In The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (public library), Denise Kiernan tells the story of the Oak Ridge center of the Manhattan Project, a town of 70,000 workers — primarily women — who lived in a camp-like environment of propaganda, barbed wire, checkpoints, code [...]
New York has been arguably one of the most photogenic destinations on earth ever since photography allowed it to be. Which is why when we saw NYC Past we got all excited in the brain space. This Tumblr has, at last count, 49 pages of large format photography from the Big Apple’s past and present. [...]
To mark the Underground’s 150th birthday, an exhibition at the London Transport Museum presents150 of the most significant posters created for the tube. Within this history of London Underground posters lies the history of the poster itself. From the purely typographic examples of the late 19th century, through the first illustrated tube poster in 1908, [...]
One of our favourite new illustrative projects. The Windows of New York is a weekly illustration project by Jose Guizar, an ode to architecture and personal challenge to never stop ‘looking’. Beautiful. Click the pic to see more.
What if: the Milky Way were visible in NYC? It would look something like this. Taken from Darkened Skies by Thierry Cohen; he photographed various cities (NYC, Paris and Tokyo) and matched them up with starry skies from more remote places like Montana, Nevada, and the Sahara. New Yorkers can see Cohen’s work at the [...]
Michael Eastman is renowned for his sublime photographs of urban architecture, using a wide-angle lens and lengthy exposures to capture the effects of light on the surface of a Frank Gehry building or in a Shanghai atrium, like the photo above. Eastman started out as a self-taught photographer in St. Louis and gradually developed his [...]
This beautiful time lapse by British photographer Rob Whitworth takes you through the crazy traffic and goings-on of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The video titled “Traffic in Frenetic HCMC” was created by capturing 10,000 RAW images of the city’s relentless energy and pace of change. “Everyone who has visited Ho Chi Minh City, [...]
Charles Dickens was writing about revolutionary Paris when he penned the immortal opening lines “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” but the celebrated Londoner could easily have been talking about the 12 months in his home town that have been captured by American Brian Leli. The period from August [...]
For all our international viewers, Brits are big fans of the booze. So much so that city centres go from the genteel versions of Britain the tourist board flogs abroad to looking more like a bad night in Baghdad. Photographer Maciej Dakowicz spent five years documenting the Saturday night revellers as they spill onto the [...]
While visiting New York City by himself, Serbia-based art director Marko Savic came up with an interesting way of creating “tourist” photos with himself in the frame. Instead of setting the timer on his camera, asking passers-by for help, or photographing his reflection, he decided to shoot self-portraits by illuminating his face and photographing it [...]
