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Photography

Gray Scott

From war to fashion photography. Oh well… If there isn’t room in the world for art and beauty then what are we living for? Gray Scott‘s photographs use subtle Photoshop processing to make his models appear like showroom dummies. He’s also good with colour adjustment and blurring as well, creating some very effective pastiches of photographic styles from earlier decades. Loretta Lux takes a similar approach with her portraits.

(Safari users should be warned that the menus on Gray Scott’s site don’t work properly; I had to use Firefox.)

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The Essex Street Water Gate, London WC2

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He crossed the road and went into the darkness towards the little steps under the archway leading into Essex Street, and I let him go. And that was the last I ever saw of him.

The Diamond Maker (1894) by HG Wells

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Old and New London – Its History, Its People and Its Places (1878).

London’s water gates date from the time before the building of the embankment and the road on the north side of the river, when the tidal wash reached a lot closer to the buildings (and former palaces) that follow The Strand and Fleet Street. The gate in Essex Street dates back to t0 1676, and was used for a time as an emblem by Methuen publishers when they had their premises here.

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A plate from The Romance of London by Alan Ivimey (1931).

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Methuen imprint (1931).

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An etching by Edgar Holloway (1934).

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Methuen imprint (1948).

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The Water Gate as it was on the afternoon of 18th May, 2006.

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Erotic flicks

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From Homo Sum by Konrad Helbig.

For once, a decent and restrained use of Flash. The books of erotic photography for sale from www.6×6.com can be browsed via simple animations that turn the pages of the book. A gimmick but it makes a change from clicking through another load of gallery thumbnails. Their site is divided into Blue, for pictures of men, and Pink for pictures of women. Some nice desktop downloads as well.