Ernst Haeckel :: Mycetozoa, from Kunstformen der Natur / Artforms of Nature, 1904

Arcyria punicea; Trichia varia; Physarum plumbeum; Badhamia panicea; Didymium nigripes; Didymium farinaceum; Lepidoderma tigrinum; Trichia fragilis; Arcyria serpula; Dictydium cernuum; Cribraria aurantiaca; Cribraria intricata; Cribraria pyriformis; Trichia verrucosa; Arcyria cinerea; Stemonitis fusca; Physarum didermoides; Arcyria incarnata; Trichia botrytis; Arcyria adnata

Jonas Bendiksen

“The girl playing alone beneath wedding lights in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum is not the closest or rawest image I’ve taken. But it is somehow a subtly tender and magical moment, where I feel like I drift into this little girl’s frame of mind for a second. Whenever I feel, I somehow am there with that person, and I feel something that connects me. That is what I define as an intimate image, more than if the picture is really up close or in your face.”

 

Harry Gruyaert's Mali

Harry Gruyaert :: The Niger river at Mopti, Mali, 1988

David Alan Harvey

“Intimacy can manifest itself in a photograph literally, showing actual intimacy between people, or be implied in the image through an act of deep internalization. A bit more mysterious... A tease maybe?

For years as a photojournalist my job was to be didactic, but now my tack has changed: I still believe in bearing witness, yet I am way more inclined to leave my audience with unanswered questions. Why does everything need to be resolved? Isn’t there great pleasure in imagining what might be happening?

I am too involved, too much a part of the story, for my work to still be considered photojournalism. Yet perhaps the new work may still fall into some interpretations of documentary. I don’t care. I’m simply on a river that’s taking me wherever it goes.”— David Alan Harvey [from Magnun Photos]

Hiroji Kubota

“Every morning, courageous swimmers jump in the river for a minute or two. No surprise that their skin turns red immediately. But the onlookers - including this photographer with a winterized Leica - felt even colder, in sympathy.”—  Hiroji Kubota

Harry Gruyaert :: Pisa, 1983

“1983 was the beginning of a new love. Our first trip together was to Tuscany, Italy, in August. I photographed this young couple in Pisa. They looked as if they were from an Italian Renaissance painting. They were the sensual reflection of what was going on in my own life.” Harry Gruyaert

Vladimir Zimakov :: Possession, 2009

Vladimir Zimakov :: Possession, 2009

Vladimir Zimakov's illustration

Vladimir Zimakov :: Illustration for Edgar Allen Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum, 2010

Vladimir Zimakov

Vladimir Zimakov :: Illustration for Nikolai Gogol's The Diary of a Madman, 2005

Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter :: Man with Straw Hat, 1955

Alessandra Sanguinetti

Alessandra Sanguinetti :: The Madonna, from 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams', Buenos Aires, 2001

Burt Glinn

Burt Glinn :: Jeep full of Daughters of Charity carrying food and medicine from their hospital to their parishioners, St. Louis, Missouri, 1964

Hiroji Kubota

Hiroji Kubota :: Cormorant fishing on the Li River,Guilin,China, 1979

Frédéric Gable :: Désenjambée

Frédéric Gable :: Désenjambée

Harry Gruyaert's Launderette, 1988

Harry Gruyaert :: Launderette, Antwerpen, Belgium, 1988

Inge Morath, 1954

Inge Morath :: Street corner at World's End, London, 1954

Eli Reed's photography

Eli Reed :: Portrait of a yoga instructor with actor Leon Robinson, 2015

Bieke Depoorter :: Istanbul, Turkey, 2015

Bieke Depoorter :: Istanbul, Turkey, 2015

Nikos Economopoulos :: Trinidad, Cuba, 2015

Nikos Economopoulos :: Trinidad, Cuba, 2015

Steve McCurry's Shaolin monks

Steve McCurry :: Shaolin monks training, Zhengzou, China, 2004

Wilma Hurskainen :: Waves, 2012

Wilma Hurskainen :: Waves, 2012

Martin Parr, from Life's a Beach exhibition

Martin Parr :: Belgium, Knokke, 2001 from Life's a Beach exhibition

Guy Bourdin / Dangerous Fashion

Guy Bourdin :: Charles Jourdan advertisement, 1979

Gueorgui Pinkhassov :: Balcony of a hotel, 1993

Gueorgui Pinkhassov Balcony of a hotel, Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain, 1993

Ernst Haas :: New Orleans, USA, 1960

Jonas Bendiksen :: Bathers at the BlackSea, Georgia, 2005

Jonas Bendiksen :: Both locals & Russian tourists are drawn to the warm waters of the BlackSea, Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia, 2005

Harry Gruyaert :: In the subway, Tokyo, Japan, 1996

Christopher Anderson :: Marion in bed. Brooklyn, NYC, 2009

Christopher Anderson :: Marion in bed. Brooklyn, NYC, 2009

Otto Piene :: Black is beautiful, 2014

Otto Piene :: Black is beautiful, 2014

Otto Piene :: Circus Star, 1981

Otto Piene :: Circus Star, 1981

Otto Piene :: Flower flies, 1978

Otto Piene :: Flower flies, 1978

Otto Piene :: Rococo Star, 1981

Otto Piene :: Rococo Star, 1981

Otto Piene :: Kokarde am Himmel cockade in the sky, 2013

Otto Piene :: Kokarde am Himmel cockade in the sky, 2013

Patrick Zachmann

Patrick Zachmann :: Vendor sitting by the Pan-American Highway in the Atacama Desert, Chile, 2002

Pete Turner

Pete Turner :: Road Song, 1967

Pete Turner : Boat Wake, 1966

Pete Turner

Pete Turner :: Times Square, 1958

Pete Turner :: The Quiet American, 1958

Gottfrried Helnwein: 'Murmur of the Innocents', detail, 2009

Gottfried Helnwein: 'Murmur of the Innocents', 2009

Saul Steinberg :: Untitled (Nine Postcard Landscapes with Figures). Watercolor, colored pencil, rubber stamps and collage on paper, 1970's

“There is something noble and reassuring about repetition. What I see is that by putting a little pink on the horizon, and adding a little yellow that fades into blue, I get a sunset (or sometimes a dawn). It makes me feel like I’ve mastered the laws of gravity, of drying water, of absorbent paper, and so many other things: I’m a plumber, a colorist, a marvel. Let’s not even talk about when I use oil paint, because the color itself has its own beauty, its own magical, phosphorescent quality.”

—Saul Steinberg, from “Portraits and Landscape"