O. Winston Link, photographer and field recordist documented the end of the steam era in the 1950s.
A great NPR piece featuring an interview with Tom Garver curator of the O. Winston Link museum (formerly Link’s assistant).
More sound recording samples are here.
Dillon Marsh, Invasive Species 04
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A Burger King surrounded by blast barriers in Baghdad in 2008. Photo by Donovan Wylie.
Image used to illustrate “How cities reshape themselves when trust vanishes” by Thanassis Cambanis.
“At root, cities depend on constant leaps of faith. Each act of violence—a mugging, a murder, a bombing—erodes that faith. Over time, especially if there are more attacks, a city will adapt in subtle but profound and insidious ways.”
Twitter / MassStatePolice: “Photos taken from State Police Air Wing on Watertown manhunt.Media, please credit MSP for pics.”
“Thomas Sauvin says he is not an artist. He is a editor, curator, collector and archivist. Since 2005, he has rescued over half a million photographic negatives that were on their way to being destroyed. Through the whole of his archive he has created an unedited portrait of a transforming post socialist China.”
“A new digital magazine for architecture and beyond”