Every year we survey the staggeringly huge wedding photography industry to find the 10 pros working at the very top of their game. If you’re looking for the best of the best to shoot your nuptials, look no further.
Our look at some of 2013’s most anticipated major photo shows continues, with Bill Brandt at MoMA.
Photo: Belgravia, London, 1951, © Bill Brandt
Without further ado, it’s our list of the best photo books of 2012. Prime your holiday shopping lists.
Invited into Julian Assange’s home in London, two Swedish photographers didn’t return with the images you might expect. A look at Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt’s new book Wikiland. Photo: © KK + TF
In conceptual photographer Eva Stenram’s hands, vintage pin-up girls become extremely shy. Image: © Eva Stenram
Above: An inadvertent frame taken by Neil Armstrong with his modified Hasselblad 500 EL. One of 122 70mm color frames made on the lunar surface during the first moonwalk.
Today on the site: We remember Neil Armstrong the photographer, via his rarely seen throwaway frames from the moon.
Above: The Great Northern hotel from Twin Peaks, as it stands today.
Marcel Castenmiller traveled to the Pacific Northwest to find locations used in David Lynch’s cult classic TV show “Twin Peaks” and document them as they stand today. Apparently, a room at The Great Northern is now $350. Reasonably priced indeed!
“When I finish there I’ll be checking into a motel. I’m sure the sheriff will be able to recommend a clean place, reasonably priced. That’s what I need, a clean place, reasonably priced.”
Check out more photos from the series, “I ♥Twin Peaks.” Image: © Marcel Castenmiller
shadows & light (by motelrodeo)
Our look at the masters of Olympic photography continues: At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Greg Louganis memorably hit his head on the board, while Rich Clarkson’s motor drive captured it all from start to finish. Image: © Rich Clarkson/Rich Clarkson and Associates
We previewed three water-themed photo shows up this summer, featuring some great vintage beach and surf photography. Here: the Smyrna Surf Club, circa 1965, part of Surfing Florida: A Photographic History at the Pensacola Museum of Art.
We also round up a photo survey of beach photography on view at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., and a water-themed Ansel Adams retrospective at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.
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