Tag: Travel Photography
Beauty Amid Ugliness
by Rob Verger | 09.27.10 | 9:50 AM ET
What the simple act of taking lots of photos in Sao Paulo revealed to Rob Verger
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Yahoo! BuzzPhoto You Must See: Shooting Star Over Stonehenge
by World Hum | 09.07.10 | 4:19 PM ET
REUTERS/Kieran Doherty A meteor drops through the starry sky above Stonehenge, in southern England, during the annual Perseid meteor shower
China’s 10-Day Traffic Jam, in Photos
by Eva Holland | 08.24.10 | 4:50 PM ET
NPR has a sequence of remarkable photos from the ongoing jam, which stretches for more than 60 miles. Hat tip to Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker, who speculates about how the AP photographers managed to make it to and from the scene: “I’m imagining a dirt bike was involved.”
Uncornered Market: ‘Sh*t I Wouldn’t Eat Again’
by Eva Holland | 08.05.10 | 10:40 AM ET
Foodie traveler Daniel Noll dishes on the overseas meals he wouldn’t like to repeat. Fair warning: The accompanying photos are harrowing. I’m not sure which is scarier, the Laotian blood bouillon or Argentina’s “anti-pizza.”
A Century’s Worth of Change in our Favorite Public Spaces
by Eva Holland | 08.03.10 | 4:55 PM ET
The Traveler’s Notebook has put together a fascinating collection of then-and-now photo pairings, showing tourist classics like the Pyramids of Giza or London’s Tower Bridge both 100 years ago and today.
Naturally, the photo essay sent me straight to Google to see how some other favorite spots have changed. Here’s Dawson City’s Front Street, first in its 1898 Gold Rush heyday and then as it is today:
Photos: Adventures in Airport Contraband
by Eva Holland | 08.02.10 | 3:49 PM ET
The New York Times Magazine offers up a selection of photos from Taryn Simon’s forthcoming photography book, “Contraband,” shot over five days at JFK. The seized items range from the predictable—pharmaceuticals, bongs, “mixed fruits”—to the truly bizarre: Cow-hoof bottle, anyone? (Via Kottke)
The Big Picture’s Summer of Storms
by Eva Holland | 07.27.10 | 1:04 PM ET
The photography blog rounds up dramatic storm shots from the past few weeks, taken everywhere from Anchorage to Bangkok. We decided to get into the act, too—here’s a shot of a lightning strike over Jiujiang, in China’s Jiangxi province.
‘I Can’t Remember a Time When Cartier-Bresson’s Images Did Not Exist in my Mind’
by Eva Holland | 06.29.10 | 10:31 AM ET
Over at The Smart Set, Jason Wilson pushes back against the critics of the soon-to-wrap Cartier-Bresson exhibit at MoMA—and wonders, at the same time, how much of his resistance to the criticism is purely personal. It’s a good read. Here’s a taste:
It hit me as I approached the mural-sized world maps that greet museum-goers at the show’s entrance, with dotted lines tracing Cartier-Bresson’s famous journeys over several decades. Ringing in my ears was Schjeldahl’s snarky take: “This suggests a novel measurement of artistic worth: mileage. It seems relevant only to the glamour quotient—a cult, practically—of Cartier-Bresson’s persona, pointing up what seems to me most resistible in his work.”
Ouch, I thought. But mainly because I was flashing on my own career as a travel writer, one that began 15 years ago when I gave up writing a novel. I’ve always harbored my own deep fears that I passed, miles ago, over that “impassable” line from art to journalism, never to return.
Postcards From the ‘World’s Most Failed States’
by Michael Yessis | 06.24.10 | 10:21 AM ET
There’s a Big Picture-esque slideshow at Foreign Policy, with some horrific and amazing shots from Chad, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and other unstable places. As Elizabeth Dickinson writes, sometimes you “only know a failed state when you see it.”
Swells and Snow: Surfing Iceland’s Cold Frontiers
by Nathan Myers | 06.24.10 | 9:44 AM ET
Photo by Nathan Myers Nathan Myers captures the frozen isolation of Iceland's uncharted surf scene
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Five Great Travel Book Covers
by World Hum | 06.15.10 | 9:05 AM ET
These books all made our list of the 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time
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Mapped: Photos by Locals vs. Photos by Tourists
by Michael Yessis | 06.09.10 | 9:51 AM ET
A very cool set of maps on Flickr harnesses geotagging in an attempt to show which parts of cities tend to be photographed by tourists, and which areas of cities tend to be photographed by locals. The maps I looked at aren’t particularly surprising—in the San Francisco Bay Area, for instance, tourists can’t get enough of the Golden Gate Bridge (tourist shots are red in the image below), and they hardly ever photograph the East Bay (locals’ shots are in blue).
Nevertheless, it’s a simple, compelling way to share the information, and perhaps, as Jeff Pflueger mentioned in one of his travel photography columns, the kind of thing we can expect to see more of as travelers geotag their images. (Via The Morning News)
The World at Home
by Frank Bures | 06.03.10 | 11:05 AM ET
After years on the move, Frank Bures returned to Minnesota. Now, in his Minneapolis neighborhood, he finds himself transported across the globe.
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Video You Must See: ‘Running on Empty’ in Los Angeles
by Michael Yessis | 05.28.10 | 10:45 AM ET
Ross Ching has beautifully adapted Matt Logue's Empty L.A. concept.
Photos: Tokyo Taxi Tops
by Michael Yessis | 05.26.10 | 2:24 PM ET
Alexander James shares 50 of them in the Los Angeles Times Magazine. The tops feature, among other things, dogs, frogs and what appears to be a neon green football—see No. 17. (Via Coudal)
Seven Breakfasts Every World Traveler Must Eat
by Terry Ward | 05.20.10 | 11:57 AM ET
iStockPhoto Petit dejeuner, frühstück, desayuno -- call it what you will. Terry Ward dishes on some of the world's great breakfasts.
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Photo You Must See: Old and New Transport in Giza
by World Hum | 05.17.10 | 2:50 PM ET
REUTERS/Ho New A freestyle motocross rider jumps during a sunset training session near the Pyramids of Giza. The Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour competition took place there this weekend.
Photo You Must See: Rolling Clouds on Table Mountain
by World Hum | 05.13.10 | 11:22 AM ET
REUTERS/Mike Hutchings Taxis and buses wait for tourists as clouds engulf Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain
A Traveler at Dawn
by Larry Clark | 05.12.10 | 10:59 AM ET
Larry Clark Larry Clark revels in the promise of the day's first light
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Photo You Must See: Walking the Walk in Bryant Park
by World Hum | 05.10.10 | 11:42 AM ET
Frank Murray Kate Gilmore's live public performance art "Walk the Walk" features seven women in yellow dresses walking in circles in New York City's Bryant Park.