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How many photos have ever been taken? | 1000memories : Thanks to Shawn Blanc for the link to these incredible statistics.

Disassembly: Product Photography for Industrial Designers - Core77

Polaroid Archives Provide Snapshot of History | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:

“For anyone interested in science, technology, art or consumer culture, this is an unprecedented opportunity to look at a series of products and watch their design unfold from every aspect,” says Deborah Douglas, curator of the collection at the MIT Museum. Polaroid is unusual among American companies in that it has extensively documented its products and maintained archives of its work, says Douglas. “This is one of the top five company collections out there, along with IBM, Bell Labs, DuPont and Boeing,” she says.

I’d love to see these archives someday.

On the literary horizon is an extraordinary book entitled “Waits/Corbijn – Photographs 1977-2010” featuring an array of beautiful artistic images of Tom Waits taken by the renowned photographer Anton Corbijn. Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn are a perfect artist – artist match. Their 30-year collaboration now yields this book of portraits by Corbijn plus more than 50 pages filled up with images/writing by Waits himself.

- Waits/Corbijn – Photographs 1977-2010

Recently I walked by the Ala Moana Mac cosmetic store and noticed a crowd of Japanese tourists gawking and snapping pics. Amazingly, a model in full body paint was posing against a set. She was a darn good simulation of a late 19th century oil painting.

Makeup Girl • Ala Moana Shopping Center - “Ceci n’est pas un tableau.” This is not a painting—it’s a photograph. Absolutely amazing.

Via Kottke.

Update 3/15/10: Kottke found another artist who does the same thing!

Incredible!

Found Functions - Exposes the beauty of mathematics through the beauty of nature. Love this and all the rest of her work.

Via Kottke, who got it from snarkmarket.

We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze: Anna Shelton - It’s the ever-so-slightly washed-out look of these photographs that lends a lonely resonance to them. I love it.

The Art of Jim Denevan

I am never bored with looking at Chernobyl’s dead towns and villages. As I travel the picture moves on, it seems always tells the same story: ruined towns, destroyed villages, abandoned farms… but the moving panorama is never the same, it is always different.. I never get bored with it, just like I never bored with looking at the flame of a camp-fire or watching the waves of the sea.

From the depths of my delicious bookmarks, a photographer, Elena Filatova, who regularly travels to Chernobyl to document the progression of its deterioration. There was a History Channel series not too long ago called Life After People. This is that without fiction or computer graphics. Amazing and daring work.

Beautiful, haunting work. Choice quote:

“One of the appropriate metaphoric things in this whole process is that I found out from a doctor that collodion was used in surgery during the Civil War to bind wounds, and I thought ‘Oh, how fitting that I should be taking this process to the deep South.’” - Sally Mann

[From St. Hanshaugen, Hammerfest, Norway] (LOC) (via The Library of Congress on Flickr)

What’s a photochrom?
Published primarily from the 1890s to 1910s, these prints were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Detroit Publishing Company in Michigan. The richly colored images look like photographs but are actually ink-based photolithographs, usually 6.5 x 9 inches.

I love the washed-out, bronze look of these. Check out the whole set.

Animated stereoviews of old Japan ::: Pink Tentacle : Stereoscopic images of turn-of-the-century Japan. Wow. (Via Coudal).