I come from 2D, and it's a pleasure to see the creativity & invention of this forum! I'm sorry I'm here sporadically, as I don't get to comment as these go up. But I love what everyone's done!

Thought you might enjoy some older masters' take on patterns etc. Many of these are classics...

(Be sure to double-click: These can be notoriously small.)

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Margaret Bourke-White

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/picturing-the-century-photos/images/flag-making.jpg

http://threadforthought.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Margaret-Bourke-White-Gary-IN-female-welders-in-overalls-WWII-1942.jpeg

 

Jack Delano

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Chicago_Union_Station_fsa.8d24901u.jpg

 

Andreas Feininger

http://architektura.muratorplus.pl/zdjecia/BrooklynBridgeNightNY1945_96dpi.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13964815@N00/4685248607/sizes/l/in/photostream/

 

Berenice Abbot

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/3109783153_07e7ea4670_o.jpg

 

Walker Evans

http://20prospect.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/bethlehem-grave-and-mill.jpg

http://www.printcollection.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/8c52874u334.sm__0.jpg

 

Edward Weston

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tVPRSLixXfo/TK7yYGRYQHI/AAAAAAAACl0/-hMUC6QWH3s/s1600/edward+weston+ARTICHOKE_1930_28V.jpg

http://www.dailyartfixx.com/wp-content/gallery/edward-weston/cabbage-leaf-edward-weston-1931.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VDvPKFlYKJQ/SdZ8xIT_h3I/AAAAAAAAA0g/9NIPu23QRWk/s1600-h/weston+4e650227.jpg

 

Andreas Gursky (huge originals)

http://bkvaluemeal.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gursky.jpg

http://www.makeitpersonal.eu/communities/5/000/001/105/425/images/545055.jpg

http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/04/03/GurskyAndreasCopan.jpg

 

Sebastiao Salgado (migrations, refugees, etc)

http://i005.radikal.ru/0809/9e/a8ab24dceb73.jpg

http://eglalili.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/salgado-vale-do-amanherbrazil.jpg

http://megancarroll.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/salgado-rwandan-refugee-camp-in-benako-tanzania-1994.jpg

http://edicion4.com.ar/e4blog/ImagenesBlog/2009/04/rferrari-files-wp-com-duelo-salgado.jpg

 

(Full size, the last one's filled w/ patterns of light & dark..)