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Brandon Herman

Ian with headphone.

Photographs by Brandon Herman at the David Gallery, Culver City, CA. The exhibition runs from September 8th–October 13th, 2007.

In BrandonHermanLand the subjects are absorbed in their own intensely private worlds, whether it be cleaning the pool, contemplating a baseball in bed, or skateboarding nude at night. Herman’s talent as a photographer lies in managing to get his subjects to bare their souls as well as their bodies to the viewer.

Via Towleroad.

Untitled (Patrick swimming hole) (2006).

East of Paracelsus

East of Paracelsus, a view from Apollo 15 (1971).

One of a number of photographs from the Apollo missions being taken out of cold storage in Arizona and scanned at very high resolution, should you need a 1.3 GB image of the lunar surface. I was totally obsessed with the Apollo missions when I was a kid so I’m looking forward to more of this kind of imagery, especially at super-high res.

For other Moon pictures, Flickr is gradually accumulating shots of this week’s lunar eclipse.

Herb Ritts

A picture I hadn’t seen before: swimmer Greg Louganis photographed by Herb Ritts in 1987.

The recurrent pose 6

Further examples of the Flandrin pose from photographer Amat Nimitpark. Not sure what’s going on in the picture above but the scene below finds a use for a nearly-nude male that would no doubt have surprised Jean Hippolyte Flandrin. Needless to say, I can think of a few other uses for this blue-eyed boy…