Photography

September 23, 2017

Photographer Gives Intimate Look Inside Bedrooms Across America

After enjoying a successful commercial photography career and raising a family, photographer Barbara Peacock is embarking on an incredible journey into the bedrooms of average Americans. With American Bedroom, she is taking an intimate—and anthropological—look at the most personal of spaces, asking friends, family, and strangers to open themselves up to her candid photographs.

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September 12, 2017

Mathew Brady, the Story of the Man Who Photographed the Civil War

The Battle of Antietam and Mathew Brady's Legacy Brady's big break came in 1862, when he opened an exhibition titled The Dead of Antietam. These graphic images, which showed bodies strewn across the battle field at Antietam were a shock to the American public. Previously, images of war had been limited to artistic renderings. Instead, Brady's photographs showed the graphic reality of the American Civil War. The New York Times stated in an October 1862 article, “Mr.

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September 7, 2017

Photographer Empowers Sick and Disabled Children by Transforming Them into Superheroes

Digital artist and professional photographer Josh Rossi has a knack for making kids' wildest dreams come true. In the past, he used his skills to magically turn his young daughter into Wonder Woman and Beauty and the Beast‘s Belle. Now, inspired by these past projects and hoping to delight a new group of children, Rossi has undertaken a new “super passion project”: transforming hospitalized children into superheroes.

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September 6, 2017

Gustav Klimt’s Famous Paintings Get Recreated with Live Models

Using live models, elaborate props, and lots of gold, Austrian photographer Inge Prader paid homage to her compatriot, Gustav Klimt, with incredible photographic recreations of his famous paintings. The marvelous tableaus incorporate all the rich Art Nouveau symbolism we come to expect with Klimt, but the addition of model makes the work fresh. Some of Klimt's most iconic work, like Death and Life and the epic, 112-foot-long Beethoven Frieze have been recreated in all their sumptuous detail.

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