- Need some DIY camera inspiration? Check out the cardboard cameras and ethereal photographs of Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý at the International Center of Photography exhibition online or on the ground, if you’re in NYC.
- Artist Daniel Ingroff has created mosaicism.org, which takes newspaper, magazine clippings, and other ephemera collected by the Los Angeles Public Library and presents it in a completely mesmerizing and de-contextualized mosaic. [via i heart photograph]
- The girl that inspired it all. In anticipation of the new Alice in Wonderland movie, check out stories and a photo of the original Alice muse at NPR. [via Effie Kapsalis, SPI]
- Colin Pantall turned me on to this Guardian article that discusses recent scientific studies that examine why people often look so glum in photographs. Apparently, Prada print models don’t need to smile, unlike their Walmart counterparts, because consumers perceive that smiling = submission = lower status!
- Haha. A new iPhone app called Is This Art? helps you understand if what you’re looking at is art by responding to your snapshots of questionable objects with snappy one-liners such as, “Sister Wendy would not find God in this, therefore THIS IS NOT ART.” [via C-MONSTER.net]
- Sometimes repetitive subject matter in photojournalism is powerful and necessary. Pete Brook at Prison Photography highlights a powerful group of photographs of victims of acid attacks and their important role in advocacy efforts.
- I love Eudora Welty’s prose, but I had no idea she began her creative career as a photographer. The Smithsonian Magazine sheds a light:
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