In the Loupe

A space for seeing photographs. See my photography at mlrobak.tumblr.com.

[tokyostreetphoto]

Tachinomi, Nakano 中野

[joe-aguirre-deactivated20181105]

Self. 

[mpdrolet]

From Krysuvik

David Magnusson

[s-p-n]

[naturalmachine]

A preview of some images in the book, Street Photography Now.

[bazaardotco]

Detroit, Michigan, c. 1960 — Balthazar Korab

[mymodernmet]

Iranian photographer Hossein Fatemi, offers a glimpse of an entirely different side to Iran than the image usually broadcasted by domestic and foreign media. In his photo series An Iranian Journey, many of the photographs reveal an Iran that most people never see, presenting an eye-opening look at the amazing diversity and contrasts that exist in the country.

[wired]

Just beautiful.

[naturalmachine]

Beautiful (I had the exact same thought!)!

[mpdrolet]

Untitled, 2000

William Eggleston

[laughingsquid]

Photographers Who Documented Gentrifying Landscape of New York City Revisit Same Locations Ten Years Later

[naturalmachine]

Bummer, man.

[mpdrolet]

Self-portrait, Mexico, 1982

Allen Ginsberg

[mpdrolet]

From Colors of the Wind

René & Radka

[davidsimonton]

"I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You’ll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way that you can avoid this. But...

[naturalmachine]

Absolutely agree!  When I'm feeling blocked, I try to look at a bunch of photos.  This usually gets my gears spinning and my shutter finger clicking!

[valerian]

Photographers do not cure like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, offer support like a priest, amuse like a raconteur or intoxicate like a singer, they simply look. That is enough—no, that is all. For a photographer, to look is everything. That is why photographers must continue to look things through and through. Photographers should gaze at their subjects head on, their whole form becoming an eye as they face the world. To stake their everything on looking, that is to be a photographer

Shomatsu Tomei

The Pencil of the Sun, Mainichi Shimbun, 1975

via: To look is everything: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Masahisa Fukase and Shomei Tomatsu 

(via valerian)

[onlyoldphotography]

Constantine Manos: Daytona Beach, Florida. 1997.

[reginasworld]

In his series, Behind a Little House,  Manuel Cosentino transforms a tiny little house on a simple hill into a series of dramatically majestic landscapes. For two years, the Italian photographer documented the same location, capturing the house set against the changing light and weather throughout the years.

[timelightbox]

Photograph by Trent Parke—Magnum/Courtesy of Steidl

A Summertime Christmas in Australia: Go Inside Trent Parke’s Family Photo Album on LightBox.

[mpdrolet]

Petra Vlčková

[life]

The art of being jolly: LIFE goes to Santa Claus school in 1961.

(Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)