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"Weird Beauty" series by Alexander Khokhlov

"Weird Beauty" series by Alexander Khokhlov
Moscow-based photographer Alexander Khokhlov uses the human face as his canvas for creating graphic, black and white illustrations. From the WiFi icon to the skip of a pulse line across his model's eyes, Khokhlov's vision is extraordinarily unique. Rather than relying on canvas, paper, or any other synthetic material as his foundation, Khokhlov relies on the beauty and lines of the feminine face to form this project, entitled Weird Beauty. The well designed face art, combined with simple and elegant female faces, presents viewers with a complex optical illusion of positive and negative space. Alexander Khokhlov's website via [PetaPixel] Related:  Photography of Women

"Domestic Bliss" By Susan Copich Una artista, casada y madre de dos niñas, ha revolucionado el concepto de la tradicional fotografía de familia, con una serie de polémicas imágenes titulada Domestic Bliss (Felicidad doméstica). Después de pasar años como una abnegada madre, prestando constantemente y casi de forma exclusiva atención a sus niñas, haciendo infinidad de fotografías en las que nunca jamás aparecía ella misma, a la ex bailarina Susan Copich se le ocurrió la idea de este proyecto fotográfico único, pensó que podía girar la cámara hacia sí misma, de recuperar su identidad, y de "mostrar una serie de honestidad emocional". Cada una de las imágenes de la serie Felicidad Doméstica tiene lo que Susan llama una "vuelta de tuerca de las tinieblas". El toque tenebroso es su elemento más audaz, que desafía nuestra percepción normal de la felicidad familiar. Disfrutemos de sus inquietantes fotografías..

Bodies in Urban Spaces | Don't Panic Magazine People of urban spaces, keep a lookout for mysterious figures in brightly coloured hoodies occupying corners you never knew your city had. We spoke to art director Willi Dorner who has been arranging faceless people in public places for seven years now. What is Bodies in Urban Spaces? BIUS started as a photo-project in July 2004. They offered me a card blanche. Who gets involved? People on the street, passers by, pedestrians and the performers. How do you decide where to go? I always go there ahead of time before I start working on the installations. How do people react when they see you? Well, this is quite a wide range of reactions, from 'wow' and surprise, laughing, smiling to the other end of the spectrum provoking anger, aggression. What do you want people to take away from the experience of seeing Bodies in Urban Spaces? The bodies help them to see their own city again, I want them to take time and to contemplate the environment they live in. What's up next?

butterfly (1984) "Afghan Girl" by Steve McCurry 1985 cover photograph on National Geographic magazine Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic.[1][2][3][4] While the portrait's subject initially remained unknown, she was identified by early 2002: Gula, an ethnic Pashtun from Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province, was a 12-year-old child residing in Pakistan's Nasir Bagh. Cover photo for National Geographic[edit] Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an informal school at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in 1984. The photograph, entitled Afghan Girl, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. Identifying the subject[edit] The team found Gula, then around age 30, in a remote region of Afghanistan; she had returned to her native country from the refugee camp in 1992. Subject: Sharbat Gula[edit]

6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads. For instance, you have the following enigmas that we believe were created for no other purpose than to fuck with future generations. The Voynich Manuscript The Mystery: The Voynich manuscript is an ancient book that has thwarted all attempts at deciphering its contents. It appears to be a real language--just one that nobody has seen before. Translation: "...and when you get her to put the tennis racket in her mouth, have her stand in a fountain for a while. There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even when it was written. Why Can't They Solve It? Could you? Don't even try. As you can imagine, proposed solutions have been all over the board, from reasonable to completely clownshit. Our Guess:

Anonymous Confessions As they say, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas – but what if we could share with full discretion? Everyone of us has his own little secrets and ‘Confessions’, a public art project by american artist Candy Chang, invites people to anonymously share their confessions and see the confessions of people around them in the heart of the Las Vegas strip. Chang lived in Las Vegas for a month and turned her P3 Studio gallery into a contemplative place for people to share their confessions and being fascinated by the secrets others hide inside themselves. Inspired by Post Secret, Shinto shrine prayer walls, and Catholicism, people could write and submit their confessions on wooden plaques in the privacy of confession booths. By the end of the exhibition, over 1500 confessions were displayed on the walls. It’s about sex, love, or fears of dying alone. All images © Candy Chang | Via: My Modern Met

Social Benches by Jeppe Hein Incredible design of benches by artist Jeppe Hein… Jeppe Hein Concept incroyable de bancs par l’artiste Jeppe Hein… Places That Are Actually Real But Don't Look So | Art Ideas - Graphic Designs and Arts These places look so unreal, but they are real! Maybe some of you were on one of these beautiful place, and if one of you did, you are than really happy person who live on this planet! Just look how this photos are cool and so sweet.

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