January 2010
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Street Cats（The very first work） “Michio Yamauchi...
Street Cats / Michio Yamauchi
He is famous because it takes a picture of “Person”. However, it took a picture of “Cat” most first. It is a photograph collection that brings this together.
What is “Michio Yamauchi”?
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www.mugshots.net
http://www.mugshots.net/
Even celebrities make mistakes, and some of them get caught! (Though of course they are not necessarily guilty).
So here they are… famous police mugshots of celebrities, celebrity mugshots, criminal mugshots, whichever way you prefer. From the NFL to the NBA, Microsoft to movie stars, no one is safe from the Police mugshot. Just take a look at a few of the...
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The Faces.
The Faces
The following slides are from a lot I acquired several years ago. No information other than the date was on any of the slides- Were these photographs merely an orthodontist or dermatologists records or are we looking at the subjects of some experiment of a more sinister nature? Where multiple photos of the same girl exist I’ve grouped them together.Otherwise the slides are in...
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My Bible ! “Keizo Kitajima / Photo Express...
Keizo Kitajima / 北島敬三
Photo Express Okinawa vol,1~vol,4
As there were few galleries for photographic exhibitions in Japan, Kitajima planned to self-publish the photographs he made in 1980 as Photo Express Okinawa, a bi-monthly periodical; he realized merely 4 volumes. Each volume concentrates on a specific time frame during a single month (ie: January 1-15), much like a visual diary....
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Numb… Bruce Davidson “Subway”
Bruce Davidson
Davidson was born to a single mother, who worked in a factory to support her Davidson and another son. At age 10, his mother (as of November 2009, still alive at age 98) built him a dark room in the basement and Davidson began taking photographs, as he was given the freedom to wander the streets of Oak Park alone. Soon after, he approached a local photographer who taught...
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The most famous montage picture in Japan.
“300 million yen robbery” ／ 三億円事件
頭脳警察 ／ Brain Police
It is one of the motifs of the design now.
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Jealousy…! to "Young-phantom killer". “Shinji...
OSAKA
TOKYO
third district gallery He is belonging to "third district gallery" of Tokyo now. Photograph exhibition is done by the pace twice a year. He is 26-year-old young person. However, I feel jealousy in his sharp sensibility like "Phantom killer". ※"Haruto Hoshi" is on the register in this gallery, too.
Start tragedy… “Siege of Leningra”
Siege of Leningra
Although still not finalized series in St. Petersburg walksI want to return to the topic of this city in a different context. Shortly before the New Year came into my hands a book of Pennsylvania American historian David Glantz “The siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944» ( ‘Leningrad. City under Siege. 1941-1944’) in the translation and publication of the...
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“Michio Yamauchi/山内 道雄” Japanese...
Michio Yamauchi
Japanese photographer of LEGEND “Michio Yamauchi”.He is on the road for 30 years or more.
Sokyusha 蒼穹舎
Rat Hole Gallery
“Death camera” (or third eye)
California ArtistsWayne Martin Belger Produced. (via. Karapaia)
Born February 11 1964 in Pasadena California to two very understanding middle class Catholic parents, I remember the days when mass was done in Latin. Magic language, magic practices, and magic altars with their own ritualistic traditions are intriguing at 5 years old. Not knowing Latin, I relied more on visuals to...
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Susumu Fujita/藤田 進 “Roppongi Seoul Embassy”
ON SALE.
1980 black disco in Roppongi taken Susumu Fujita.
“image shop CAMP” was published in Japan, scene of 80’s.
I like “Amon Tobin”.／アモン・トビンが好き。
Amon Tobin
Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin (born 7 February 1972), better known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian electronic musician and DJ. He is best known for his use of sampling. Tobin is also credited with helping to create the emerging “trip hop” genre in the late 1990s. He has released seven major studio albums since 1996 under the London-based Ninja Tune record label...
getz “Sex Tourism” (from Southeast Asia)
http://photopolygon.com/photostories/details/5157#photo_27053
getz
Sex Tourism In Southeast Asia
Tourism is a big part of revenue for many countries in the world today. But just what is it that brings tourist to a specific place? There are many different reasons including buildings, art, beaches, and even prostitution! There is one specific kind of tourism that is causing such an issue in...
Claire Martin “Slab City” and “The Downtown East...
Slab City
The Downtown East Side
http://www.clairemartinphotography.com/
Claire started her career by exploring a degree in social work, but changed her focus to photography when she realized that change can be effected through images. The photograph reveals and illuminates: it educates and inspires action. Her work has garnered many awards including the Deeper Perspective Photographer...
Pawel Jaszczuk “Kinky City” from TOKYO.
http://www.paweljaszczukgallery.com/#120696/Kinky-City
Pawel Jaszczuk 1978 Born in Warsaw, Poland 2004 Graduated from School of Visual Arts, Sydney, Australia 2004 – present - Lives and work in Tokyo, Japan Solo exhibitions 2010 Gallery Julies Julian, Copenhagen - “Pink Sumo” 2009 Gallery Zero, Berlin - “Kinky City”-” Salaryman” 2009 Gallery Obok ZPAF, Warsaw...
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Anton Kuster “JAPANESE Mafia/日本のヤクザ”
Anton Kuster
Anton Kusters is a young Belgian photographer creating fine art photography. Often changing styles, his works depict his boy-like interest in the subject the photographs.
…I’m in the front seat, riding with Soichiro in his car on his way to Shinjuku. “One cuts off one’s finger to make a point”, Soichiro explains while driving. “Usually to show the sincerity of an apology after...
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Polydactyly… “Hound Dog Taylor (blues rock...
Hound Dog Taylor “Taylor’s rock”
Real human polydactyls
Hrithik Roshan, a Bollywood actor born with a supernumerary thumb on his right hand.
Antonio Alfonseca, a Major League Baseball pitcher.
Hampton Hawes, jazz pianist, was born with six fingers on each hand (surgically removed shortly after birth)
Little Tich, an English music hall comedian.
Garfield Sobers, West Indian cricketer,...
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Yasuhiro Nakai/中居 裕恭 “1978 Gay Shinjuku + 2-chome,...
http://www.graficamag.com/memoria/shounai_shinjuku_memoria.html
ON SALE.
30 years ago, Shinjuku 2-chome, every day was like a festival, proud moment for gay people.
Ben Graville “In and Out the Old Bailey”
http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/01/11/day-158-prison-security-vans-have-small-dark-windows/
Ben Graville
The Old Bailey or Central Criminal Court is the countries most important crown court. It hears cases remitted to it from all over England and Wales as well as the Greater London area. Originally established as a session house in 1539 next to Newgate prison and was rebuilt in 1774....
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Yōsuke Yamahata “NAGASAKI the day after it was...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dsuke_Yamahata
Yōsuke Yamahata (山端 庸介, Yamahata Yōsuke , August 6, 1917 – April 18, 1966) was a Japanese photographer best known for extensively photographing Nagasaki the day after it was bombed.
Igor Posner “Notes from Underground”
http://igorposner.net/index.html
It started in 2006, a year when I returned to St. Petersburg for the first time in 14 years. At the time I had no idea what I wanted to get out of this place, photographically anyway. I just knew that I wanted to immerse myself into its cold, gloomy winter and take pictures. Trip after trip as images started to appear I noticed that somehow the pictures started...
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Masatoshi Naitō / 内藤正敏 "Photography" and...
婆バクハツ！・BABA-Explosion！
新宿幻景「キメラ」・Shinjuku-boukei (KIMERA) 1964
即身仏・Nippon-no-Sokushinbutsu (Japanese Buddhist Mummy)
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q=%22Nait%C5%8D%2C+Masatoshi%2C+1938-%22&qt=search_author
Masatoshi Naitō was born in Japan, in 1938. He is Folklorist and photographer.
Weegee's World (Life, Death and the Human...
“My Studio, A Patrol Wagon” (circa 1938)
“Weegee at a Murder” (1942)
http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/
He will take his camera and ride off in search of new evidence that his city, even in her most drunken and disorderly and pathetic moments, is beautiful.
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A Chronology of Crime in the Keystone State.
http://www.squareamerica.com/mugshots/
A slideshow of 20 mugshots of hapless criminals from the town of New Castle, PA. from the 1930s through the 1960s. Expect drunks, larcenists, and even a peeping tom!