These Autochromes - the first commercially available color photographic process - were taken by National Geographic Society photographers. The Society eventually moved on to other slightly more advanced photographic processes and finally to Kodachrome by 1938, but not before amassing a collection of more than 12,000 Autochromes.
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Kevin Frayer: Roof of the World
Kevin Frayer has spent years documenting the daily life and challenges of Tibetan nomads. His stunning body of work captures the traditions and identity of a people rooted in a nomadic lifestyle, living on lush grasslands. In July, Frayer also documented one of the festivals that is sponsored by the...
Richard Misrach & Kate Orff: Petrochemical America
Petrochemical America features Richard Misrach's haunting photographic record of Louisiana's Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff's Ecological Atlas--a series of "speculative drawings" developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the complex cultural, physical and economic ecologies along 150 miles...
PhotoBiography: Joey L.
Joseph Anthony Lawrence, best known as Joey L., is a Canadian-born photographer and director based in Brooklyn, New York. Having borrowed his father’s digital point-and-shoot camera at the age of 10, Joey turned to photography as a means of expressing his creativity, which ultimately transformed into a lifelong passion. Largely...
Nastasia Faivre: Frenesie/Frenzy
My work is a reflection on contemporary cities and more specifically about the proliferation of modern urban space. To show the frenzy from the activity and the density of urban areas, I use long exposures and the juxtaposition. It allows me to condense moments in a single image which represents the movement found...
Interview with Portrait photographer Vinit Gupta
How did you get into photography? The first motivation to getting in photography was travelling, but later, while volunteering with Not to Profit Organisation, I realized how we can use photography as a tool for social and documentary research. In 2011 left my corporate job and start working with development...
Louviere + Vanessa: Resonantia
This September, Louviere + Vanessa will transform Candela Books + Gallery into an immersive, multi-sensory environment, incorporating animated vinyl record, film, and abstract photographs. While preparing for this exhibition we have been trying to wrap our minds around the labor-intensive process of New Orleans based artists Louviere + Vanessa’s new...
The Beatles during the ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ in 1967
Photos from an unseen clip shows the Beatles en route to Newquay, the final destination of the Magical Mystery Tour in 1967. (Pictures © Apple Films Ltd)
Eric Meola: Storm Chaser
Traveling across more than seven Midwestern states with a professional storm-chasing group called Tempest Tours, Eric Meola documented everything from hair-raising tornadoes to serene sunsets. While interested in the interplay between light and color in the sky, he also sought to portray signs of life in the old towns they...
Shinichi Maruyama: Nude Dancers
Shinichi Maruyama is Japan born photographer who moved to New York in 2003. In Nude series Shinichi tried to capture the beauty of both the human body’s figure and its motion. The figure in the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000...