Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1887-1918

"Autochromes
Photography’s earliest practitioners dreamed of finding a method for reproducing the world around them in color. Some nineteenth-century photographers experimented with chemical formulations aimed at producing color images by direct exposure, while others applied paints and powders to the surfaces of monochrome prints. Vigorous experimentation led to several early color processes, some of which were even patented, but the methods were often impractical, cumbersome and unreliable.

After decades of wishing for a practical color process, photographers were thrilled when Auguste and Louis Lumière announced the invention of the autochrome process. The Lumière brothers, inventors of the motion picture camera, presented their invention to the French Academy of Sciences in 1904. The process used a screen of tiny potato starch grains dyed orange-red, green and violet. Dusted onto a glass plate, the dyed grains were covered with a layer of sensitive panchromatic silver bromide emulsion. As light entered the camera, it was filtered by the dyed grains before it reached the emulsion. While the exposure time was very long, the plate could be processed easily by a photographer familiar with standard darkroom procedures. The result was a unique, realistic, positive color image on glass that required no further printing.

George Eastman House has significant holdings of autochromes, including over 3900 examples by amateur photographer Charles Zoller of Rochester, New York. The museum also holds autochromes by Edward Steichen among others."

I came across this very interesting project :

The Commons on Flickr
The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.

You're invited to help describe the photographs you discover in The Commons on Flickr, either by adding tags or leaving comments.*

Have a look at these beautiful pictures from the The Library of Congress

"These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944."

Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

1943 Feb.

Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.

"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

1941 Sept.

Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.

"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

1941 Sept.

Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-, photographer.

A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, La.

1940 July

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If you happen to be in New York I strongly reccomend you to go and see Banksys "The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill" located at 89 Seventh Avenue South. The tiny space can hold no more than 20 people at a time, and because it's a storefront, the exhibit is also viewable at night. Don't expect to find any of his more identifiable works inside. Demonstrating his twisted but thought provoking sense of humor, Banksy designed a pet shop that includes fish sticks swimming in a fish tank, a chimpanzee watching chimp porn, a fur coat playing a cat, and hot dog hamsters.

You get to see some fantastic banksy stuff like this:

or this:

Impressions of Uwe Wittwer's recent show at the Kunstzeughaus in Rapperswil-Jona (near Zurich), Switzerland. Photos by Brigitt Lattmann.

Monsoon I

Monsoon I (detail)

Monsoon II & III

Monsoon II

Monsoon III

Front left: «Still Life negative after Heda», 2002, Watercolour, 150 x 180 cm

«Queen» Series after Holbein 1991 - 94

From left to right: Wall Piece after Poussin, 2008, Aquarell, 180 x 150 cm; «Bacchanal after Poussin, negative, diptych», 2008, Aquarell, 180 x 150 cm

Far end: «Portrait negative», 2008, Ink Jet, 180 x 150 cm ; front right: «Portrait», 2008, Ink Jet, 150 x 150 cm

Front: «House negative», 2008, Ink Jet, 149.8 x 199.6 cm; far end: «Interior negative», 2007, Ink Jet, 180 x 150 cm

Have you ever tried to take a picture in a night club? They always turn out crapy. People move to fast, the light is bad etc. And if you show up with a huge camera and some proper flash light people are usually to frightened to get good pictures.

I stumbled on a club photographer called billa recently. He is mainly documenting the Nu Rave scene in England.
I really like his pictures and they give you insight in what seems to be some serious partying.

He has had his photos published in Disorder, i-D, Super Super, Clash, Time Out, XLR8R, Numero Tokyo, Sportswear International and Vogue.

Here is a selection of photos he took at Super Super Tuesday club night, I ? Niyi at Punk, Soho on May 6 2008. Head to Billa's online photostream and check out over 1000 pages of party photos and documentary shots.

www.flickr.com/photos/billa/
www.shitbilla.com

Wir hatten schon darüber gesprochen.... Nun habe ich den Artikel gefunden, in dem beschrieben wird, wie Europa (oder die ganze Welt) mit Solarthermie-Strom versorgt werden könnte: www.spiegel.de "Strom aus der Wüste"

Auch treehugger.com bezieht sich auf diesen Artikel und hat mit regen Kommentaren eine spannende Online-Diskussion angerissen.

Related: «Power station harnesses Sun's rays» by David Shukman from the BBC.
He toured the extraordinary scene of the new solar thermal power plant outside Seville in southern Spain.

A system to power the world in the desert would take up a piece roughly the size of Austria

Mike just posted some excellent photos of soon to be gone brownfields and industrial sites in Greenwich:

«There's a little-used but really interesting walk that runs from the Millennium Dome (or 'The O2' or whatever it's now called) along a riverside path into Greenwich. The walk breezes past acres of empty, deserted land and disused quays that will, no doubt, soon be sprouting ghastly developments galore.»

www.urban75.org

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