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The FADER opens its rich 15-year photo archive in partnership with VSCO.

For over forty years, Arlene Gottfried has photographed the people she meets in her journeys around New York City, revealing its diversity and heart through her extraordinary images. The very personal moments she captures call to mind Diane Arbus and Viviane Maier. The roots of her work, which includes assignments for The New York Times Magazine and Life Magazine, lie in her love of wandering, and exemplify the benefits of this deceptively simple practice: “My mother used to say ‘Arlene–…

A lot of old photos have a textured appearance. Some are so bad they look like they were printed on a heavy watercolor paper, which is a very artsy effect, I'm sure, just not to everyone's taste! Texture can be corrected, especially if it isn't too terribly deep, and here's a super easy way to do it!

There's an iconic photograph of physicist extraordinaire Albert Einstein sitting on a rock dressed in shorts and open toed sandals, looking a bit like the original hipster.This image has sparked the imagination of science nerds and Einstein fans for decades, and is often used in a "scientists have fun too" kinda way, but what's the real story behind this photo?Turns out this is a snapshot of Albert at the beach wouldn't have happened without this guy:His name is David Rothman, and he owned…

New images taken in the last couples of winters for my endless serie "Mare".“Mare” is an ongoing project, which I started in 2006. To some extent, the sea has been my guide throughout life and I think of the ocean as both an example to learn by and a so…

Renowned photographers Danny Lyons and Marc St. Gil captured some of the most provocative...

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