Raw footage from the original music video shoot of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark." Somethings are better left unknown and unseen. Watch at your own risk.
Yuen-Fu Monastery, Formosa, 1870, John Thomson One of the great joys of the past few years has been the movement by museums, libraries and archives to digitize and make accessible hundreds of thousands of photographs in their collections. It amazes me how little The Commons is discussed in the endless debates about the pros and cons of digitization. Never before have so many images by masters and
The great American director, Sidney Lumet, has passed. A master of social realism, Mr. Lumet's filmography includes some of the great titles in the history of cinema.
The new video from Fader favorite Spoek Mathambo is a cover of Joy Division's "She's Lost Control." If the video feels hauntingly familiar perhaps it's because Spoek collaborated with South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, to pull it off.
UPDATE: And still yet another 'match'. Commenter, BabyCakes, points me to the image below made by Melvin Sokolsky in 1960.
A portrait of Salma Hayek by Cass Bird appears on the cover of the 2011 Women's Spring Issue of the New York Times T Magazine. When I saw the image, I immediately thought of Josephine Meckseper's photograph Pyromaniac 2 and I tweeted that the T Magazine cover was clearly a "
I first wrote about Vivian Maier in 2009 and since that time she has been discovered and canonized by street photographers around the globe. With a new book of her work slated for release this fall, a documentary about her discovery and retrospective at the Chicago Cultural Center it looks like she is finally getting the mainstream attention she deserves.