Tag Archives: Photography

2013: 1989

Posted on July 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger create minuature versions of scenes from iconic photographs using scale models and other materials. The image above, for example—which might at first seem to be Charlie Cole’s famous picture of the “tank man” from the … Continue reading →

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1992: Outpost

Posted on July 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Benjamin Halpern: East oblique of missile site control building, with better view of exhaust (the taller columns) and intake shafts – Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building, Northeast of Tactical Road; southeast of Tactical Road South, Nekoma, Cavalier … Continue reading →

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1902: Voulangis

Posted on July 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Edward J. Steichen: Voulangis (1900-1902)

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1986: Blast Furnace

Posted on July 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Blast Furnace: Völklingen, Saar, Germany (1986; printed 1989)

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1920: Helen Keller Holding a Magnolia

Posted on July 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

When Helen Keller announced that she had become a socialist, “newspaper columnists who had praised her courage and intelligence before…now called attention to her disabilities.” The editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, for example, opined that her “mistakes sprung out of … Continue reading →

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1943: Nurse Hamaguchi

Posted on July 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Ansel Adams: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi (1943) From Adams’s photographs of Japanese-American internment at Manzanar (here).

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1917: Boeing Factory

Posted on July 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

Boeing seamstresses sewing fabric to the wing of a Model C seaplane in the company’s first factory, 1917. (source)

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1916: Don’t Be A Scab

Posted on July 16, 2017 by corvusfugit

I’d seen this beautiful photograph before, but hadn’t realized it existed in such high definition. I retouched it a little (the original is here, at the Library of Congress) and drew out some of the details: The date for the … Continue reading →

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2017: The Sky

Posted on July 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

New additions to the gallery.

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1934: Striker

Posted on July 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Virginia Matthews, secretary of the Philadelphia branch of the United Textile Workers of America (1934) (source)

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