Monumental Fictions #3, Cinema #42
San Francisco Disaster, American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer, shot at the Biograph studios, New York City (May 19, 1906)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Annals of Photography #4
[T]he camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time ; and is why in turn I feel such rage at its misuse: which has so nearly universal a corruption of sight that I know of less than a dozen alive whose eyes I can trust even so much as my own.
James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Book Titles Without Context #5
Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water
H.G. Wells (1939)
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Archaeology of the Poster #8, Medicine #2, The Animal Kingdom #14
The WPA promotes treatment for syphilis through ancient saurians. (c. 1937)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Time #17, History #14, Order of the Universe #27
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “History,” Essays, First Series (1841)
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