Here’s the wonderful webcomic xkcd, created by Randall Munroe, showing why having libraries store photographic negatives is not such an outmoded idea. This is from 2017.
This is a personal project of mine. People talk a lot about “big data” these days, but I am more interested in “small data” that I generate myself and arrange. I often experiment with repeat photographs from my immediate surroundings. … Read More
I’m always pleased to document historic buildings that are going to be stabilized and restored, rather than demolished. Working in 2009 for BOLA Architecture and Planning, I did the top “before” photograph of two fancy automobile showrooms in Seattle that … Read More
While finishing up my documentation of the Alamo for the Historic American Buildings Survey, I had the chance to correspond with Mary McPartland, PhD, the Collections Manager of the Heritage Documentation Programs of the National Park Service. She is the … Read More
In May of 2016, I spent 6 days photographing the Mission San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo) for the State of Texas. My 4×5 film negatives and proof prints will be submitted to the Library of Congress Historic American Building … Read More
The Online Catalog of the Library of Congress now lists the documentation for this 1910 Union Pacific Railroad Bridge that was near Sunnyside, Washington in the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). I did the view camera photography for this project … Read More
HABS/HAER documentation projects still need to be photographed with large format film, but the National Park Service has made a step towards digital methods. (The formal name of this method of documentation is Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic … Read More
The Library of Congress has included my photo documentation of Boeing Plant 2 in the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). The photography is located under “HAER WA 189”. This huge building, which was between Boeing Field and the Duwamish River, … Read More
Here are two photos of the same building, the old Federal Reserve Bank in Seattle, taken from almost the same place. The top photo, by Greg Gilbert of the Seattle Times, was taken from a point a little bit closer … Read More