Monday, the movers come to pack. Tuesday they take the boxes away. Wednesday, my family boards a plane and leaves New York City on a one-way ticket. It’s been twelve years since I made NYC my home. With a three-year-old boy and a girl on the way in June, we felt it was time to [...]
The home of Michael David Murphy, writer of photography blog 2point8, was recently broken into and all of his photography equipment was stolen. Insurance is not being helpful, so if you’re interested, there’s an online fundraiser to at least partially make up for his loss.
I’ve added a few new blogs to the blogroll. New to me, at least.
Colin Pantall – infrequent, long and detailed posts. Check out his profile of Li Zhensheng
Hipshots – frequent, insightful posts. Good for Londoners. Unfortunately my London trips are at an end for a while.
Words on Photography – Tom Leininger uncovers a lot of [...]
Flak Photo’s Andy Adams pointed me to another set of archival photos that have been made available through Flickr. The Wisconsin Historical Society has posted a collection of photographs used in the bizarro 1973 book Wisconsin Death Trip. Each image has a detailed description and a long list of keyword tags. It’s clear the Flickr [...]
Hot on the heels of the news that the Library of Congress is uploading images to Flickr, I ran across an article in the LA Times about newly discovered photographs of the 1865 Lincoln inauguration. I assumed the news would be about how someone ran across some old prints in an attic, but it turns [...]
The Library of Congress has started uploading a portion of its most popular collections to Flickr. There are about 3000 images uploaded so far under a new copyright license devised with Flickr for institutions. This seems like a much better approach than the clunky PhotoMuse being developed (slowly) by ICP and the George Eastman House [...]
