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Nobody Does It Better

Mark Elliot Cullen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:50:08 +0000

Wateradio

Mark Elliot Cullen — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:39:24 +0000

Via Shorpy.

Untitled by Ron Jude

Mark Elliot Cullen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:13 +0000

Untitled from “Alpine Star” by Ron Jude. Via tv blog.

Photography by Ellen Rogers

Mark Elliot Cullen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:02:19 +0000

An interesting series of photographs from Ellen Rogers. The figures seem to exist in an over processed anachronic void.

There are some really phenomenal pictures in this series, but I hesitate to clutter this page with a long series of photographs. Instead, I suggest you view the whole set on her site. There isn’t really a designation where one set ends and the next begins, but all of her sets are interesting.

★ Death Drive in a Cadillac

Mark Elliot Cullen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:28:34 +0000

While I was browsing old car manuals searching for Studebakers, I came across a series of Cadillac brochures which advance the Cadillac lifestyle. As far as I can tell, the Cadillac line moved from sophisticated continental gentlemen to predatory equastrian-based molestation to murderous anti-human technical landscapes.

1959:

1971:

1987:

From Beck to Hendrix

Mark Elliot Cullen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:28:04 +0000

An interesting collection of rock and roll photography from Autumn and Jerry de Wilde focusing on the last 10 years and the 1960s. Is Thom Yorke wearing a calculator watch?

Masao Yamamoto’s Nakazora

Mark Elliot Cullen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:30:05 +0000

More at The Moment.

Reuters Published Fake Propaganda Photos

Mark Elliot Cullen — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:15:36 +0000

It is interesting to note that the boy’s supposedly injured right leg, “bleeding” profusely from the thigh, seems to be supporting itself. The soldier on the right also appears on many of the photos below in various capacities.

A very similar situation to the Iranian photoshops. Now I’m waiting (hoping) for the Errol Morris analysis.

James Mollison’s The Disciples

Mark Elliot Cullen — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:59:48 +0000

Galleries of concert goers. An example:

Some more from the set can be found on The Guardian, but you have to go to the end of the slide show to figure out what concert they’re taken from.

2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Bryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:51:33 +0000

I missed watching this since I don’t have access to television here in Ann Arbor at the moment. If you’re in the same boat as me—or not—check out these stunning pictures. (Via Bitch Ph.D..)

Bob and the Saint

Mark Elliot Cullen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:12:27 +0000

Great photos by Barry Feinstein taken from this book. [Via Welliot.]

Ridgemont Typologies

Mark Elliot Cullen — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:20:16 +0000

Great little consumer series.

Believing is Seeing

Bryan — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:49:16 +0000

Errol Morris in the New York Times’ photo-op:

I have asked myself how this controversy over a photograph became international news. Clearly, there are many reasons. But at the center of them all is this question: Are we on the brink of another war? I remind myself that the war in Iraq started with bellicose posturing and photographs. At the United Nations, Colin Powell displayed several photographs of Iraqi sites showing incontrovertible evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Of course, we now know that this incontrovertible visual evidence was false. We don’t need advanced digital tools to mislead, to misdirect or to confuse. All we need is a willingness to uncritically believe.