Holly Bailey

Sad Farewell by Duane Michals, 1968

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natgeofound:

Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

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timelightbox:

Photograph by John Moore—Getty Images

“I sped out to the airport, met up with my charter pilot and we set off in a Robinson R-44 Raven II helicopter into a stiff headwind for the 45 minute flight to the ‘target,’ as he put it,” photographer John Moore tells TIME. He was on assignment for Getty Images on May 14, 2013, tasked with shooting aerial photographs of the iconic JetStar roller coaster in Seaside Heights, New Jersey; now slated for demolition more than six months after Hurricane Sandy had “tossed it in the Atlantic Ocean.”  

“I had originally planned to fly later in the afternoon, a little closer to sunset, for the best light,” Moore says, until a tip came in from Getty staff photographer Mark Wilson, who was shooting the scene from the ground, that “the crane was making quick work of it and that I’d better hurry and get up in the air before it was all gone.”

“We flew in circles over the scene for about 25 minutes at varying altitudes, hoping to get a moment when the crane would lift a large piece of the debris from the surf,” he says. The photograph above, featured in this week’s issue of TIME and in LightBox Pictures of the Week, was made “from a height of about 500 feet, shot in the mid-afternoon with a high shutter speed in order to eliminate any possible camera shake from the helicopter.”

“You can see the beach of the Jersey Shore stretching northward, much of it, unlike the jagged pier, restored ahead of the upcoming tourist season, which begins anew with Memorial Day Weekend,” Moore adds. “Local business owners and residents hope the tourist income will help Seaside Heights get back to normal after Sandy’s cruel seas washed so much of their community away.”

—Eugene Reznik

See more of this week’s best photos on LightBox.

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From the LA Times archive: A roller-skating elephant.

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newyorker:

In this week’s issue, Rebecca Mead writes about a new paradigm in care for people with dementia (subscription required): http://nyr.kr/12eanzw. Click here for a slide show of Phillip Toledano’s photographs from the Beatitudes Dementia Ward: http://nyr.kr/12E1LTj

“It’s almost like déjà vu every time you walk into a McDonald’s because they all look alike,” he says. “But the characters are never the same.”

Nolan Conway’s portraits of McDonalds customers (via Wired)

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Atlanta, 2011 from Martin Parr USA Color (via Photo Booth)

inothernews:

FLUBBER DUCKY  Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s 54-foot-tall rubber duck is seen in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, on May 2 (top); after it suffered structural damage (middle); and finally, flat as a deflated souffle on Tuesday.  Police are looking to question Bert the Muppet, who was seen fleeing the scene with a giant needle.  (Photos: Bobby Yip / Reuters [top]; Tyrone Siu / Reuters [middle]; and Vincent Yu / AP via NBCNews.com)

Photos of the newly-opened World Trade Center and Manhattan’s Financial District in 1973 (via Curbed NY)

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Chanan is arguably the preeminent cat photography team in the country. The name “Chanan” is a roundabout abbreviation and concatenation of the husband-wife duo’s first names, Richard and Nancy. Richard has been photographing cats as his primary occupation since 1976 (his entry into this improbable niche came by way of his mother, an avid cat breeder), and Nancy has assisted him for much of that time. Over the decades, Chanan have cultivated, and established themselves as the principal purveyors of, the favored portraiture aesthetic of cat breeders worldwide… Chanan’s characteristic style places the subject in front of a jewel tone backdrop, and captures it in a wide-eyed state of alert. I had seen Chanan’s photos before, but I had never witnessed their process until 2008, when I encountered Richard working solo at the CFA Iams Cat Championship in Madison Square Garden. I watched him for nearly an hour, mesmerized, as he shot three ethereal show cats one after another. His left hand manipulated toys from an extensive arsenal of strings, feathers, and sticks, goading the cats into positions resembling poses, while his right hand snapped photos during the narrow windows of photogenicity. Sometimes he’d ask the owner for assistance (“Pet him again… now stand over there and call his name…”), and occasionally he’d emit a loud, sudden trilling noise to capture a cat’s attention. Eminently professional and efficient, Richard also seemed to maintain a constant sense of amusement about the whole thing, even after more than thirty years in the biz.

Famous cat photographers. They exist. (via The Awl)

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powerhousebooks:

#VivianMaier #StreetPhotographer to be followed by #SelfPortrait. Releases Fall ‘13.

Lens profiles the Garry Winogrand exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art which runs until June 2. I saw it when I was in town last weekend, and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves street photography. A friend commented that it’s a lot of material to look at—and it is. There are hundreds of photographs—including part of the 6,500 rolls of films that went undeveloped when he died in 1984. But what you’ll find is just gorgeous—especially scenes from old school New York and his obsession with photographing couples on the street and in otherwise casual moments.