The original Moulin Rouge

Photographed by Albert Kahn 1914 - the year before it burnt down. Discovered this picture on a favourite blog of mine - Vintage Photography.

Olden Days Tube

An incredible collection of old tube pictures by photographer Bob Mazzer. Born and bred Bob has an affection for tube life which comes across in these images. In some ways nothing has changed - in others - so much. Fascinating. See more pictures and info on Spitalfields Life blog here.

Alfred Hitchcock and Jeanloup Sieff

An amazing picture shot for (I think) Harper's Bazaar in the 60's. The photographer, Jeanloup Sieff was French and shot mostly black and white images of beautiful women, often nude. He did a lot of fashion photography although was quoted as saying that the clothes were "mostly hideous" with his main focus being the models instead. In this instance, Hitchcock was encouraged to run around the studio with the model and in doing so created this rather humorous image.

I discovered the image through this blog which I have mentioned before on here.

Another gif!

A great one, from this blog here.

A picture is worth a thousand words

David Goldblatt is a South African photographer, who devoted his life to documenting his country during and after the apartheid. In an interview here, he tells us why he chose to stay in South Africa when the apartheid began. Unfortunately I missed the recent exhibition at the Barbican.

A simple gif

I found on this blog. Lovely.

Werner Bischof - Photographer

Werner Bischof was a Swiss photographer who worked as a photojournalist in the 40's and 50's for many of the big international magazines of his time. Including Picture Post, Time and The Observer.

Despite his job, he hated the 'sensationalism' of the industry and instead "devoted much of his working life to looking for order and tranquility in traditional culture, something that did not endear him to picture editors looking for hot topical material."

Bischof considered himself an artist more than a photojournalist. He traveled the world taking pictures of postwar societies including Eastern and Northern Europe, Japan, Asia, India, the US and more. He died on the job whilst filming in the Andes in May 1954 in a tragic road accident, killing him and two others.

Read more and see a brilliant gallery of his work here.

More Backyard Bill

I love this family picture, including the dog looking in the mirror! Adam and Lily his daughter live in London (i think?) and that's about all I know. I think Adam is a model, and obviously quite eccentric and interesting judging by the house and his style. Have a look at the other family pictures here.

Floating houses

Perhaps inspired by the Pixar film, Up. Photographs by French photographer Laurent Chehere.

The Inspiring Art of Collecting

I really like the way these collections of objects have been shot for Cos Magazine, shot by photographed by Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes. I quite fancy starting a collection of my own. Any suggestions?! I have already done bottles (mostly alcopops - remember them!) and Smash Hits of the 90's...!

Outfit posts

I like to think I'm OK with a camera, however, I have never bothered with outfit posts. Partly because a lot of clothes I wear day to day aren't worthy of a post and partly because I don't really like/want to have my picture taken. When I do, they often end up like this, or worse. I bet pro-fashion bloggers don't fall over in their heels as often as I do either.

To see how it's done properly have a look at hugely successful Rumi, below from Fashion Toast.

Inifinity mirrors again!

This time in Berlin in the hallway of our art nouveux style apartments. (Steve pulling a strange face as usual)

Relates to this post here. More to follow no doubt!

Spots all over my face!

Extending the spots to photographs.

Paintaway by Michael Chase

Made in his kitchen sink with acrylic paint, photos taken on his iphone and then manipulated in photoshop. Check out more here on his Behance Portfolio.

What a face!

This is the face of Mexican actress Delores Del Rio (1925–1978) whom I discovered on one of my favourite sites; Retro Vintage Photography. She was considered one of the most beautiful actresses of her time and was the first Latin American movie star to have international success. She started off in silent films and went on to the 'talkies' in the 30's. Yes that is what the first sound films were know as.

Oliver Pauk - Heat Recovery

Oliver created these photographs in order to help promote waste heat recovery, which is the process of harnessing thermal energy and re-using it. He photographed areas of Toronto, and altered them in order to high light the vast abundance of these systems, where the leaking energy could be used (read more here.)

Not only that but it makes for some pretty cool pictures.

Instagram - Ibiza

So I made it back from another Hen do in one piece.

I really liked Ibiza, it seemed like there was something for everyone and that you could ignore the party side of it really easily (if you wanted to) Club wise, we went to Space and Pacha. Pacha I wouldn't recommend unless you are around 10 years younger than me. Although having dry ice sprayed at you at 100 miles an hour is quite an experience. It causes Maggie Thatcher style hair dos, false eye lashes to fly off, and no doubt a lot of unwanted groping!

Dreamy photography

by 15 year old (!) Amber Ortolano, more on her site.

Petros Chrisostomou photographs

Petros Chrisostomou photographs everyday objects, which he places into beautiful handmade architectural models. I particularly love the eggs in the yellow kitchen, complete with carrier bag hanging from the cupboard door.

More dreaming.....

How lovely is this Instagram picture by Lyndsey Goddard?  She specialises in documentary style wedding photography. Check her site here.