adski_kafeteri: Ruth St. Denis in Dance of Theodora
“Прототип” обкладинки монографії Олеся Обертаса про самвидав. На фото (знімав на Фуджі-200 Зенітом ЕТ) - друкарська машинка “Москва”, цікавинка якої - українські літери (“ї” та “є”). Машинка ця знаходиться в Полтаві у батьків. На ній я друкував записки мамі у першому класі і міждержавні пакти (ми з сусідом обчиталися “Кондуїту і Швамбранії” Льва Кассиля) трохи пізніше. А нині ось, провів цілу фотосесію. :)
Barbara Bosworth (b. April 2, 1953): Artist’s Bluff, White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, 1991 - gelatin silver print on paper (Smithsonian)
“Photographer Barbara Bosworth focuses on landscape photography and is particularly interested in the interrelatedness of man and the natural environment. Subdued and ironic, her work often reveals the sacredness of the land and the effects of human encroachment. She has frequently photographed the stripping of the land for suburban and agricultural use, documenting the construction of golf courses, cemeteries, and farming tracts over unspoiled lands. Bosworth’s keen observation has also captured many quiet moments in nature, through images of Yellowstone National Park, Niagara Falls, and the National Champion trees of Ohio, among others.” - Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling. Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico: The National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, 1992).
Reblogged from Ordinary finds.
My big project — possibly undergirding my dissertation in a year: Postal services and pneumatic tube systems in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially in Paris. I’m reading these services in terms of their urban interfaces, their material qualities and the interest in the 1870s-1890s of physical networks across cities. Paris is interesting because of an explosion of postal and telegraph products and services, the response to the siege of the city (Balloon Post!), and the shift from electric to material form to someone’s doorstep in terms of message delivery. The Hôtel des Postes fascinates because of its ingenious interfaces within the building and its processing capability; the pneumatic tubes are fascinating because they make manifest the force of air and use it to literally propel information across a building or a city. (via Postal services and pneumatic tubes - active social plastic
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