The day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Steve Buscemi (top left), who worked as a firefighter from 1980-1984, showed up at his old fire station, Engine Company No. 55 in the Little Italy section of New York.
For the next week he worked 12-hour shifts, digging through the rubble trying to find the bodies of missing firefighters, all the while refusing to do interviews or have his picture taken. “
It was a privilege to be able to do it,” the 45-year-old actor said. “It was great to connect with the firehouse I used to work with and with some of the guys I worked alongside. And it was enormously helpful for me because while I was working, I didn’t really think about it as much, feel it as much.
“It wasn’t until I stopped that I really felt the full impact of what had happened. It would have been much harder for me to get through it if I hadn’t been able to do that.” - text and photo via Indie King and @Alex_Ogle
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A behind-the-scenes look at the craftsmanship and making of Leica lenses.
Amazing photos from inside the cooling tower of an abandoned power plant.
Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago, 1949
The Ruins Of Detroit
A 5 year project to document the living decay that Detroit has become. In their new book Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have captured a once prosperous city that has found itself unable to change to adjust to the post automobile revolution. Haunting images of theaters, banks and stations that feel like they belong more in apocalyptic an movie rather than as a current part of the American landscape.
The End of an Era
Growing up the son of a photographer, I had constant exposure (pardon the pun) to many different types of photographic film one of which was Kodachrome. Although discontinued by Kodak in 2009, processing was still available until Dec. 30, 2010 when the last piece of film was due to be processed. Although I moved on to digital years ago it is important to note what critical role this particular film played in the history of photography.
Demanding both to shoot and process, Kodachrome rewarded generations of skilled users with a richness of color and a unique treatment of light that many photographers described as incomparable even as they shifted to digital cameras. “Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,” Paul Simon sang in his 1973 hit “Kodachrome,” which carried the plea “Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.”
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San Francisco Water Front Dock
Dentsu London Just launched a project in collaboration with biochemist/photographer, Linden Gledhill for Canon’s PIXMA colour printer range. The project features surreal ‘sound sculptures’ made of dancing droplets of paint captured in extreme detail as they react to sound waves.
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The TV Room At Graceland. Check out the TVs set into the wall. Elvis was ahead of his time when it came to home electronics integration.
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