David Hockney discussing Pear Blossom Highway

Pear Blossom Highway Video

a timeline of fantastic photomontage and its possible influences, 1857 - 2007

Excellent timeline of photomontage from its early beginnings to the near present

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TIMELINE

Weeki Wachee by Toni Frissell

Weeki Wachee Spring 1947

Published in: Harper's Bazaar, Dec. 1947; Sport's Illustrated, 1955

1938 underwater photography by Bruce Mozertom

by Bruce Mozertom

Alberto Seveso

Neil Duerdon

Neil

Gates of Hell

Jacek Yerka - Painter of Fantasy

Jacek Yerka

Pripyat 20 years on from the Chenobyl Disaster

Pripyat Canteen / Dinning Hall—Druzhba. By

Mark Resnicoff

sign by Elena Filatova

Pripyat, Ukraine - once home to 50,000 people was swiftly abandoned immediately after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986

Tarot Cards Resource - History Etc...

Trionfi

Beate Gutschow

LS#3 1999

S#14 2005

Ori Gersht

Blow Up 2007

Saturn at Equinox

From 20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini's wide angle camera shot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's disk was exactly overhead at the planet's equator. The images were taken on Aug. 12, 2009, at a distance of approximately 847,000 km (526,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

Cinerama

Enhanced perspective to give a similar view to that of natural eyesight

Phi - 1.618....The Golden Number

Phi ( = 1.618033988749895... ), most often pronounced fi like "fly," is simply an irrational number like pi ( p= 3.14159265358979... ), but one with many unusual mathematical properties. Unlike pi, which is a transcendental number, phi is the solution to a quadratic equation.

Phi in relation to Art:

As the Golden Section is found in the design and beauty of nature, it can also be used to achieve beauty and balance in the design of art. This is only a tool though, and not a rule, for composition.

The Golden Section was used extensively by Leonardo Da Vinci. Note how all the key dimensions of the room and the table in Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" were based on the Golden Section, which was known in the Renaissance period asThe Divine Proportion.

The Commissar Vanishes

This is a collection of photographs of statesmen in the time of the Russian Revolution and Stalin. The books tells how they were made and falsified later, when people quit politics or vanished.

Composograph Events in the Evening Graphic

The Evening Graphic’s faked photographs included twenties superstar actor Rudolph Valentino on the surgeon’s table, and a faked execution chamber scene with the condemned man strapped into the electric chair. One notable cover page showed Valentino and opera star Enrico Caruso meeting in the afterlife. Critics soon dubbed The Evening Graphic

“The Porno Graphic"

The composograph above shows Daddy Browning giving Peaches a doll baby, while (according to her
divorce trial testimony) Daddy kept a pet goose in their bedroom.

Light Painting Masters

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Barry Underwood

Michael Bosanko

Pablo Picasso

Minty Forrest Photo Project

One year ago in March 2008, we (Nina Barry and Josh Shayne) set out with a simple idea:

They would each take a photo every day and, operating under a pact of absolute secrecy, neither would know what the other is working on. Each morning, they would post our photos on Minty Forest side by side. It was an exciting experiment in blind collaboration and we have been more than thrilled with the many surprising combinations that came together over the last year.

Timescapes Discussion Forum

A place to get tips on time lapse photography/videography using a DSLR camera HERE

Stunning Thirsty Bats by Kim Taylor