The images you see here are mostly work from the hands of other photographers and the criteria I use for collecting images are personal and ineffable. Collaging the images into something other is merely my own enjoyment of the subtleties of origin and relationship. I view the things I store here as seed-verses for artistic thinking. Nothing special.
Most of the architectural photography comes from the Library of Congress and most of the pictures of people are retrieved from thrift store bins; the astronomer’s photographs are gleaned from the public domain and sundry other images are culled from the television screen with an SLR camera.
Some of the original photographs frequently show signs of honest damage or hasty handling in the darkroom and I sometimes subject them to digital cleaning and cropping. I aim for legibility but in some cases you’ll find imperfections as they lay from the hand of the photographers who printed them or the from the hand of time itself.
Stored here are the rich and layered flow experiences of many persons living and dead. I offer you a view of this cabinet with a minimum of interference. All of the entries are expandable with a click of your mouse. In a spirit of hospitality my door is always left open.
Thanks to the diligent researchers and photographers at the Historic American Buildings Survey. Thanks to the teams of astronomers at the NASA/JPL/SpaceScienceInstitute and the University of Arizona’s Planetary Sciences Institute.