Camera: Kiev 88
Film: Rollei Digibase CN 200 Pro

Camera: Kiev 88
Film: Rollei Digibase CN 200 Pro

Camera: Holga CFN 120.
Film: Kodak E100G EKtachrome . (Expired since 10/2008)
Film was cross-processed and scanned with Canoscan 8800F.

Procrastination FTW?

Camera: Holga CFN 120
Film: Fuji Pro 400H

My sources of inspiration <3

How it was done:

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How it turned out:

Absolutely amazing!

Camera: Holga CFN 120
Film: Fuji Pro 400H

After doing some research on the web and looking through several books (which I will list below). I have finally put together yet another collection of pictures from LIFE magazine by photographers who I think have contributed in shaping photojournalism as we know it today.

If you haven’t already seen part one, I suggest you click here first.

Premiere at La Scala, Milan, 1934

“I see pictures all the time,” Eisenstaedt once said. He saw a picture this night, as an audience awaited an opening night performance at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy. Eisenstaedt was looking about and shooting when “suddenly I saw a lovely young society girl sitting next to an empty box. From that box, I took another picture, with the girl in the foreground. For years and years, this has been one of my prize photographs. Without the girl I would not have had a memorable picture.”

Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Children at a Puppet Theater, 1963.

Wide range of facial expressions on children at puppet show – The moment the dragon is slain, Guignol puppet show, Parc de Montsouris, Paris, 1963.

Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1945

Emaciated male prisoners, victims of Nazi genocide, staring through barbed wire fence at their liberators after American forces overran the Buchenwald concentration camp.

The American Way, 1937.

Famous image of African American flood victims lined up to get food & clothing from a Red Cross relief station in front of billboard ironically extolling WORLD’S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING/ THERE’S NO WAY LIKE THE AMERICAN WAY.

American Gothic, 1942

African American cleaning woman Ella Watson standing w. broom & mop in front of American flag, reinterpretation of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” painting by photographer Gordon Parks as part of Depression era survey for Farm Security Administration.

Photographer: Gordon Parks

A portrait of Margaret Bourke-White taking striking pictures of the Chrysler building’s majestic spire, while situated atop its 61st-floor gargoyles. This portrait of the artist as a young daredevil was taken by her assistant.

Perfect Ten Point Diving, 1962

Sorta Synchronized, 1953

A portrait of the championship Canadian aquacade team during demonstration performance in Silver Springs, Fla.

The Lindy Hop, 1943

Professional dancers Willa Mae Ricker & Leon James show off the Lindy Hop which evolved in 1927 after Lindbergh’s flight when improvisational dancers in Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom caused an observer to exclaim “It looks like their doin’ the “Lindy Hop.”

3-D Movie, 1952

3-D Movie Viewers. Formally attired audience sporting 3-D (3D) glasses during opening night screening of movie “Bwana Devil,” the 1st full length, color 3-D (aka “Natural Vision”) motion picture, at Paramount Theater, Hollywood, CA.

Photographer: J. R. Eyerman

Photographer, 1951

Photographer Dennis Stock holding camera to his face so that the lens looks like his right eye & viewfinder his left eye. June 1951

Credits:

Life: The Classic Collection
Photos That Changed the World: The 20th Century
LIFE Image Archive on Google

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February 1878 – 15 May 1935) was a painter, art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde. He was also the founder of the art movement Suprematism.

Suprematism is an art movement founded by Malevich in Russia which focused on geometrical abstraction that evokes emotion and contemplation. Malevich himself describes this revolutionary art movement as “the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.”

Black Cross, 1923

Black Circle, 1923

Black Square, 1923

When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field. The critics and, along with them, the public sighed, “Everything which we loved was lost. We are in a desert…Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!”

-Malevich

Suprematism, 1916-1917

Two-Dimensional Self-Portrait, 1915

Woman Torso

Malevich’s earlier work showed great influence of cubism and futurism.

Bureau and Room, 1913.

An Englishman in Moscow, 1914

Soldier of the First Division, 1914

When Stalinism took hold in the Soviet Union from 1924 on, the Stalinist regime began limiting the freedom of artists and prohibited abstraction and divergence of any artistic expression. This of course led to the confiscation of many of Malevich’s work, and he was banned from creating and exhibiting similar art. Malevich nevertheless retained his main conception. In his self-portrait of 1933 he represented himself in a traditional way — the only way permitted by Stalinist cultural policy — but signed the picture with a tiny black-over-white square.

Self Portrait, 1933

Credits:
http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.abcgallery.com/
http://commons.wikimedia.org

Taking a break from the usual YDDoI posts (at least until I figure out how to put multiple galleries in one post). I present to you a collection of my favorite underrated and perhaps less famous photographs from LIFE’s photo archives. Some of them which I have printed, framed and hanging on my bedroom wall and around the house

JFK and Daughter, 1958

“Sen. John F. Kennedy (L) playing peek-a-boo with his daughter Caroline in her crib.”
Photographer: Ed Clark

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1967

Ingrid Bergman, 1949

Ballerinas, 1936

Jack and Bobby, 1960

The Duke and The Duchess of Windsor, 1956

Dali Atomicus, 1948

“In 1941 Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dali Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, a bucket of thrown water, and Salvador Dalí in mid air. The title of the photograph is a reference to Dalí’s work Leda Atomica which can be seen in the right of the photograph behind the two cats. Halsman reported that it took 28 attempts to be satisfied with the result.“
Photographer: Philippe Halsman

The Fab Four, 1964

Jackson Pollock, 1949

“Painter Jackson Pollock working in his studio, cigarette in mouth, dropping paint onto canvas.”

Photographer: Martha Holmes

The Mahatma, 1946

The Winter of Ernest Hemingway, 1958-59

Pablo Picasso, 1949

How many toy cameras do you own? and what’s your favorite?

Camera: Holga CFN 120
Film: Fujo Pro 400H
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