Glowing female silhouettes in photographs by Christopher Bucklow

Why did an Italian designer provocateur create a chair in the shape of a female body, and Why did he advocate "female thinking"

The armchair in the shape of a woman's body, created by Italian designer Gaetano Pesce, has been reproduced and copied hundreds of times, without thinking about the meaning of the designer himself. Brawler and provocateur, Pesce always knew how to tell sad stories in the most extravagant way, declared that "masculine thinking" is unacceptable in modern design, and architecture should be pleasant … to touch

Shawn Kuruneru's glowing silhouettes

It has been proven more than once that a simple ballpoint pen in the hands of a talented artist works wonders. Juan Francisco Casas draws portraits with a ballpoint pen that cannot be distinguished from photographs, Elena James creates ornamental patterns that resemble embroidery, and Anna Emilia Laitinen - heavenly smoky landscapes. Canadian illustrator Shawn Kuruneru draws pictures with a luminous effect using a black ballpoint pen

The most famous photographs and their authors in Tim Montoni's project "Behind Photographs"

Among the many pictures taken in the history of photojournalism, there are especially important ones that have gained worldwide fame, have become symbols of an event. Most people are familiar with the portrait of a green-eyed Afghan girl, or the picture of Vietnamese children fleeing a napalm-burned village. But who took these photos? What do the people who participated in these events look like and captured them on film? This question was once asked by Tim Mantoani, and his research was revamped

I can see right through. A series of unusual photographs of Beijing through the silhouettes on the window

Some masters and lovers of photography argue that you need to hunt for a good shot for a long time, and sometimes even follow it to distant lands, in the snows of Antarctica, under the hot African sun, in the Amazon forests or in the Alpine mountains. In some ways they are right, and indeed, every week we admire the magical photographs from National Geographic, taken in different parts of the world. But talented photographer Jasper James, based in China, behind his phenomenal shots

Silhouettes at sunset: contrasting photographs of T.J. Scott

The episodes in which the heroes retreat towards the setting sun have long become a cinematic cliché. The blatant beauty of such shots played a cruel joke on them, because one cannot mindlessly replicate other people's, even if successful, finds. Aspiring photographer T.J. Scott (and, by the way, an experienced director and screenwriter), keeping this in mind, tries to bypass the swamp of clichés in which young and promising people so often get stuck. Whether the author managed to breathe life into the eternal silhouettes at sunset, judge for yourself