Ruins

Installation view of The Sun, 1957 from Sun Ruins

Hello from the West Coast! In honor of the final week of my show, Sun Ruins at Golden Gallery in New York, I'm posting my favorite heart-breaker of ruination: photographer Carleton Watkins (pictured with cane) being led away from his studio in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The contents of his studio were destroyed.


This image is from the Bancroft Library Archive at the University of California, Berkeley. More of their San Francisco Earthquake and Fire images can be found here.

Thankfully, this gem wasn't destroyed:

Section of the Grizzly Giant, 33 Feet Diameter, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, No. 111, Albumen silver print, 17 x 20 1/2 in.

From the Getty: "Galen Clark, the figure in this photograph, was designated as the guardian of the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia about the time Abraham Lincoln ceded it to California in 1864. When this picture was made, Clark lived in a cabin (not pictured) nearby and maintained a rustic way station for visitors traveling to Yosemite Valley via the Mariposa Trail, which was developed in 1859. "

Click here for the Getty's online archive of Carleton Watkins photographs.

archive • Green Screen Wizard

green screen wizard has some good samples of what you can do with it's software. more here.


[all from Green Screen Wizard]

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archive • Russian Archives Online

a nice collection of pictures of yuri gagarin, the first man in space. see more here.


[all from russian archives online]

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archive • Army Libraries Through the Years

these pictures of soldiers in libraries are mostly from the 1940's and are in a sub-section of the us army center for military history website. more categories here.

[all from us army center for military history]

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archive • Jacques Fortier

 

 

 

 

  

It's not entirely clear what Jacques Fortier's website is focused on, but he has a large collection of images relating to space, aliens and conspiracies. See more here in an old-style HTML list.

[all from Jacques Fortier]

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jason lazarus + the too hard to keep archive

jason lazarus's too hard to keep archive is a repository for images not yet destroyed but too difficult to live with. the archive started in may of 2010 and now totals over 1000 images submitted physically and electronically. as jason explains "an archive like this really gets interesting when it starts to flirt with epic proportions, complicates itself, and takes on a mass that creates its own gravity." glimpse the amassed collection and get info about how to submit your photos here.

[all from the too hard to keep archive.]

Center for Land Use Interpretation

CLUI is amazing! since 1994. more here

Storefront for Art and Architecture Archive

photos uncredited.

from Performance A-Z (Storefront's inaugural series of events in 1982)

building by Svi Hecker

Amazing archive of Storefront's 28 year history of exhibitions and projects in NYC. more here

Archive • Folkstreams

Films from Folkstreams, a National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures. See more here.


[All trailers of folkstream films from top to bottom: water from another time, home movie: an american folk art, made in mississippi.]

Benjamin Tiven

Work by Benjamin Tiven. See more here.

[all Benjamin Tiven. Top to bottom: images from the series The Implication Arrow. 2007-2008; The Small Infinity. 2009; Gravity Studies. 2008.]

Tomato Index

The Landreth Seed Company has a visual index of over 200 varieties of tomatos. See more here.

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