Freeman’s Sporting Club Spring/Summer 2011 Lookbook

Photographer Tim Barber introduces animated GIFs to an exclusive menswear line

Like the brands they represent, look books run the gamut from those shot on Brooklyn rooftops to full-scale studio productions with renowned fashion photographers. In what may be an industry first, Freeman’s Sporting Club recently enlisted photographer Tim Barber to take a different route, creating a series of animated GIFs to show their Spring/Summer 2011 line. Whether juggling in a Tropical Gossamer Machinist Shirt or …

Screenstagram

Instagram photos beautifully displayed in screensaver form

The Barbarian Group just released their new Instagram-powered screen saver named Screenstagram. It lets you connect your Instragram account to your desktop screensaver and displays your feed or the Instagram popular feed live. The sleek add-on takes advantage of Instagrams API and lets you have continuous access to all of your friends’ fantastic photos, streaming the artistic explorations from life’s daily escapades. Usernames are displayed …

Patrick Tosani

Pictorial mind games in a contemporary French photographer's first retrospective

At first glance Patrick Tosani‘s photographs seem like textbook examples of monolithic, clean and simple photography. But look a little closer and objects like ice cubes, spoons and high-heeled shoes reveal themselves by a trick of perspective and massive proportions, playing with scale and drawing the viewer into a new dimension. Over 200 such clever twists (many of which have never been shown before) comprise …