2009-08-29

Marco Barbon




“Asmara Dream” pictures of the Italian colonial architecture of the Eritrean capital Asmara (more info)


2009-08-04

The Ventures' Bob Bogle 1934-2009


Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of the Ventures, passed away on June 14th

The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. The band, formed by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle,  has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide, having sold over 100 million records, and are to date the best-selling instrumental band of all time. In 2008, the Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  (video)

2009-06-11

Jonas Bendiksen






Satellites - Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union

 Bendiksen spent seven years examining the margins of the defunct Soviet Union, traveling to Transdniester, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ferghana Valley, the Jewish Autonomous Region and an area near the Kazakh Steppe, where a junkyard of space debris exists and the cows occassionally die after eating the toxic grass.

2009-06-07

Riccardo Varini





 
to be really subversive photography should not astonish by its colours or strangeness, but invite people to meditate (Roland Barthes)


2009-05-31

Michigan Central Station



When built in 1913, the Michigan Central Station was the world’s largest train station

...... after years of neglect and deterioration,

the Detroit City Council has voted to demolish the historic building

from The motor (less) City  

2009-05-26

John Vachon


Worker at carbon black plant. Sunray, Texas. 1942

thanks Shorpy

2009-04-03

Walter Muma

In the summer of 1978  Walter Muma  undertook a 3-month 11,500-mile (18,660 km)  journey by moped, (a motorcycle with pedals and a low-powered gasoline engine)  from Toronto (Ontario, Canada) to Yukon (Canada), Alaska (USA), and up the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, NWT (Canada), and back to Toronto.



The website contains a complete travelogue of this trip, with over 300 photographs and a description of the trip, plus technical information about the moped and details of the trip.
 

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