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Eiffel Tower Structure - Today is the anniversary of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. 126 years ago today, the Eiffel Tower was first opened to the public.
Hard to believe it was only built to last 20 years and now gets 7 million visitors annually.
It's difficult to get a unique photographic angle of the Eiffel Tower as I'm sure every conceivable shot has been done already. Using a tilt-shift technique I can blur out the rest of the surrounding areas and show the beautiful iron works of its lower structure.
[Winter scene with log structure, Grisons, Switzerland]
[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Notes:
"1024" stamped in ink on the back of the print.
Title from identifying information provided by the Flickr Commons project, 2009. (Print not listed in the Detroit Publishing Company, Catalogue J, 1905.)
Forms part of: Nineteenth century travel views of Europe in the Photochrom print collection.
Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Nineteenth century travel views of Europe (DLC) 2002707970
More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.09993
Call Number: LOT 13512, no. 21 [item]
Between the lines, the patterns and the reflections
You can lose your identity
And in this cold geometry lose your humanity
Entre les lignes, les motifs et les reflets
Il y a de quoi perdre son identité
Et dans cette géométrie glacée égarer son humanité...
Liège-Guillemins, Belgium
A shot from under the Fourth Rail Bridge looking up on some of the amazing structure and engineering.
Das Bild entstand durch eine Fehlzündung, nach dem Spielen in ACDSee fand ichs aber irgendwie doch cool.
This is the interior portion of a large sculpture called cardboard/sound by Chui Yao Judy Chan, Melinda Sue-Li Chan and David Chii Zhong Yeow; students from the Melbourne School of Design. The entire structure is made from cardboard!
The work is on display in the skybridge outside Myer Melbourne as part of a temporary exhibit called "Inhabiting Materials, Managing Environments".
Ruined stone structure sits amidst a grassy hillside. The structure's decay is evident, and the surrounding landscape is a mix of grass and rocky terrain. The scene suggests a historical site, possibly a former dwelling.
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Kodak Ektar 100
Double exposure of NY street and random building. I'm playing with this more and more.
Dans ma quête pour la photo 16 de mon Projet 52, j'ai pensé choisir celle-ci. Elle est arrivée 2e.
L'édifice est situé sur la rue Sanguinet, au nord de René-Lévesque, à côté d'un pavillon de l'UQAM.
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Searching for photo 16 of my Project 52, I took this picture. It came in 2nd place.
The building is located on Sanguinet street, north of René-Lévesque, next to a UQAM building.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) leader Ralph Abernathy introduces Jesse Jackson May 22, 1968 as the manager of Resurrection City—the encampment near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. where most participants in the Poor Peoples’ Campaign camped.
A “city hall” banner is being tacked on the side of one of the plywood structures that made up the campsite.
Jackson’s tenure in the camp helped to catapult him into a national leader.
The six-week Poor People’s Campaign from May 21st until June 24th for economic justice and against the Vietnam War drew upwards of 100,000 people at its peak in addition to the 3,000 encamped on the national mall.
A small group of demonstrators continued the protests for a couple weeks after the camp was cleared.
Originally conceived by King as a massive civil disobedience exercise to demand re-prioritizing U.S. policy away from Vietnam and toward domestic economic equality, it devolved into a permitted series of demonstrations and lobby visits following King’s death in April. The civil disobedience that was conducted was small-scale and symbolic.
The protest ended in defeat as no economic bill of rights passed Congress and many existing programs were limited or dismantled in the coming decades. Some historians mark the end of the national civil rights movement that began with the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in 1957 with this demonstration.
Jesse Jackson biography from the Black Past:
Born Jesse Burns in Greenville, South Carolina on October 8, 1941 to Helen Burns, a 17 year old unwed high school student and Noah Robinson, her older married neighbor, young Jesse took the surname Jackson from his adopted father, Charles Jackson, who later married Burns.
Insecure owing to the circumstances of his birth, Jackson decided to make himself a father figure and leader of his people.
Tall and imposing at 6’ 4,” Jackson became a star high school quarterback and earned a football scholarship at the University of Illinois in 1959.
After one year at Illinois he transferred to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical (A & T) University in Greensboro, North Carolina partly because he was not allowed to play quarterback.
At A & T, Jackson used his oratorical skills and charismatic personality to become the student body president. Encouraged to test his leadership skills, Jackson led his first march to downtown Greensboro in 1962.
Under the guidance of A & T President, Dr. Samuel Proctor, Jackson enrolled at the Chicago Theological Seminary where he planned to train for the ministry. Jackson was ordained a Baptist minister in 1968 although he left the Seminary two years earlier to work full time in the Civil Rights Movement.
Jackson’s introduction to the Movement came in 1965 when he traveled to Selma, Alabama to join in the campaign for voting rights. While there Jackson met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the man who would launch his career as a national civil rights leader.
Through King’s influence, Jackson quickly established himself prominently within King’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
When SCLC launched its first northern campaign in Chicago in 1966, Jackson was put in charge of its Operation Breadbasket which used boycotts and selective buying campaigns to win contracts for black businesses and jobs for black workers.
During the years Jackson headed Operation Breadbasket (1966 to 1971), the campaign generated over three thousand jobs for Southside Chicago residents and enlarged the income of the area by $22 million.
Despite its success, Jackson and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Martin Luther King’s successor at SCLC, clashed. In 1971, Jackson left the organization and found Operation PUSH where he continued his campaign of economic empowerment.
By the early 1980s Jackson had acquired a national reputation as a racial justice activist. That reputation was enhanced when in 1983 he traveled to Syria and made a dramatic personal appeal to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad to secure the release of a captured American pilot, Navy Lt. Robert Goodman, who had been shot down over Lebanon.
In June 1984 Jackson traveled to Havana to meet with Cuban President Fidel Castro to negotiate the release of 22 Americans being held by Castro’s government.
In 1984, following the success of his Syrian mission, Jesse Jackson mounted the second major effort by an African American (after Shirley Chisholm in 1972) to seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
He and his followers adopted the term “Rainbow Coalition” to describe the broad coalition of groups of color, working poor, gays and lesbians, and white progressives that Jackson hoped would propel him to the nomination and eventually the White House.
Despite controversial anti-Semitic remarks made during the campaign, Jackson ran a surprisingly strong race, winning primaries in five states including Michigan. Jackson garnered 21% of the primary vote but gained only 8% of the delegates and ultimately lost the nomination to former Vice President Walter Mondale.
Jackson mounted a second effort in 1988, this time winning more than seven million primary votes across the nation in another failed attempt to win the nomination. After winning the South Carolina primary, finishing second in the Illinois primary and winning the Democratic caucus in Michigan, Jackson became the Democratic frontrunner.
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis recaptured the lead with wins in the Colorado and Wisconsin primaries forcing Jackson to drop out of the race.
Jesse Jackson did not make another bid for the presidential nomination and since 1992 has functioned as a power broker within the Democratic Party.
In 1990 he won the largely ceremonial position of District of Columbia’s statehood senator, a platform from which he argued for statehood for the nation’s capital.
In 1997 Jackson launched the Wall Street Project which encouraged African Americans to become stockholders to use their leverage to force changes in corporate culture and behavior.
Two years later Jackson engaged in personal diplomacy once again when during the Kosovo War he traveled to Belgrade to meet with Yugoslav (now Serbia) president Slobodan Milosevic where he secured the release of three U.S. prisoners of war. In the same year, 1999, he brokered a cease-fire in war-ravaged Sierra Leone.
Both his supporters and critics describe Jackson as bold, defiant, and controversial. He has elicited praise for inspiring the poor with speeches punctuated by catchword phrases such as “I am somebody” and “keep hope alive.”
Critics, however, blamed Jackson for mounting blatantly self-promoting campaigns that exploited racial grievances and inflamed racial outrage.
The revelation that Jackson, married since 1962, fathered a child in 2001 with Rainbow Coalition staffer Karin Stanford, sullied his well-crafted public image as a moral leader. Nevertheless, Jesse Jackson remains enormously popular both in the United States and abroad.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
That rather quaint freshly painted building leading from the ricketty old pier is the life boat station - the easiest and speediest way to launch a lifeboat in this extreme tidal range....
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Yesterday’s Tomorrow II
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Los Angeles
California
USA
2017/06/16
A return visit to one of my favourite examples of Postmodern LA architecture and secret film sets.
The Bonaventure’s cavernous glass cylinders and myriad of interconnected walkways have been in featured in numerous TV shows and movies.
From “True Lies” to “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” and most recently used as the NASA facility and rocket launch bay in Christopher Nolan’s epic “Interstellar.”
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