Tag: Actual Pictures

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a post up looking at the work of Jamie McGregor Smith who spend time in Athens, Greece, looking at the remains of the 2004 Olympic venues. “Remains” is the proper word – many of the sites, custom built for the games just eight years ago, are sitting unused and rotting away. Study the...

Horst Faas, as you know, passed away earlier this month. NPR’s The Picture Show has a great set of his images up, worth studying – the compositions and use of light from the war scenes he witnessed are just stunning.

The Big Picture blog has a great story up by Diana Markosian looking at young women in Chechnya – it is an awesome set of images. The subtlety and composition of the 13th image is just gorgeous. And there’s a little hidden humor in frame 31, too.

The Museum of the City of New York has a collection of images up shot by legendary Hollywood film maker Stanley Kubrick, all shot on subways around the city in the 1960s. (Thanks to Andrew DeVigal for the link.)

If you’re Virginia bound this week for the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course, try and book a little time before or after. National Geographic has an exhibit up at their Washington, D.C., headquarters of unpublished image from the 2011 magazine stories. (It would be wicked cool if someone at NG would open this up late for those of...