A Photographer Transforms California Landscapes Into Abstract Dreamscapes

Inspired by Richard Mosse’s groundbreaking infrared documentary collection, Infra Realism by Kate Ballis features powerfully alluring photographs that transform familiar southern California archetypes — modernist architecture, pools, vintage cars and desert scenes — to otherworldly candy-colored dreamscapes.

Shot with a specially constructed full-spectrum mirrorless camera using numerous infrared filters, the Melbourne-based photographer reimagines legendary Palm Springs places, like the Ace Hotel & Swim Club, the Palm Springs Tennis Club and the Parker Hotel, as a surreal world where succulents and palm trees are depicted in vibrant colors of blue, sky are a vibrant magenta, and swimming pools blood red. The contrasting, high-spirited colors illuminate the textures of the lush foliage which once blended into the desert landscape.

The hyper-saturated images subvert the desert city’s previously muted landscape into strangely alluring, joyously alive technicolor fantasias, making an unsettling ambiguity, an otherworldliness where we question reality and the world around us. Making the unseen, seen, Ballis’s infrared photos offer a glimpse into the unknown, yet uninhabited distant planet or parallel universe, at once strange and familiar.

H/T creativeboom

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A Russian Artist Reproduces Botticelli’s Venus As An Porcelain Doll

Inspired by Botticelli’s Venus, Russian artist Anya Kozlova recreated the timeless beauty as an intricate porcelain doll.

And to complete the effect, Kozlova painted a fitting background to shoot against the doll, perfectly recreating the Birth of Venus painting.

Kozlova specializes in such dolls that are elaborate. Each one has human ball joints and hand-carved and hand-painted details, making them look highly realistic. You can follow Kozlova’s work here for more behind-the-scenes shots of her job. It’s a fascinating procedure.

These Photos Show The Entire 1979 Victoria’s Secret Catalog

Founded by Roy Raymond, along with his wife Gaye, at San Francisco, California, on June 12, 1977, Victoria’s Secret is an American designer, manufacturer, and marketer of women’s high heeled lingerie, womenswear, and beauty products. It’s the largest American merchant of women’s lingerie.

Let’s have a peek at the entire 1979 Victoria’s Secret catalog, back when skin seemed like skin, not a top performance grade polyvinyl chloride.

h/t: vintag.es