Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[nidhogg]

It started a long time before WW2 :

(snip)


Finally The Hosho was built : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japane...%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy

The comment was specifically about aircraft carriers. In the wikki article it says (further down):

In 1921, it launched the Hōshō, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier in the world to be completed,[79] and subsequently developed a fleet of aircraft carriers second to none.

If it was the "first in the world, unlikely that a "English pilot who gave the Japs info on how to build one" as said by BTK. hence my request for further information on his specific point.

[nidhogg]

^ Looking more around wikki, other boats were used as aircraft carriers before Hōshō, but they were probably adapted from pre-existing ships, thus the "first purpose designed". Again, unclear about what BTK was referring to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier

(about halfway down the entry).

[Latindancer]

It's all new to me. Fascinating stuff though, hence my looking it up in Wiki. I hadn't realized the Japs industrialized that early.

[Chittychangchang]

Not sure if these are on TD somewhere, these are off a friends FB and very interesting Old Thai pics, some contain partial nudity which was the norm back then.

Enjoy..



Check out all the old Lambretta scooters

[Chittychangchang]

[Chittychangchang]

Think this is the original Bridge over the river Kwai..

[Chittychangchang]

[Sumbitch]

A pair of de Havilland Mosquitoes in flight, c.1942.

So unpopular that Luftwaffe pilots were credited with two kills if they managed to shoot one down.

The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood and was nicknamed "The Wooden Wonder"....

When the Mosquito began production in 1941, it was one of the fastest operational aircraft in the world.[7] Entering widespread service in 1942, the Mosquito was a high-speed, high-altitude photo-reconnaissance aircraft, continuing in this role throughout the war. From mid-1942 to mid-1943 Mosquito bombers flew high-speed, medium or low-altitude missions against factories, railways and other pinpoint targets in Germany and German-occupied Europe. From late 1943, Mosquito bombers were formed into the Light Night Strike Force and used as pathfinders for RAF Bomber Command's heavy-bomber raids. They were also used as "nuisance" bombers, often dropping Blockbuster bombs - 4,000 lb (1,812 kg) "cookies" - in high-altitude, high-speed raids that German night fighters were almost powerless to intercept.

[ltnt]

^Takes me back to my National Geographic days leering at naked abos...

Japanese used the hulls from other ships initially to construct their early aircraft carriers. Look at Google Pic.'s black and white of Japanese aircraft carriers. You'll find photos galore and link to read the articles about their history and spec.'s. Could be a thread all by itself.

[Sumbitch]

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French, b. 1908, d. 2004

[VocalNeal]

Called the Tse-Tse Mosquito because it had a bigger sting.

57mm rate of fire about 1 a second.


Here's a photo recon one. When you can, use the best equipment available!

[VocalNeal]

Can you put one of those in there?

[stroller]

[stroller]

[Sumbitch]

^ FZ RIP.
^^ I was there (think I was. sure saw him in '70-'71 in S.D.)

[Sumbitch]

^ where the Polizei?

OK, fuck it. I need to take my antidepressant.

[stroller]

[bobo746]

[bobo746]

[Boon Mee]

Abrams P-1 Explorer, what a quirky machine!



Only one was ever built.

The Abrams P-1 Explorer was a United States purpose-designed aerial photography and survey aircraft that first flew in November 1937. It was designed by aerial survey pioneer Talbert Abrams to best suit his needs for a stable aircraft with excellent visibility for this kind of work. Abrams was an early aerial photographer, in World War I. He used a Curtiss Jenny post-war, forming ABC airlines. In 1923 Abrams founded Abrams Aerial Survey Company, and in 1937 Abrams Aircraft Corporation to build the specialized P-1 aircraft.




Maximum speed: at 10,000 ft (3,048 m) 200 mph (322 km/h)
Cruise speed: at 10,000 ft (3,048 m) 175 mph (282 km/h)
Range: 1,400 mi (1,931 km)
Service ceiling: 20,000 ft (6,096 m)
Rate of climb: initial 1,400 ft/min (7.1 m/s)

[Boon Mee]

Sweet!

[Boon Mee]

Great tail art



B-24?

[Sumbitch]

The 1960's ended in a curious manner for Frank Zappa, at an artistically uncertain point. What direction to go in next? It would be February of 1970 before ...

[rebbu]

Wow, the thread got moved to 'Famous Threads'. Beaming.

[rebbu]

Once a given, the absence of color in photography from the last few decades is now a deliberate choice, not a technological limitation. So why would a modern photographer opt for black and white, forgoing those vivid Lomo hues or subtle customized tones of an advanced SLR? Here are a few current big shots who don’t care for color, for whom shooting in black and white allows a specific style, a certain punch, a special magic their vision demands. Check ’em out in our slideshow and let us know if we missed anyone.


Boogie



This Belgrade-born, Brooklyn-based photographer shoots almost exclusively with black and white film; his work is the real deal. From gangs in New York City projects to skinheads in Serbia, from the streets of Tokyo to the back roads of Kingston… Yeah, we’re not trying to romanticize it, but he roams wide and deep, and catches potent, definitive moments effortlessly amidst the chaos. It’s photojournalism so good, it’s art. The grayscale, grainy grittiness is a perfect stylistic fit.

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison



Though varied, American husband and wife duo Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison’s most famous works from the Architect’s Brother series are black and white. Light sepia, if you want to get particular. These surreal environmental performances capture and “metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals, and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience.” The lack of color gives the photographs a noir, melancholy feel, and a weight of history that’s untethered to any specific decade.

Roger Ballen



New York-born, Johannesburg-based photographer Roger Ballen started with documentary photography in rural South Africa, then his oeuvre mutated, organically. Ballen’s surrealism isn’t synthesized; it’s drawn out with sculptural use of props and prudent, potent compositions. His instantly recognizable style gives edge to compatriots and collaborators Die Antwoord, and is dusted and smeared with an omnipresent layer of grime. Color would be aesthetically offensive.

Daidō Moriyama



Photographer Daidō Moriyama’s major work in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo tapped into the frantic zeitgeist of post-war Japan, but spans decades. Moriyama channeled the breakdown of traditional Japanese values with aggressive, high contrast, grainy grayscale street photography, dynamic, fleeting angles, and compositions almost harking at German Expressionism. The black and white adds fluid continuity. Also, sex. Tons of sex. Even sexier in black and white.

Joel-Peter Witkin



Controversial Albuquerque-based art photographer Joel-Peter Witkin shoots dead things in pieces. And anatomically unconventional nudes. Sometimes, those are also dead and in pieces. If it wasn’t shot in black and white, perhaps the tint of rotten flesh and old, clotted blood would turn his meticulously poised still-life and portraiture into straight horror. Just like this, there’s a true morbid beauty to it, provided it’s to your taste. Ooh, grapes!

Sebastião Salgado



Brazil-born documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado’s project Genesis represents human communities unchanged by time, communities across the globe that stayed closer to nature and true to their ancestors’ ways of survival. His signature black and white style is sleek, full of detail, and precise soft focus, adding an almost too perfect, conflicting sheen. His photos sure are pretty to look at though.

Jerry Uelsmann



American photographer Jerry Uelsmann is a pioneer of the photo-montage. That’s all before Photoshop! Female nudes melding into the Earth, eyes puckering out of walls, houses sprouting trunks and roots — he did it completely analog, combining negatives in the darkroom. His skill is untouchable, but his themes are very accessible. All those gradients of gray must be nifty for blending. Ah, the Fistface. Classic!

Sally Mann



Shooting in black and white really helps to distinguish Sally Mann’s compelling, socially-risque body of work/screwed-up family album. Of course, that’s not the only element of her skill, vision, and technique that affects the outcome, but it almost feels as if vintage grayscale adds a necessary level of distance between the image and the subject. Like right there.

Scot Sothern



Black and white scheme adds a touch of cinema to Scot Sothern’s Lowlife series, consisting of portraits of prostitutes, commissioned modeling work in its basest sense. You need that artifice of cinema. You need that flattening element, the absorption of each “life” into an even, flat monochromatic image that is part of a series, not as a document of one downtrodden individual’s misfortune but a cycle of one photographer’s adventures. Otherwise, you might start to feel a little bad.

Mitch Dobrowner



Mitch Dobrowner is a wild one. Together with renowned storm-chaser Roger Hill, he road around Tornado Alley in the Great Plains of the United States and chased down the monstrous, furious wind giants. The black and white allows us to admire the contours, the intensity, scale, and movement of the clouds, but imagining the weather chaos that surrounded him during these deliberate moments is frightening.


10 Contemporary Photographers Who Shoot in Black and White | Flavorwire