearbook of 1965.

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#vintage illustration #photography #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #photograph #vintage photography #blue world

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 3, 2018

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From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.

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#vintage illustration #serpent #photography #rhino #hunter #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 13, 2018

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From Le Rire, 1898.

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#vintage illustration #vintage camera #photography #camera #say cheese #1890s #photograph #illustration #vintage photography #mona lisa #leonardo da vinci

Old News – March 3, 2018

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"Cameras are much too well behaved." From Popular Mechanics, 1933.

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#photography #weird headline #vintage headline #cameras #well behaved #headline

Precursors – November 14, 2017

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Here's a precursor to the "photobomb" phenomenon, in which a third party unexpectedly steps in and ruins a photo. From Judge's Library, 1903.

Previously, we spotted a photobomber in an engraving from 1869, here.

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#vintage illustration #photography #photobomb #smile #say cheese #photofraphy

Images Moving Through Time – September 15, 2017

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Here's one way to take photos that don't stink. From Mocca, 1937.

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#vintage camera #photography #vintage photo #camera #gas mask

The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine – May 9, 2017

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Here is proof that photographs can cast spells and welcome spirits. From Ghost Image by Hervé Guibert, 2014. We are reminded of our own project about photographs that conjure ghosts: The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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#vintage illustration #photography #ghosts #spirit photography #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 20, 2017

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You've heard of real photograhers taking photos of ghosts, but here's a real model "posing in his best clothes for imaginary photographs." From Harper's magazine, 1917.

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#vintage illustration #photography #fashion #vintage fashion #posing #imaginary friend #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 13, 2017

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Here's a photographer from an ad in Dansk Ornithologisk Forenings Tidsskrift, 1907.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #photography #top hat #camera #cape #photographer #illustration #ad

Images Moving Through Time – September 21, 2016

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"The newest thing in freak photgography: sitters posing for their portraits in sphinxes and a mummy-case, in Egypt. Our illustration shows visitors to Egypt being photographed in model sphinxes and a mummy-case, in a desire to possess curious—if somewhat gruesome souvenirs of their wanderings by the Nile. The mummy-case and the sphinxes are of cardboard, and, as may be seen, a hole is left for the face of the sitter." From The Sketch, 1908.

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#mummy #vintage illustration #ancient egypt #photography #sphinx #illustration

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – September 17, 2016

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"Some declare that the photographer is trying to imitate the painter, and the result is something between a photograph and a painting — a spurious art, neither photography nor painting. ... This means that everything that tends to make photography 'pictorial' is effected by painters' methods." —Dr. W. Warstat, "Photography and Painting," Photo-Era Magazine, 1916

Our illustration is a Portrait of King Olav V in the studio of painter Agnes Hiorth.

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#vintage illustration #photography #painting #king olav v #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – August 29, 2016

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"Look at the 'boidy.'" From the Arthur O'Connor scrapbook, 1949, courtesy of the NDSU Archives.

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#vintage illustration #photography #ski lift #nature photography #illustration #skiing

Restoring the Lost Sense – July 14, 2016

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"Look pleasant please." From Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt by Art Young, 1901.

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#vintage illustration #photography #hell #say cheese #smile for the camera #1900s #illustration

This May Surprise You – December 21, 2015

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Here's a positive that turned into a negative (we've had that happen, too!) from St. Nicholas magazine, 1910. The explanation posited by the magazine's Eastman Kodak representative is that the film must have been exposed to a strong light immediately after development and previous to rinising the developer from the surface and fixing.

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