Photographs taken after the death of a child were popular in the mid nineteenth century. Daguerreotype, 1850s, eastern USA.
ruins and remains
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.)
“Heritage USA”
Abram (Stern) has put me on to the recent Boing Boing link to photos of the rotting Jesusland built by Jim Bakker. Illicitohio.com spcializes in urban exploration in and around Ohio, photographing abandoned buildings and structures. They have a gallery devoted to “Heritage USA” and the PTL Club – 2000 acres of a Christian evangelist…
Tucson
Davis Monthan Airforce Base – the boneyard of mothballed aircraft.
Chillingham – UK borders
The tomb of Sir Ralph Grey. In the south transept of St John’s church, Chillingham, Northumberland.
The photographs of Edward Burtynsky and the animated museum
The touring exhibition of the wonderful photographs of Edward Burtynsky reaches the Cantor Arts Center today and runs till September 18. Nickel tailings #30 – Sudbury, Ontario Like Gursky, [Link] Burtynsky works in large format – the pictures are up to 5 feet across. His subjects are envrionmental impacts. Great holes in the ground like…