Life Magazine China Photos Now on Google

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

I’m just starting to look through what they’ve posted, but via Kottke I’ve learned that Life Magazine and Google have teamed up to release many of the magazine’s never-released images. Naturally I started fooling around with China and Beijing pictures, and I found this among many others: an image of the south side of Gulou, the Drum Tower, with what is presently Di’anmen Wai Dajie (地安门外大街) in the foreground. This particular image is irritatingly undated, but is listed as by Dmitri Kessel, many of whose black and white photos are dated 1946.

Below, a similar framing from Oldtasty on Flickr, dated 2004:

UPDATE: Austin at Time has also posted some China images from the collection.

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Photographer Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong ‘Architecture of Density’

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

From Michael Wolf\'s Hong Kong \"Architecture of Density\" series
This picture is stolen from photographer Michael Wolf’s website, where he as lots of great work, including this series on Hong Kong architecture called “Architecture of Density.” The work has been shown at Beijing’s 798 Photo Gallery among many other places. Check out much more of his work at his website.
[via Coudal]

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