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J.M. Johnson, 1910 (via Shorpy.com)

Sorry, you cannot hire these men for your lookbook. However, you will find a treasure trove of vintage men’s fashion. And some 19th-century beefcake.

Michele Collet has a piece about Heinz Maier’s water-splash images on Environmental Graffiti

Inspiration can be found in a bottle, apparently. Crowd-sourced online magazine Environmental Graffiti has beautiful collection of images by Heinz Maier of water droplets shot at high speeds. Writer Michele Collet narrates the images—and gave the piece its inspired headline, “20 Incredible Snapshots of Water Splashes That Look Like Hats.”

Girl, you look hot. Wired’s story includes images of popstar Fergie retouched to various degrees. The colors indicate “intensity of alteration.”

In the future, you can request your fashion magazines sans Photoshop. Nah, not really. But a team of researchers at Dartmouth University has developed a computer model that can determine how much a photo has been altered and retouched.

Yowsa. Your secrets are no longer safe in the art department.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better for this year’s Fashion’s Night Out… the Lomography Gallery Store LA is teaming up with style staple Space 15 Twenty and Foam Magazine to celebrate fun clothes, L.A.’s unique style and how to shoot street fashion.

The Lomography store is offering a free workshop using the quirky cameras to capture L.A. street style.

Tony Ward, who has been dubbed "male icon of the century" by Paris Vogue, is easily the most photographed male model in the world. For the past three decades, the 47-year-old classically handsome Californian has brought a rugged, All-American appeal to campaigns for Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Hugo Boss and virtually every design house with an ampersand in its name, including D&G and H&M.

A Felicia Webb photo taken back stage at the Paul Smith fashon show in London in 2002

What would fashion be without the photographers to chronicle the walk down the runway for the photo shoots?

For those who appreciate a good photographer behind the lens, this exhibit is for you.

Backstage at the Paul Smith Women fashion show, London 09/13/2002, photo courtesy of Felicia Webb

What is beauty and how is it defined in modern culture? That is what The Annenberg Space for Photography will attempt to answer in it’s next exhibition. “Beauty Culture” is a photographic exploration of feminine beauty and how it has evolved through the 20th and 21st centuries.

"Everything Went Black" photos courtesy of COMUNE/Jimmy Fontaine

Get ready for COMUNE's next über-cool event. The street-wise, creative culture brand will present a photo exhibition by photographer Jimmy Fontaine. "Everything Went Black" is a series of portraits and work which document fashion, music and skateboarding culture. The raw photographs give an inside look into contemporary life as part of COMUNE's Drop City creative artist platform.

The cover of "Fräulein" by photographer Ellen von Unwerth

In lingerie speak, Valentine’s Day is like Christmas for intimates aficionados poised to be unwrapped. Just in time for the romantic holiday in February, Taschen will release the art edition of “Fräulein,” a meaty 482-page picture tome by model-turned-photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who muses over the female form barely covered in sheer skivvies and sometimes not at all.