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i'll go first.
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Ooo, Southworth & Hawes. I've had a crush on this photo, which is of Southworth, since I first saw it: It fascinates me as a moment in which the portrait studio photographers stepped out of their (admittedly young) genre and into an area that helped found some of what I do -- the fine-art non-self-portrait. Most Commons photographs have a very different kind of historical significance than that.
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i love how "meta" this image is:
Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff documented the institution's physical buildings and work spaces, including curators' offices, new museum buildings, exhibition installations, and the furniture used to store objects.
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@striatic: I thought that was some sort of blood test slide! I had to open the photo, stare at it, read the captions, stare at it again, and finally it hit me I was looking at a book/document case! The floor tiles look like development errors haha! Very nice.
@Lu, that's a gorgeous portrait.
I've got some photos marked as favorites, but they certainly don't have the same impact.
If I had to choose one right now it would be the original Ferris Wheel. I'm sure there's plenty more shots of it out there, though, unlike the three unique photos above.
In my fantasy world, National Treasure 3 starts out with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Present day, Ben Gates is on the trail of a society of bridge-building engineers who stumbled on some secrets while building the world's highest rail line in Peru. He finds hints in the seemingly innocent poems and editorials of Chicago newsmen Frank Carson and Dick Little. He digs through the Field Museum's photograph collection to find subarctic photos by Stanley Field and the son of funder Frederick Rawson (who found out about it all from another Association of Commerce member who was born in Peru, son of one of the railroad builders). This leads Ben to the amazing discovery that Atlantis was moved from the Mediterranean to the Bermuda Triangle by the Vikings during their forrays to Constantinople.
My story kind of falls apart at the end, but I'm sure it all starts with a ride on the Ferris Wheel.
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this one, i really wish there was some more information about. it's just so .. curious.
Title: Curious Photo
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Not to threaten to turn this into a history riff thread... but I was drawn to another image of that same ferris wheel when browsing the commons looking for inspiration as I worked on the graphic art for my brother's first album. It's quite a graphically intense image...
Brooklyn Museum
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striatic
That's not really a photograph, doncha know? It's been manipulated. It's not sooc.
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he he Colleen
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My opinion on what makes the Best of the Commons probably changes every day- depending on what mood I'm in, and what I like to look at.
Today I love this:
Although I may come back in an hour and add an iceberg I'm rather fond of...
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I was going to post this:
But then I realized that it is not a "Commons" photograph. Haha.
But anyway, the New York Public Library has quite a collection of absolutely stunning portraiture:
By the way, I notice that institutions that release photographs in small batches of 20 or 30 get more people tagging, commenting, annotating photographs (as it is easier to go through them and not overwhelming). Is this the generally the case or am I way off?
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The second one (Ruth St. Denis in Yosemite) looks like a lot of the really great surrealist photography you see in Flickr (the heavily photoshopped ones). All it is missing is a butterfly and some swirly laces floating about. And blood on her hands.
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You're right Jayel, that was George's advice to us - 20 or 30 at a time.
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Yup. We do a little bigger, only for the sake of workload efficiency (it takes us about the same amount of time to put up 50 as it does 20)
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We release in much larger sets - it takes longer for people to digest them, but it helps our workload internally and keeps the curation of our blended account feed much more balanced. ~shelley
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That is very interesting... Uploading policies. Need to work that into a five questions...
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from the Dutch National Archive. caption:
First World War, Belgium, Air war. A French pilot makes a emergency landing on own terrain after a failed attack on German Zeppelin hangars near Brussels, 1915. The aircraft, a bi-plane, has hit the trees and got stuck. Soldiers climb in the trees.
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As the temperature edges down and the wind howls (no fireworks in Prospect Park for us tonight), I'm drawn to wintery images. Like others, my favorites change from day to day.
A search on "snow" brought up this haunting scene:
Far from my usual haunts -- this one is more like my life in the city:
The frozen pond is perfectly evocative on a quiet, freezing New Year's Eve.
(It was great to see some of our Paris Expo shots as favorites. Thanks!)
Happy New year, everybody,
Deb
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I really enjoyed this shot from the George Eastman House collection:
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that is a great shot, Terry
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I've gotta get me one of those hats!
Today, I love this:
From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
What an amazing shot.
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I am loving this one:
Photographer and Aeronautical Scientist
- from the Smithsonian
Crazy! Oz-like!
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Today I love this:
Jay Street, No. 115, Brooklyn.
May 22, 1936
Three generations of African Americans on stoop of brick home with iron rails on steps.
I think part of why I'm drawn to it is that it reminds me of an amazing production of 'Big White Fog' I saw at the Almeida theatre in London last year.
The people in this photo could be characters in that play.
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I LOVE this - the collision of two worlds - a captured submarine being pulled though the streets by horses.
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