Piles of harvested salt in Saline Valley, CA. 1912 or 1913.
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Long before Los Angeles became the driving capital of the world, many Angelenos relied on the local rail lines like most major cities. This short documentary, A Ride on the Last of the Red Cars, shows the quaint, nostalgic L.A. of 1961, before buses and car culture consumed Southern California.
(via latimes)
"In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means, “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship. It’s a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the Wheel. It’s called a Carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Around and around, and back home again… to a place where we know we are loved."
Don Draper (via nedhepburn)
“I just love to photograph. I get up in the morning and I know that’s what I want to do. Why shouldn’t a photographer be like any other workman? Why should he sit around and wait until the sun hits an object in a certain way?”
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“Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. It is important to see what is invisible to others. Perhaps the look of hope or the look of sadness. Also, it is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.”
- Robert Frank
Chauncey Hare, Standard Oil Company of California, from This Was Corporate America, 1976-77
From the artist:
“These photographs were made by Chauncey Hare to protest and warn against the growing domination of working people by multinational corporations and their elite owners and managers.”
"The operating principle that seems to work best is to go to the landscape that frightens you the most and take pictures until you’re not scared anymore."
Robert Adams, 1982
"Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision… as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, ‘You want me to say it worse?’"
Robert Adams (via aaroncanipe)
tarawray asked: Your series is very powerful. I got a lot out of it. Thanks for sharing.
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© Christian Suarez
Banks have a new remedy for America’s ailing housing market: bulldozers.
There are nearly 1.7 million homes in the U.S. in some state of foreclosure. Banks already own some of these homes and will soon repossess many more. Many housing economists worry that a near constant stream of home sales by banks could keep housing prices down for years to come. But what if some of those homes never hit the market?
