An American Girl in Italy

Posted on August 18, 2011 by webdev

We learn more — straight from the subject — about Ruth Orkin’s famous 1951 photo.

UPDATE 7/18/17: Seems the link placed above in 2011 is now dead. Here’s an alternative, albeit not in the actual words of the late photographer.

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Zooming in on Coney Island, 1929

Posted on August 12, 2011 by webdev


From the New York Times … go there to zoom in the detail of this panorama from 1929.

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Ivi Reads

Posted on August 11, 2011 by webdev

Another re-discovery from December 1995, when Ivi was 2 years, 11 months old, and having reached the stage of being sufficiently adept at reading that she would no longer tolerate being read to.  (And it was she, just a few years later, who would discover that “happyhogrot” could be formed as an anagram to the term “photography”.)

(scanned from a low-resolution Polaroid)


Variation:

(converted to monochrome)

UPDATE June 2015: Ivi goes on to become a magna cum laude graduate
 with a degree in English.
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Rube Goldberg Meets Photography

Posted on July 27, 2011 by webdev

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The Valedictator

Posted on June 11, 2011 by lawrence hathaway

Ivi Delivers Her Valedictory

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Soupe à l’Oignon

Posted on June 6, 2011 by webdev

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Sun At Last

Posted on June 3, 2011 by webdev

After seemingly interminable rain, this morning the sun broke free. Here is a colleague, Mark, basking …

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Deadline Every Second

Posted on June 2, 2011 by webdev

Here is the trailer for a documentary of Associated Press photojournalists and the challenges they face to meet their deadlines. AP is said to send out over one million photos a year.

Trailer from Ken Kobre on Vimeo.

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Kickstart This!

Posted on June 1, 2011 by webdev

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Christmas Day in Los Angeles, 1993

Posted on May 29, 2011 by webdev

Christmas Day Outside Our Downtown Loft – 1993: Ivi Anna, Kim, Nikolas

 

 

Another resurrection from the archives …

This one was originally a color snapshot made with a borrowed, cheap, entry-level Polaroid camera.  Then it was scanned some years ago.  When I recently rediscovered it, the thing was a 600px wide image that I am now bumping up to 2000px or thereabouts using a new copy of OnOne Software’s Perfect Resize 7 (formerly Genuine Fractals), as a test.   Click the image to see what happened.  I will probably further test this by trying to make some largish prints.

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