Caslon Projects

I never cease to be amazed at the stupendous quality of NASA’s photography in outer space. Photographed with the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope,  the above image depicts gas fleeing a dying star 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation. More info and photos here. Via NY Times. var addthis_language = [...]

Above: A prototype with the new name, and The Beaver’s last issue. Looking for Beavers? If you’re using a computer connected to a censored area of the internet, such as at a school, certain keywords will send your emails to spam, or you’ll be denied access to websites containing such keywords. And so went the [...]

Screenshot from Black Market, a documentary project by Patrick Brown. Australian photographer Patrick Brown has been documenting the illegal trade of wildlife for the last five years. His work has taken him across much of Asia and to the market’s hub in China. His work explores the network of operations from the poachers to the [...]

The Council Bluffs Drive-In, Iowa, by by Carl Weese. Since 1998, Carl Weese has traveled to 27 states in search of theaters that convey a story of the nation’s love affair with the automobile and the open road, as well as a sense of the country’s past and present. See more photos and read about [...]

Dennis Stock: CALIFORNIA—Venice Beach Rock Festival, 1968. “I’ve never taken an assignment,” Mr. Stock said last year during an address to photojournalism students at the University of Texas. “I’ve always photographed what I wanted to be photographing, and then worried about selling the pictures or doing something with them afterwards. I’ve always shot for myself, [...]

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On view at the Smithsonian, February 12, 2010 – May 9, 2010: Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan O’Sullivan developed a forthright and rigorous style in response to the landscapes of the American West, and returned to Washington, D.C. with hundreds of photographs that revealed an artist whose reach far surpassed [...]

Gettysburg, photograph by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, July 1863. An excerpt from Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War, published, 1865-66: Such a picture conveys a useful moral: It shows the blank horror and reality of war, in opposition to its pageantry. Here are the dreadful details! Let them aid in preventing such another calamity [...]

The above photo is by Cédric Gerbehaye: “I’m not looking for the combat,” he said. “I’m interested in trying to tell the story of the people.” See a great photo essay on the Congo from July 2008 by Mr. Gerbehaye, with writing by Amber Benham here. Via NY Times Lens Blog. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var [...]

Robert Smithson’s monumental earth work, Spiral Jetty, was executed in 1970. The 1500 foot long counter-clockwise spiral jutts out from the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. It is only visible when the water in the lake falls below 4,197.8 feet, which means it was submerged for almost 3 decades after its construction. [...]

I visited Coyote Buttes, the extreme south central region of Utah (& into northern Arizona), where one can find some astonishing Jurassic-age Navajo Sandstone (about 190 million years old). It’s called The Wave and is formed from old sand dunes turned into rock over the ages, calcifying in vertical and horizontal layers. Erosion by wind [...]

Click on the above graphic for a larger version. The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Lack of health insurance is a factor in life span and contributes to an estimated 45,000 deaths a [...]

The Tintic Standard Mill, a former metal processing plant, is located near Goshen, Utah. The remaining foundations are perched on the side of a mountain and beside natural warm springs (long contaminated by metals). Above: A photo of the plant while it was still in production (1921 to 1925). Below: a series of photos of [...]