I love these photos chronicling the history of the New York City subway. There is something about the way a city gets used, like any other space gets used, that is really fascinating to me. People getting their hustle on, handling their business, making it work.

Face2Face, a project by the anonymous JR.

When we met in 2005, we decided to go together in the Middle-East to figure out why Palestinians and Israelis couldn’t find a way to get along together. We then traveled across the Israeli and Palestinian cities without speaking much. Just looking to this world with amazement. This holy place for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This tiny area where you can see mountains, sea, deserts and lakes, love and hate, hope and despair embedded together. After a week, we had a conclusion with the same words: these people look the same; they speak almost the same language, like twin brothers raised in different families. A religious covered woman has her twin sister on the other side. A farmer, a taxi driver, a teacher, has his twin brother in front of him. And he his endlessly fighting with him. It’s obvious, but they don’t see that. We must put them face to face. They will realize.

Original TMF contributor and amazing photographer Ian Whitmore is working on a new photography project entitled Onomasticon.

Inspired by an ongoing photography project that addresses the prevailing sense of non-place in contemporary American urban and suburban landscape, onomasticon presents a new vocabulary for these ubiquitous, yet abstract spaces.

This series is comprised of 26 artists books. Each book will pair a single word—corresponding to a letter of the alphabet—with various imagery. This new vocabulary will be composed of words both obscure and familiar; they share poignantly relevant definitions to describe the images they accompany.

While the books’ focus will be the photographic images, they will also explore any number of media, including drawing, graphics, screen printing, etc.

These individual books become documents; experimenting with and exploring both visual literacy and written language.

He’s set up a Kickstarter entry to help fund the project. You can also watch a video of Ian talking about his project there. Good luck Ian! Looks like a great idea.

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Jonathan Harris (b. Aug 27, 1979) makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. His We Feel Fine Book is awesome. His TED talk is great. His one photo a day is nice. Take some time to look through all his projects.

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Our boy Ian Whitmore was recently included in Fraction Magazine’s Issue 14. Outstanding stuff, as always.

I love New York City. All the people, coming and going, everyone on their grind. Everyone on their hustle. Peter Funch is a photographer taking an interesting look at the similarities that exist within the crowds of people who walk the streets day in, day out. As far as I can tell he shoots multiple photos in one location and then compiles the similarities into one composite image. I love this stuff.

Rome

Speaking of cities… in the fall of 2009 my wife Katie and I took a trip to Italy. We went to three cities. We took a lot of photos. (A lot.) Here’s one photo for each city, very representative of our time in each place. From the celebration of being together, to the grit of “old as modern”, with an eye to the what next, always looking for the unexpected and the beautiful. Enjoy. (more…)

Photo © New York Times, by Damon Winter

NY Times: Photographer’s Journal – Double Exposures.

A friend of mine sent me this a few weeks ago. It was put together back in September of 2008 and I really like Damon Winter’s work and commentary. I always love hearing “behind the scenes” stories and learning about the processes that artists use in their work. Sit back and enjoy.

Woman on Webster by Jason Hardy

Over the years we have all adapted to new ways of interacting with media. One area that I have paid particular attention to is my relationship with photography, and more specifically, the actual taking of pictures.

It has changed in a number of ways since my early days of snapping pictures for the yearbook or shots of my skateboarding friends, but one of the most dramatic changes came when I switched from shooting film to shooting digital. All of the sudden I had the instant gratification and unlimited undos that come standard with personal computing, all applied to the way I took photos. And so it changed the way I took photos. (more…)

Camoflague by Liu Bolin

Designboom had a great post awhile back about the artwork of Liu Bolin. Worth a look.