Tag Archive for 'Photos'

American Ruins in 3D

American Ruins in 3D! That sounds almost like a scene from THE AMERICAN BACKROOM… or rather like a photo project by Matt Bergstrom. He’s creating three View-Master Sets of abandoned buildings in decay.

“American Ruins” is a three-dimensional, photographic series exploring unusual, abandoned buildings — like a candy factory! — to be viewed on an old-fashioned View-Master. Both an exploration of architectural history and a fun throwback to childhood, backers will receive their very own View-Master viewer and a complete set of reels!

Matt needs a little financial support to get things started so he launched his project on Kickstarter: American Ruins in 3D! How cool is that. Definitely worth our support. Click the image below to check it out:


Post Depression-Era America in Color

Wow! The Denver Post put together an amazing set of color photographs taken between 1939 and 1943 in post-depression era America. Some of the only color pictures that take a close look at the effect of the Great Depression on rural America. Color photos from times long ago are a treat anyway, but these ones are even more special. They’ve been taken from the archives of the Library of Congress, in particular from the color set of the 1930s to 1940s. Head on over to flickr to browse through them for yourself, but be warned, it’s a whopping 1,615 photos in this set alone.


Photo series: The US Flag in everyday America

Nice series of pictures by photographer Seth Butler, in which he documents the use (or misuse) of “the ubiquitous, evocative and complex symbol of America’s self-image”, the Stars & Stripes, in everyday America: Tattered: Investigation of an American icon


Diorama USA

We’ve been mentioning it before, but haven’t shown anything from our little tilt shift miniature faking video shoot we did during our research trip last fall. At least so far! Finally found the time to continue working on it and it will go online before the end of the month. That’s a promise. And here’s a little tease. Enjoy!


Keith Davis Young’s 35mm

Keith Davis Young is a young designer and photographer from Austin, TX, and I just finished clicking through his flickr set bearing the rather inconspicous title 35mm. I had starry eyes. He captured a fantastic set of impressions and fragments of daily life. RVs, parking lots, diners and restaurants, people, furniture, all kinds of moods. Go take a look!


Jack Ambridge’s Little Lands

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Although Jack Ambrigde’s photos were shot in Great Britain rather than the US, we are still going to post ‘em here. Let’s just say for inspirational reasons, since we will also utilize tilt shift photography – which is responsible for the awesome miniature effect in Ambridge’s pictures – during the shooting of THE AMERICAN BACKROOM. Keep up the amazing work, Jack! View more in his Behance portfolio…

BTW, we are currently finishing up a little tilt shift test video we shot during our research trip. It will probably go online within the next ten days! Check back soon or join our mailing list so we can keep you posted.


Photo series: Slab City & Salton Sea

Claire Martin‘s portfolio offers a set of amazing pictures of people living in Slab City (Link to Wikipedia), a community of campers and snow birds in the Colorado Desert, southeastern California.

And don’t miss her photo set about the Salton Sea, Californias largest lake, not very far from Slab City.

Right there, on the fringes of Slab City, you will also find Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain that we visited during our research trip last fall. Check out these pictures wie took.


New Pictures From Research

We’ve just added new pictures from rainy Michigan and Ohio to the AMERICAN BACKROOM Flickr photostream. All pictures were shot during our research trip last fall. Go check ‘em out. And don’t forget to leave a comment ;)


Oregon’s Landscape

English version coming soon


New Photos from our America trip on Flickr

The Berlin Film Festival “Berlinale” draws to a close and the hustle and bustle of the European Film Market is already gone… and we found time again to upload a bit of new content from our research trip last fall: Head on over to the American Backroom Flickr-Stream to catch a couple new pictures from South Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan. There are more to come soon – we are far from finished exploiting all the photos we took during our trip.