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Department of Records - Photo Gallery

Department of Records - Photo Gallery
The New York City Department of Records and Information Services announced the addition of 30,000 photographs to its on-line gallery. Some of the more unusual images from this series depict political groups monitored by the New York City Police Department's "Alien Squad." These photos range from Communist Party rallies in Madison Square Garden to the Nazi summer retreat in Yaphank, Long Island run by the German American Bund. See all the Alien Squad photos. These are among more than 2,000 photographs added from the NYPD departmental files and Emergency Services Unit (ESU), dating from 1928 to 1941. With this new group of photos, the online gallery now totals more than 900,000--the largest collection of historical images of New York City in the world. The Online Gallery provides free and open research access to items digitized from the Municipal Archives' collections, including photographs, maps, motion-pictures and audio recordings. Enter the Online Gallery Related:  Photography

Hidden Light: The Visual Language of an Autistic Photographer | NeuroTribes Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Neurotribes, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Magnuson Park, Seattle, February 10 The playful symmetry of fin-shaped sculptures on grass. Sun bright on ivory petals framed in blue water and sky, or exploding through a lacy armature of branches. Meanwhile Sargent, who is just 20 years old, shines his own hidden light through these haunting images. It turned out to be a lot. Buddha, Flower World, Maltby WA Sargent was born in Tokyo. A few months later, however, Sargent abruptly withdrew into himself and began throwing tantrums that terrified his parents. Karen and Robert's Farm, Forrest's birthday, 2010 Denny and Rebecca tried everything to help their son, from a smorgasbord of psychiatric drugs to homeopathy, hydrotherapy, and blessings from a Tibetan priest. “We were completely heartbroken, but we could no longer keep Forrest here,” Denny says. “Forrest was in hell,” says Denny. Volunteer Park, February 2011 Twin Ponds

University of Edinburgh Image Collections Kyle McDonald The New Nikon D600 HDSLR: Bridging the Gap Between Professional and Enthusiast | BH inDepth Nikon has just announced the D600, their most compact full-frame DSLR, featuring a 24.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, EXPEED 3 image processing system, low-light sensitivity to ISO 25600 and a continuous shooting rate up to 5.5 full-resolution frames per second. In addition to image quality, the D600 also features the ability to share your imagery wirelessly with the optional WU-1b Wireless Mobile Adapter. This camera bridges the gap between professional-level DSLRs and more affordable cropped-sensor DSLRs by integrating a large FX sensor into a much more compact body than other full-frame models, allowing you the convenience of carrying a lighter weight body without sacrificing on quality. FX-Format 24.3 Megapixel CMOS Sensor and EXPEED 3 Image Processor At the heart of this camera lies a large full frame imaging sensor that is powered by a powerful processing system. Intelligent Metering and Focus Systems High Definition Video Recording Design and Compatibility Wireless Compatibility

The artist with the bad camera | Photography With what could accurately be described as the worst camera ever made, Miroslav Tichý (1926 – 2011) would take sneaky, surreptitious shots of women around his hometown of Kyjoy in the Czech Republic, capturing thousands of pictures between the 1960s and 1985 and conducting himself in a way that would most probably arouse police suspicion today. Indeed, Miroslav Tichý was often arrested for photographing unconsenting women at the local pool. He suffered from dementia and was viewed as somewhat of an outsider though his reputation has been reassessed in recent years and his photographs are currently on show as part of the Moscow Photo Biennale at the Multimedia Art Museum until April 1. Tichý's camera was cobbled together using found parts and everyday items such as tin cans, cardboard, bottle caps and rubber bands. Miroslav Tichý with his camera, photo © Roman Buxbaum, 1987

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Topito : top listes et classements - humour, insolite, utile, et découverte ! A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space Jay Mark Johnson. The abstract-seeming images here are not the result of some wacky Photoshopping. Jay Mark Johnson’s photos are actually incredibly precise. The reason they look like this is because he uses a slit camera that emphasizes time over space. Whatever remains still is smeared into stripes, while the motion of crashing waves, cars and a Tai Chi master’s hands are registered moment by moment, as they pass his camera by. Like an EKG showing successive heartbeats, the width of an object corresponds not to distance or size, but the rate of movement. Yes, it’s a confusing concept. This unique look is possible because the fixed-position slit camera registers only a vertical sliver of a scene. If you are still having trouble with this idea, try cutting out a tiny slit of paper and holding it up to your eye. He says he opts for this unusual camera because he wants to hold a mirror to human nature, that expands our view of reality. More Photo Features You May Enjoy

New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal | Art and design Mundane yet mesmeric ... Stephen Shore's photograph of an alley in Presidio, Texas (1975) It is 35 years since the term "new topographics" was coined by William Jenkins, curator of a group show of American landscape photography held at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. The show consisted of 168 rigorously formal, black-and-white prints of streets, warehouses, city centres, industrial sites and suburban houses. New Topographics by Britt Salvesen "What I remember most clearly was that nobody liked it," Frank Gohlke, one of the participating photographers told the LA Times when the exhibition was restaged last year at the LA County Museum of Art. The exhibition's clunky subtitle was "Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", which gave some clue as to the deeper unifying theme. Coolly architectural ... a detail of Hilla Becher's series of Pennsylvania pit head photographs (1974) Jenkins also included American work by Bernd and Hilla Becher in the show.

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Culte du cargo Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Une croix de cérémonie de John Frum sur l'île de Tanna, Nouvelles Hébrides (maintenant Vanuatu), 1967. Naissance dans les îles d'Océanie[modifier | modifier le code] Débarquement de provisions et de matériel sur l'île de Guadalcanal, 7 août 1942. Peter Lawrence a écrit, en 1974, dans son livre intitulé Le Culte du cargo (p. 297-298, éditions Fayard) : « Les indigènes ne pouvaient pas imaginer le système économique qui se cachait derrière la routine bureaucratique et les étalages des magasins, rien ne laissait croire que les Blancs fabriquaient eux-mêmes leurs marchandises. Le mouvement, le mythe, religion ou terme culte du cargo s’est forgé à travers les théories anthropologiques et études sur les civilisations du Pacifique. En Océanie, le culte du cargo est maintenant un mouvement, à la fois de transformations sociales et de résistance, face aux pratiques et aux valeurs des pays industrialisés[4]. Éléments du culte[modifier | modifier le code]

Good Soldier Michals by Martin Filler The photographer Duane Michals, who turns eighty on February 18, pursues a distinctive approach to his medium that seems all the more remarkable today for being so resolutely low-tech. Michals relies only on available natural light, whether he works indoors or out; prefers to shoot in empty found spaces rather than in a studio; and generally favors unmanipulated black-and-white film over digital color—which taken together seems the visual equivalent of producing vinyl LPs in a world of MP3s. Michals pioneered the use of multi-frame series to create cinematic image sequences as brief as two photos or lengthy enough to fill entire books (of which he has produced more than twenty). That narrative practice earned the disdain of ideologues who upheld the primacy of the “subjectless photograph” as advanced from the early 1960s onward by the Museum of Modern Art’s longtime photography curator, the influential John Szarkowski. “…the two parallel universes I inhabited.

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