Misadventures in Stock Photography
Mar 30, 2011 by M. Scott Brauer No Comments »
From Corbis
We’ve seen women laughing alone with salad before, but Buzzfeed’s collection of 60 Unusable Stock Photos really takes the cake.
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Photographer Dolly Faibyshev documents what is often considered the campier side of American culture, from Palm Springs, Calif., to dog shows, to rodeos, to Las Vegas. See more of her interesting photos here: http://slate.me/11KDi0b
Boots, chaps and cowboy hats… nothin’ else matters.
Corey Arnold is Instagramming for the New Yorker from Naknek, Alaska—the world’s richest sockeye salmon fishery. Over the next 30 days, over 20 million salmon will pass through the area.
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Richard Mosse: The Impossible Image
Mosse: “People are so offended by the color pink. It’s just a feckin’ color. How much more constructed is a pink photograph than a black and white photograph? Robert Capa was a black and white photographer. We don’t see in black and white, but no, no that’s closer to truth with a capital T.”
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