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Olaf Heine (Born 1968 in Hanover ) is a German photographer specializing in celebrity and band portraits. He has photographed Iggy Pop, Sting and Snoop Dog to name a few. "I like to work with people. The end result - the photography of people - is secondary. The creative process and the contact with the people I take pictures of, that’s the most important thing. That’s why I don’t really feel comfortable in the fashion scene, photographing models. Rather, I see myself as a creative person and I like to be surrounded by other creative people. I have always loved music. I certainly always had a thing for the travelling circus atmosphere of international rock and roll. My quest has always been to mix with other people and swap ideas, and that’s how I came to focus on portraits." ~ Olaf Heine Iggy Pop "Olaf is blessed with a clear and inescapable  German eye. You better run, or fight back." ~ Iggy Pop Snoop Dog Ray Liotta Don Cheadle Sting "It takes a rare photogra...

A beautiful and sublime glimpse into the past The daguerreotypes below are from the studio of Matthew Brady , one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of “father of photojournalism”. The Library of Congress received the majority of the Brady daguerreotypes as a gift from the Army War College in 1920. [via publicdomainreview ] Unidentified man, about 30 years of age. Photographed between 1844 - 1860 Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age (taken between  1851 and 1860) Unidentified U.S. Army officer James Buchanan Portrait of unidentified man [between 1844 and 1860], by Mathew Brady’s studio. Bishop Frederic Baraga holding his Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language William Cullen Bryant William C. Dawson   James Duncan Asher Brown Durand Memucan Hunt John M. Washington Zachary Taylor and his cabinet, all seated except President Taylor ...

Part Two: Daido Moriyama   Daido Moriyama is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese ‘Provoke’ movement. His grainy high contrast black-and-white photographs, focused on the urban environment of post-war Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, echo those of Klein’s New York. Like Klein, Moriyama has consistently revisited, reinvented and reworked his photographs within a process of constant flux. The Tate Modern’s latest exhibition ‘William Klein + Daido Moriyama‘ brings together the work of the two photographers as a double feature—side by side retrospectives of photographers whose work is inextricably linked but independently minded. [Via  Time Lightbox ] See more of Daidos' work here

Part One: Wilima Klein William Klein’s urgent, radical, gritty, blurred and out of focus photographs are as dynamic and visceral as any the medium has produced. His revolutionary magnus opus ‘Life is Good & Good For You in New York’ is an uncompromising, groundbreaking portrait of urban life, which at the time of its publication in 1956 not only shocked the established order, but reinvented the photographic document and is now widely regarded as one of photography’s greatest and most influential works.  [Via Time Lightbox ]