Daguerreotype c 1850. Oblique view. See the project Ghosts in the machine.
media archaeology
ghosts in the mirror 1
Spent a family Thanksgiving up in Boonville, Anderson Valley with Sam and Angela Schillace. As ever, the locality is, for me, one of few fragile traces of somewhat indeterminate and agricultural pasts, juxtaposed with major investment in business futures. An old (cultivated) apple tree in the nearby field, railway carriages in the town converted to…
Big Sur CA
One of those staged viewpoints. We are little different from the days of the Claude Glass – a tinted convex mirror through which the tourist or artist of the picturesque and sublime could see a composed and painterly image. Now we have the wide angle lens, saturated color (after Fuji Velvia), and the LCD of…
book spine 1690
potsherd
Potsherd found in the ruins of the Stanford family mansion destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.
Found photos
Fascinating website of photographs found undeveloped in old cameras – [Link – westfordcomp.com] Camera c 1947. (Thanks again to Sam (Schillace) for this link.)