Killed Negatives of The Great Depression
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2018
During America’s Great Depression, the Information Division of the U.S. Farm Security Administration sent out an army of photographers to d...
Showing posts with the label Photography
‘Windows of the World’ by André Vicente Gonçalves
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2018
Portuguese photographer André Vicente Gonçalves’s “Windows of the World” is a fascinating look into the architectural trend in window design...
World War II’s Other Iconic Photo: Raising A Flag Over The Reichstag
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2018
When photographer Joe Rosenthal snapped the picture of five US marines and a Navy sailor raising the American flag over the battle-scarred J...
The Pigeons Who Took Photos
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2018
At the turn of the last century, when aviation was still in its infancy, a German named Julius Neubronner submitted a patent for a new inven...
Women Who Become Men: The Sworn Virgins of Albania
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2018
In the remote mountains of northern Albania are villages where there are women who live and act like men. They have short hair, wear baggy p...
Tianducheng: A Fake Paris in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2018
These two photographs of the Eiffel Tower look very similar, but they aren’t the same, which you can probably tell from their different surr...
Modern Potemkin Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2017
In 1787, Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia, was scheduled for a grand tour of the newly acquired lands of Crimea and New Russia—now...
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin’s Color Photographs of Pre-Revolution Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2017
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer, best known for his pioneering work in color photography during t...
People Matching Artworks
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 7, 2017
Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan spends hours hanging around museums looking for curious coincidences where visitors perfectly match t...
Inside The Strange World of Soviet Sanatoriums
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2017
In Soviet Russia, vacations were as purposeful as work. Many state workers of the era, instead of wasting time in idleness, used the holiday...
The Otherworldly Colors of Morocco’s Deserts
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2017
It’s amazing what a little change in light can do to a landscape. Blue skies can turn red, orange sand can turn purple. In this photo series...
The Topiary Trees of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2017
San Francisco residents have a particularly strong liking for topiary trees, as apparent from these photographs taken by three different pho...
Kito Fujio’s Dramatic Photos of Japanese Playgrounds At Night
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2017
Ever since Kito Fujio quit his job as an office worker to become a freelance photographer, he has been exploring every possible nook and co...
Haiti’s Wandering Street Pharmacies
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2017
In the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince, one need not be a pharmacist to sell medicine. All you need is a bucket and the willingness t...
Karaba Brick Quarry of Burkina Faso
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2017
Bricks are usually molded from clay, but in Karaba, a small African village in southwestern Burkina Faso, bricks are quarried out of the hil...
Tommy Tucker: The Famous Squirrel Who Cross-Dressed And Sold War Bonds
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2016
It is said that Tommy Tucker fell from a tree one fine afternoon in 1942 in the backyard of the Bullis’ house, in Washington, D.C., while he...
Day And Night on a Little Planet
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2016
This extraordinary image resembling a tiny planet is actually a digitally warped and stitched mosaic of a panorama captured during the cours...
Tokyo’s Bird Menace
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2016
For decades, the city of Tokyo has been waging a losing battle against winged invasion. Crows, cormorants, owls and birds of other species h...
Bangladeshi Aviator Shoots Stunning Aerial Photos of His Green Country
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2016
Bangladeshi Air Force pilot Shamim Shorif Susom , a passionate photographer, has been taking advantage of his profession and capturing breat...
Before & After Photos of Syria Reveals War’s Destructive Effects
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2016
The historic city of Aleppo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world, lies in ruins today. The civil war in Syria, whi...
