Felice Beato

Ripped from the Getty site because I'm LAZY. Does not serve to diminish the scale, impact & clarity of vision in Beato's pioneering work. I implore any inquisitive mind/ambling surfer to take a closer squiz. The Japanese portraits & panoramic landscapes merit much much more than mere historic record.

"Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma.

Beato's photographic career was also long affiliated with images of war. He photographed the Opium War in China in 1860 and the Sudanese colonial wars in 1885.

While in partnership with his brother-in-law James Robertson in the 1850s, Beato documented the Indian Mutiny and its aftermath. Their photographs are believed to be the first to show human corpses on a battlefield. Beato and Robertson were also among the earliest photographers to work in the Holy Land"

Fun & dereliction.

I went to a theme park on Monday. Apparently a lot of the planets remaining single-cell complex amoeba did too. A lot of "undesirables" with questionable taste in most areas of life, let me tell you...
Anywho. I digress.

My mind wandered as a function - what happens to Theme Parks when they die?? Here's what.

I wish I could claim this as my own. Sadly not. Read the full article here

Props for SUPERBOMBA

AKA Lucy Diamond-Phillips, who takes other people's pictures and makes them her own on her Flickr page. JOB ENVY.

“My obsession with old photos started by accident in 2007. I’ve always liked making up stories about people I don’t know and the idea of time travel, and old photos allow me to do both. I have no plans for a book or an exhibition. I’d feel sorry for the photos that didn’t make the cut. One day I might make a magazine on nice paper with photos found across the world so people could tear out the pictures and keep them in their pockets. I’d make issues until the world either ran out of old photos to publish or trees to make nice paper from, whichever came first.”