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Seaton Delaval – after the fire

June 29, 2012August 31, 2012 by Michael Shanks
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add patina and enjoy

May 18, 2012 by Michael Shanks

Out with the dogs this morning, circa 1876. Ironic media inversion – add patina and enjoy as the past becomes the present. More play with the iPhone app Camera Awesome.

Posted in actuality, archaeological sensibility, contemporary past, digital media, materialities, media archaeology, photography Tagged aura, materialities Leave a comment

move over Instagram – here comes the past

May 13, 2012May 18, 2012 by Michael Shanks

Camera Awesome for the iPhone – playing with the filters – so many of which simulate analogue film – capturing what becomes of what was – materialities, quiddities Café Scheltema, Amsterdam – [Link]

Posted in "what becomes of what was", archaeological imagination, archaeological sensibility, cityscapes, materialities, photography, quiddity Tagged Amsterdam, materialities Leave a comment

pictorialist quiddity?

March 9, 2012May 3, 2012 by Michael Shanks

iPhone, Smugmug app, and seven year old Polaroid 600

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Hindås – haecceity

February 25, 2012February 26, 2025 by Michael Shanks

First signs of spring as the snow melts – near Hindås, Göteborg, Sweden – more experiments in landscape photography … [Link] [Link] Haecceity – qualities of “thisness” or “hereness” (my definition).

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Boonville, California

December 28, 2011May 3, 2012 by Michael Shanks

I have been photographing these old apple trees for over ten years now. Relics of an outdated rural economy. Location – Mountain View Road, Boonville, Anderson Valley, northern California. The valley is now increasingly dominated by vineyards.

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