So much tea, so little concentration.

The always fantastic Milosz Wozaczynski with “The Personal Trainer”  

Wozaczynski is a Polish photographer who primarily works in large format, this piece is shot on 8x10.   I find his work playfully surreal with a much cleaner, less cluttered feel than Joel Peter-Whitkin or Jan Saudek.  I find his work is at its strongest when he has several models to work with as his way of finding a relationship between them is impeccable.  

His blog (in Polish) can be found here: http://wozaczynski.com/blog/

His portfolio site is here: http://www.wozaczynski.com/

Alfred Krupp by Arnold Newman.  

Krupp originally didn’t want to have Newman take his photo as Krupp had used Jewish slave labor during WWII and Newman is a Jew.  Newman argued to take the photo based on his extensive portfolio and Krupp agreed.  Which gave Newman the opportunity to extract a little revenge. 

I had seen this photo in a number of collections but knowing the back story makes it that much more sinister.  Photos never stand on their own, they’re a little piece of time and knowing what happened in that moment makes all the difference. 

Newman talks about the session here:

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0312/video/newman03.mov

Captain Beefheart by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward. RIP Captain.

Antony by Lyle Ashton Harris

Patient photography from Dr. Harvey Cushing’s archive. Dr. Cushing was a professor of surgery and had taken 10,000 photographs of his patients, primarily glass plates.

The Cushing archive is housed at Yale University.

Gender defying performer Rose Wood by Dietmar Busse.

Tennessee Williams by Karl Bissinger.

From the NY Times Obituary of Bissinger.  I really like how the Times handles multimedia, especially photography for their articles.  Its very clean design. 

“The Wife” by Milosz Wozaczynski, a fantastic large format portrait photographer. 

Be sure to check out his blog (in English and Polish)