Yuen-Fu Monastery, Formosa, 1870, John Thomson
One of the great joys of the past few years has been the movement by museums, libraries and archives to digitize and make accessible hundreds of thousands of photographs in their collections. It amazes me how little The Commons is discussed in the endless debates about the pros and cons of digitization. Never before have so many images by masters and commoners been accessible for study, inspiration, education or appropriation. My new favorite site, Indicommons, aims to make these photographic commons more well known.
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Thanks for sharing this fabulous resource with your readers, Amy. It's great to see these hidden gems finally getting the attention they deserve. It's particularly satisfying to see so many vernacular photographs on the web. As many photographers make the move to digital, we will appreciate these one-of-a-kind, paper images more and more, I think. Thanks for posting!
Michelle
www.gwarlingo.com
I thought that you may be interested in a monthly posting called “5 on the fifth” where you take 5 photographs on a theme and add your link to my blog. Interested?
Here’s a link to my blog with some details:
http://thestateofthenationuk.blogspot.com/2011/06/july.html
And the last few 5 on the fifth entries:
http://thestateofthenationuk.blogspot.com/search/label/5%20on%20the%20fifth
Beautiful Scene. Looking awesome in Black and white.
Way cool Amy. Thanks for sharing this beautiful pic.
Thank you for sharing this link, it looks like an interesting site. I love looking through old photographs. My mom has been scanning in hundreds of years of family genealogy and photographs and putting them online for our family. They are great treasures!
Spooky picture...thx for sharing!
Fantastic B&W photo - thanks for sharing
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