Annie Leibovitz

With the thousands of new blogs coming out each day, rarely do we get excited when we discover a new one. However, we were damn near ecstatic when we found out Terry Richardson recently started doing a blog of his own. He updates regularly documenting what he’s currently up to, and as can be expected, his photographs provide the content. Check it out here.

pic and info: Terry’s Diary via Slamxhype

Hew Burney

The culmination of a trilogy that began with Polyester and The Big Valley, Alex Prager’s Week-End began as organically as her other series. Inspired by the high drama of classic movies—which, despite their theatricality, touch upon genuine emotions of alienation, fear, anger, longing, and lust—Prager’s images seem at first to be all exquisite surface. However the girls of this series— named “Barbara”, “Jane”, “Lois” and other such conventional and slightly old-fashioned monikers— conceal pain beneath their lipstick-lined smiles and dead eyes. Prager’s work exudes an underlying sense of the eerie monotony and unease that can permeate beneath the surface of beauty and the promise of happiness. Week-End runs from January 30th through March 6th, 2010 at Hollywood’s M+B.

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Lukas Maeder

Christer Carlsson

Larry Sultan

Polish photographer, Szymon Roginski teamed up with fellow photographer Kasia Korzeniecka to create something which can be described as sculptural photography. For fashion designer, Ania Kuczynska’s 2009 Spring/Summer collection, they took normal images of models in a natural landscape, then printed them and transformed them into a variety of shapes and forms. They put the pictures together and then the photo sculptures were photographed to create the finished product.

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With the end of the year coming to a close, boston.com’s The Big Picture has began compiling the most memorable moments and compelling images of 2009 in a three part series. You can view part one here, and look for parts two and three today and tomorrow.

pic and info: boston.com

David Bellemere