Floating above the photographer Joseph Szabo's beach scenes is the figure of the lifeguard, on a high perch, upright and vigilant amid the languid bodies and umbrellas below.
A new animated short film made from Ballen's work captures the specters of life and death floating inside the photographer's mind.
So it's heartening to read Harry Page's book, It just came floating by: A Fleet Street photographer's story.* Disclosure first: I hired Harry when I was Daily Mirror editor.
In the series Sea, whether it's a sea horse gently tending to its offspring or a North Pacific Giant Octopus floating in imposing grace, American photographer Mark Laita manages to portray the exotic creatures of the oceans as artistic, aesthetic still lives, yielding a dynamic interplay of image and aesthetic.
Mr. Sharps's old red barge is now the Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge, a nonprofit organization that draws children from local schools, for whom the barge becomes a floating classroom; boat enthusiasts; and photographers and artists captivated by the barge and the gritty old warehouses that surround it.
And an endless stream of imagery floating across my screen from photographers across the globe on Instagram and Twitter and Flickr provides me with constant stimulation and inspiration.
According to the photographer, a calf was floating alongside the mother whale at the time.
He's an aerial photographer who floats over the landscape in paragliders and geoplanes, as he did last year when an wicked winter freeze wreaked havoc on roads, airports railways and ports.
The photographer related these facts to the rescuer who found him six weeks later floating in a canoe, starving and half-naked; the other tales he told were even more unfathomable.
Bereaved folk would sit for their portraits, and through a double exposure or some similarly simple process the photographer would create a second, semi-transparent image of a second figure, usually floating in the background.
