Is French Photographer Guy Bourdin The Greatest Photographer Of All Time?

YUP.

The Photobomb Fish

Pretty Much Why Photography Was Invented

Naked Women With Big Cats

10 Great Boring Things

1. Moby Dick (1851)



2. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)



3. The Byzantine Empire (ca. 324 - 1453 C.E.)

4. Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony (1904)



5. The Paintings of Mark Rothko

6. Vanilla



7. Helvetica

8.  Paradise Lost (1667)



9. Antarctica



10. Bread

That'll Do, Planet Earth, That'll Do

Seriously, you guys, the National Geographic Photo Of The Day is the greatest RSS feed you could possibly subscribe to.

We Live in a Diminished Age; Behold the Paraceratherium

The MichaelCeratherium was smaller, but charminingly twee

TMI (with X-Rays!)

Like some sort of renal al-Qaeda, these kidney stones have been hiding, sleeper cell style, planning for their horrible strike and now they are on the move.

This image of the inside of my abdomen shows that there may be as many as four of the little calciferous terrorists hiding in my urinary tract. They are the little round spots visible beneath and to the sides of my tailbone.

Kidney Stone Alert Level is now at SEVERE.

Self Portrait of Jorge Luis Borges, After He Went Blind

A Mirror with a Memory

Errol Morris did a photographic retrospective of the Bush presidency this week, using the photos and insight of several photographers from the Whitehouse Press Pool. Some of them are iconic and already familiar. Some of them are really stunning and revelatory. Check it out. (And don't just look at the pictures - read the damned article).

It IS Hard to Cut Through the Irony

I didn't spot this. Someone on Buzzfeed did. I just like it. I just like irony. And photos.