As he travels the highways of America, courthouselover stops in every county and parish along the way to snap
a photo of its courthouse. "From the Prairie-style courthouses in the Dakotas to the antebellum beauties of Alabama, and from the Romanesque masterpieces of Central Texas and Indiana to the Mission style structures of New Mexico, they are all national treasures."
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posted by SpringAquifer
on Apr 17, 2011 -
33 comments
“The quality of licensed imagery is virtually indistinguishable now from the quality of images they might commission,” Mr. Klein said. Yet “the price point that the client, or customer, is charged is a fraction of the price point which they would pay for a professional image.”
The NYT on
the demise of news photography in the age of the long tail.
posted by sagwalla
on Mar 31, 2010 -
38 comments
"
I photograph people who skirt the edges of things; people whose connection to the broader flow is murky or obscured. Mistaken as more, less or different than they are; they aren’t really seen and don’t really
belong. That’s everyone sometimes; but
some more often. I try to establish a line for a moment. I hope to connect. And I see the most
beautiful and the most
heartbreaking things."
posted by parudox
on May 10, 2009 -
34 comments
Unknown Family. 15 years ago, he found a box of 44 negatives at a garage sale in Aiken, SC, and after wondering about them for a long time, posted them to Flickr in October 2008 in hopes of learning who the family is. There are a few clues, but the search seems to have gone cold.
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posted by Devils Rancher
on Feb 21, 2009 -
58 comments
You are interested in the
unknown... the
mysterious. The
unexplainable. That is why
you are
here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to
you, the full story of
what happened on that
fateful day. We are bringing you all the
evidence, based only on the
secret testimony, of the
miserable souls, who survived this
terrifying ordeal. The
incidents, the
places. My
friend, we cannot keep
this a
secret any longer. Let us
punish the
guilty. Let us
reward the
innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the
shocking facts of a
flickr collection of old snapshots?
posted by gamera
on Feb 14, 2009 -
18 comments
Jørn Utzon, the architect who designed
Sydney Opera House despite the project being plagued by controversy and scandal, died today.
While the rest of us are posting photographs of our drunken friends or the poetry of a plastic bag caught in the wind,
one Flickr user is busy with pithy, insightful, considered and often witty architectural commentary supplementing exquisite architectural photography.
This obituary for Utzon captures the cost of that project to the man himself and to the world.
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posted by carbide
on Nov 29, 2008 -
21 comments
