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12 August 2012

Hay, now

Wright Morris. Haystack, 1947. From the collections at CCP.

12 May 2012

Brady's archives

Mathew Brady's glass negatives, in the studio of his nephew Levin C. Handy. More here.

01 April 2012

BA&KA by LF


Lee Friedlander. Robert and Kerstin Adams, 2002.

29 March 2012

Walker & Lee, 1963


Walker Evans and Lee Friedlander, 1963.

More from the Walker Evans Archive at the Met. Pictured here, Evans at 60, Friedlander at 28.

08 September 2011

Friedlander, New 35


Lee Friedlander. San Francisco. 2009.

Still got it! A recent picture by Friedlander, swapping out the Superwide for the Leica.

30 August 2011

Nathaniel Stebbins - Yacht Portraits


Nathaniel Stebbins. Shamrock. c. 1898.

Nathaniel Stebbins. James W. Parker. c. 1907.

Keep an eye out for a beautiful portfolio of Stebbins's work, Yacht Portraits of the Leading American Yachts. Published by Brentano's in 1889. Printed in photogravure by the Boston Photogravure Company. More photographs in the MIT Museum Collections.

20 July 2011

Alan Lomax


Old Bight. Cat Island, Bahamas. 1935.


Children Playing. Eastonville, Florida. 1935.


Old Bight. Cat Island, Bahamas. 1935.

From the Library of Congress.

15 July 2011

Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute





Frances Benjamin Johnston. Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia. 1899.

More work by Johnston from the Hampton Institute along with thousands of other photographs made in Virginia at the Library of Congress.

29 May 2011

Cotton Sharecropper Families







Photographs of Cotton Sharecropper Families. An album of 107 silver prints from Walker Evans's work with James Agee in Alabama. At the Library of Congress.

02 April 2011

Good Barns




David Plowden. Round Barn. 1965.
David Plowden. Ventilator, Galen Zeger's Barn. 2002.
David Plowden. Gabrel Roof Barn. 1965.

Images from the David Plowden archive at the Beinecke Library.

30 March 2011

24 March 2011

Walker Evans - Fredericksburg


Walker Evans. Frame Houses. Fredericksburg, Virginia. 1936.

This image was included in Evans's American Photographs, and cropped a bit differently. It was made on Hanover Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia. A few of the houses here are standing today and in fine repair!

Big Fan


Eric Marth. Fredericksburg, Virginia. 2008.

28 January 2011

Wrecks





Photographs purchased on eBay.