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Cass, a historic logging town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, founded in 1901, named for Joseph Kerr Cass, vice president and cofounder of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.
The Cass saw mill operation was enormous during its heyday 1908 to 1922, cutting 1.5 million feet (457.2 Km) of lumber per week. The cut logs were brought to the saw mill and went to a series of process of washing, cleaning, cutting, drying, and smoothing for use by paper and hardwood-flooring companies throughout the U.S. Drying kilns were using 11 miles (17.7 Km) of steam pipe.
In 1960 the mill closed. In 1963, the state bought the logging railroad and converted it into a tourist attraction, carrying passengers into the vast Monongahela National Forest. In the late 1970s, the state bought most of the town and its buildings for the new Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. In 1982 the mill burned down.
Park offers excursions that transport visitors back in time and an era when steam-driven locomotives were an essential part of everyday life.
The Cass Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Cass, a historic logging town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, founded in 1901, named for Joseph Kerr Cass, vice president and cofounder of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.
The Cass saw mill operation was enormous during its heyday 1908 to 1922, cutting 1.5 million feet (457.2 Km) of lumber per week. The cut logs were brought to the saw mill and went to a series of process of washing, cleaning, cutting, drying, and smoothing for use by paper and hardwood-flooring companies throughout the U.S. Drying kilns were using 11 miles (17.7 Km) of steam pipe.
In 1960 the mill closed. In 1963, the state bought the logging railroad and converted it into a tourist attraction, carrying passengers into the vast Monongahela National Forest. In the late 1970s, the state bought most of the town and its buildings for the new Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. In 1982 the mill burned down.
Park offers excursions that transport visitors back in time and an era when steam-driven locomotives were an essential part of everyday life.
The Cass Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Finally recovering from the Nightscaper Conference last week. As always Royce Bair put together an awesome event. I was privileged enough to assist many of the speakers during the conference and host a round table. The round table was a discussion about photography Ethics. Photography ethics are the principles that guide how we take and share photographs. Photography ethics are subjective, contextual, and fluid, meaning every person's ethics will be different, because ethics are based on a person's life experiences and values. Although everyone will answer ethical questions in their own way and according to observed circumstances, there are some key ethical questions that are useful to consider. This is the incredible panel that I had for the round table.
Wayne Pinkston – Cofounder of LowLevelLighting.org
Mike Shaw – Award winning astrophotographer and author
Brad Goldpaint - 2018 Astronomy Photographer of the year
Bryony Richards – International Award-winning photographer
Jack Fusco - an early nighscape innovator who loves to keep it simple and as real as possible.
Again I can only say that it was such a privilege to host these incredible photographers. each of them were so professional and shared their passion for photography. They had some tough questions to answer and did so with the upmost respect for their passion. One of the questions asked is below. Unanimously the panel felt it important to not share the location. It is not so much to keep a secret as it is to protect the area. We all love to share our images but everyone agreed that photographers need to understand our responsibility to leave no trace.
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The term “social media influencer” has become a goal of many. It is not hard to find one. It is the account with thousands of followers that has a pretty photo posted from a stunning location. Some of these influencers have sponsors. They create post content that people like. Do some social media influencers cross the line?
Question:
Does social media help or hurt? Does it bring too much attention to a particular place?
I shot this image the night after the conference. I hope you enjoy it.
River Place Marina, Hawthorne Bridge , Willamette River
Hawthorne Bridge - NRHP #12000932
The Hawthorne Bridge is a truss bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, joining Hawthorne Boulevard and Madison Street. It is the oldest vertical-lift bridge in operation in the United States and the oldest highway bridge in Portland. It is also the busiest bicycle and transit bridge in Oregon, with over 8,000 cyclists and 800 TriMet buses (carrying about 17,400 riders) daily. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 2012. (#12000932)
Statistics
The bridge consists of five fixed spans and one 244-foot-long (74 m) vertical-lift span. It is 1,382 feet (421 m) in total length. The bridge was originally 63 feet (19 m) wide, including two five-foot sidewalks, but the sidewalks were widened to 10 feet in 1998, increasing the structure's overall width to 73 feet (22 m). The 880,000-pound (400,000 kg) counterweights are suspended from the two 165-foot-tall (50 m) towers. It is operated by a pair of 150-horsepower motors. On average, the lift span is raised for river traffic 120 times per month. While the river is at low level, the bridge is 49 feet (15 m) above the water, causing it to be raised an average of 200 times per month. The bridge was designed by Waddell & Harrington, which also designed the Steel and Interstate bridges. John Alexander Low Waddell invented the modern-day vertical-lift bridge.
History
The current bridge was built to replace the second Madison Street Bridge, a wooden bridge built in 1900. It cost $511,000 to build and was opened on December 19, 1910. Hawthorne Boulevard (and thus the bridge) was named after Dr. J.C. Hawthorne, the cofounder of Oregon's first mental hospital and early proponent for the first Morrison Bridge.
The streetcar tracks across the bridge were originally in the outer lanes, but were relocated to the center lanes in 1931. The deck was changed from wood to steel grating in 1945.
In 1985 the lift span sheaves, the grooved wheels that guide the counterweight cables, were replaced. The bridge went through a $21 million renovation from 1998 to 1999, which included replacing the steel grated deck and repainting. The original lead-based paint was completely removed and replaced with 3 layers of new paint that is estimated to last 30 years. During this upgrade the sidewalks were widened to 10 feet (3.0 m), making it a thoroughfare for bicycle commuters. Due to the replacement of the steel deck during this project, the channels which used to carry the rails for streetcars and interurban trains were also removed. The bridge was closed for one year to permit the renovation to be carried out.
The original color of the bridge was black, lasting until 1964, when it was repainted yellow ochre. During the 1998–99 renovation, the color was changed to green with red trim.
In 2001, the sidewalks were connected to the Eastbank Esplanade. In 2005, the estimated cost to replace the bridge was $189.3 million.
The 2003 film, The Hunted, included a scene set on MAX on the Hawthorne Bridge. Since MAX does not cross the bridge, the movie company connected two articulated buses remodeled to resemble a MAX train, complete with fake overhead lines and a sprinkler system to simulate rain. Light-rail (interurban) service did cross the Hawthorne Bridge until 1956.
The new deck put in place in the outer lanes during the 1998–99 renovation was designed to be strong enough for possible use by modern, heavier streetcars or light rail trains in the future, which was proposed at that time, and TriMet was still considering a Hawthorne Bridge routing for its future MAX Orange Line, to Milwaukie, in 2002. However, following the transit agency's later decision to build the Tilikum Crossing for the Milwaukie MAX line, which bridge could also be used by the Portland Streetcar, it became unlikely that rail cars will ever again cross the Hawthorne Bridge.
The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 2012.
(Wikipedia)
An old image of Saint Cajetan at the Casa Gorordo Museum.
Saint Cajetan, 1480–1547, Italian churchman and reformer. Son of the count of Thiene, he studied civil and canon law, but abandoned work as a jurist at the papal court to become a priest. He advocated communities of priests who lived in poverty and worked among the people. He was the leader in founding the congregation of the Theatines, formally begun in 1524 and named for a cofounder and first superior, the bishop of Chieti , who was later Paul IV. Cajetan's vigor in reform made him a notable figure, and the Theatines were very active in the Counter Reformation. Cajetan was canonized in 1671. His feast is celebrated every 7th day of August.
Casa Gorordo Museum
Gabii Sa Kabilin
May 29, 2009, 6:00 PM to 12:00 MN
A protest sign painted by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, famous beat poet and cofounder of the City Lights Book Store in San Francisco, CA, USA. Thanks for looking. It's a pleasure sharing images with you.
In most cases, I am more than happy to let worthy organizations use my work. If you'd to like use one of my images, simply leave me a comment or contact me via Flickr Mail. Please ask.
Great old neon sign. Love the neon hanger too.
On a sad note, the marqee part of this sign (not shown) said:
COFOUNDER GEORGE PIERCE DIED OCT 20 RIP
Bless you George, and thanks for a great sign.
Lucina Chapel was built in 1923 from a grant by Edward Stevens Henry and bares the name of his wife Lucina who passed at the age of ninety-eight. The Chapel is located in Grove Hill Cemetery within Rockville (Vernon), Connecticut.
Henry was a businessman, a thoroughbred livestock breeder, cofounder of People’s Savings Bank of Rockville, and a politician. He served as State Representative, Senator, Connecticut State Treasurer and Mayor of the city of Rockville.
At St. Wojciech Hill
According to tradition, the hill known today as św. Wojciecha (St Adalbert) Hill was where bishop Adalbert preached in 996-997 before becoming a martyr and the first church was built here in 1222.
In front of the church there is a wooden belfry from the beginning of the 17th century.
In 1923 a Memorial Crypt was created in the church vaults, popularly known as "Skałka Poznańska". There are the mortal remains of many famous and important Poles, among them Józef Wybicki (1747-1822); cofounder of the Polish Legions in Italy and author of Polish national anthemn.
On the outside walls of the church and on the perimeter wall there are many commemorative plaques of eminent Great Poland citizens, including those of Klaudyna Potocka, Emilia Sczaniecka, Aniela Tułodziecka, and the Divisional Commander of Polish National Army, Colonel Henryk Kowalówka. In front of the church there is a wooden 17th century shingled belfry with three bells.
Today's church was built in the 15th century as a single nave Gothic edifice and the side naves were added in the next century. At the turn of the 16th century the church was provided with Renaissance gables and extended by St Anthony Chapel in the south. During WWII it was one of the two churches (the other one being Our Lady of Sorrows Church in the borough of Łazarz) where Polish people were allowed to worship. It was destroyed during the fighting to liberate the city in 1945 and rebuilt shortly after.
It is a three - nave church with stellar vaulting. The interior is adorned with secessionist polychromy by Antoni Procajłowicz from 1911-12. The high altar - stylised to make it look Gothic - dates from 1953. In its central compartment there is a 15th century Gothic relief of Ascension of Virgin Mary, attributed to a Wit Stwosz disciple. In the side naves there are three late Renaissance altars; the one in the south nave features a 16th century Italian school painting Mourning Christ. The imitation - stone pulpit, adorned by reliefs depicting outstanding Polish preachers, was made in 1925 by Marcin Rożek. In the south nave there are four coffin portraits from the 17th century and a marble sarcophagus of Karol Marcinkowski, also created by Marcin Rożek.
In St Anthony's Chapel on the south side (the passage has an impressive 17th century lattice) there are numerous epitaphs for national heroes and distinct Great Poland citizens. One of the attractions of the church is the Nativity with the crib from Bethlehem and 102 statues featuring Polish kings and heroes, eminent scientists, writers and musicians.
The Hawthorne Bridge is a truss bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, joining Hawthorne Boulevard and Madison Street. It is the oldest vertical-lift bridge in operation in the United States and the oldest highway bridge in Portland. It is also the busiest bicycle and transit bridge in Oregon, with over 8,000 cyclists and 800 TriMet buses (carrying about 17,400 riders) daily. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 2012. (#12000932)
Statistics
The bridge consists of five fixed spans and one 244-foot-long (74 m) vertical-lift span. It is 1,382 feet (421 m) in total length. The bridge was originally 63 feet (19 m) wide, including two five-foot sidewalks, but the sidewalks were widened to 10 feet in 1998, increasing the structure's overall width to 73 feet (22 m). The 880,000-pound (400,000 kg) counterweights are suspended from the two 165-foot-tall (50 m) towers. It is operated by a pair of 150-horsepower motors. On average, the lift span is raised for river traffic 120 times per month. While the river is at low level, the bridge is 49 feet (15 m) above the water, causing it to be raised an average of 200 times per month. The bridge was designed by Waddell & Harrington, which also designed the Steel and Interstate bridges. John Alexander Low Waddell invented the modern-day vertical-lift bridge.
History
The current bridge was built to replace the second Madison Street Bridge, a wooden bridge built in 1900. It cost $511,000 to build and was opened on December 19, 1910. Hawthorne Boulevard (and thus the bridge) was named after Dr. J.C. Hawthorne, the cofounder of Oregon's first mental hospital and early proponent for the first Morrison Bridge.
The streetcar tracks across the bridge were originally in the outer lanes, but were relocated to the center lanes in 1931. The deck was changed from wood to steel grating in 1945.
In 1985 the lift span sheaves, the grooved wheels that guide the counterweight cables, were replaced. The bridge went through a $21 million renovation from 1998 to 1999, which included replacing the steel grated deck and repainting. The original lead-based paint was completely removed and replaced with 3 layers of new paint that is estimated to last 30 years. During this upgrade the sidewalks were widened to 10 feet (3.0 m), making it a thoroughfare for bicycle commuters. Due to the replacement of the steel deck during this project, the channels which used to carry the rails for streetcars and interurban trains were also removed. The bridge was closed for one year to permit the renovation to be carried out.
The original color of the bridge was black, lasting until 1964, when it was repainted yellow ochre. During the 1998–99 renovation, the color was changed to green with red trim.
In 2001, the sidewalks were connected to the Eastbank Esplanade. In 2005, the estimated cost to replace the bridge was $189.3 million.
The 2003 film, The Hunted, included a scene set on MAX on the Hawthorne Bridge. Since MAX does not cross the bridge, the movie company connected two articulated buses remodeled to resemble a MAX train, complete with fake overhead lines and a sprinkler system to simulate rain. Light-rail (interurban) service did cross the Hawthorne Bridge until 1956.
The new deck put in place in the outer lanes during the 1998–99 renovation was designed to be strong enough for possible use by modern, heavier streetcars or light rail trains in the future, which was proposed at that time, and TriMet was still considering a Hawthorne Bridge routing for its future MAX Orange Line, to Milwaukie, in 2002. However, following the transit agency's later decision to build the Tilikum Crossing for the Milwaukie MAX line, which bridge could also be used by the Portland Streetcar, it became unlikely that rail cars will ever again cross the Hawthorne Bridge.
The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 2012.
(Wikipedia)
The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By
Authors: Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Kate Sweetman
Publication Date: January 2009
Description: What makes a great leader?It's a question that has been tackled by thousands. In fact, there are literally tens of thousands of leadership studies, theories, frameworks, models, and recommended best practices. But where are the clear, simple answers we need for our daily work lives? Are there any?
Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Kate Sweetman set out to answer these questions--to crack the code of leadership. Drawing on decades of research experience, the authors conducted extensive interviews with a variety of respected CEOs, academics, experienced executives, and seasoned consultants -- and heard the same five essentials repeated again and again. These five rules became The Leadership Code.
In The Leadership Code, the authors break down great leadership into day-to-day actions, so that you know what to do Monday morning. Crack the leadership code--and take your leadership to the next level.
Author Bios: Dave Ulrich is Professor of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group. In 2008, Fast Company named him one of the ten most innovative and creative business management thinkers.
Norm Smallwood is cofounder of the RBL Group. His is also on the faculty of the Executive Education Center at the University of Michigan Business School.
Kate Sweetman is a leadership development consultant and a former editor at Harvard Business Review.
Dave's RBL Page: www.daveulrich.com/
Norm's RBL Page:
Other works by these authors:
Leadership Brand
Why the Bottom Line ISN'T!
The Change Champion's Fieldguide
HBR Articles
Contact: publicity@hbr.org
Excerpt from historicplaces.ca:
The Gouinlock House, located at 42 Broadway Street East, is situated on the southwest corner of Broadway and Emily Streets, in the former Town of Paris, now the County of Brant. The property consists of a one-storey, rubble-stone, building constructed in 1845.
The property was designated by the former Town of Paris, in 1984, for its historic or architectural value under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act (By-law 2568).
The Gouinlock House is associated with John Penman, one of Paris's leading early industrialists and the cofounder of the Penman Manufacturing Company Limited. Penman rented this home, in the mid-1880s, while his permanent residence, Penmarvian, was under renovation.
Built in 1845, the Gouinlock House is thought to be the only solid rubble-stone building in Paris. This home features local materials and skilled craftsmanship. The exterior of the home was parging and etched to resemble cut stone blocks or coursed ashlar. The original roof of wooden shakes, laid in mortar, is covered with tin sheeting. The more notable features of this home include the large windows, the chimneys, the etched glass doors and the woodwork. Though both the enclosed verandah and a rear portion of the home were additions, the use of rubble-stone and the sympathetic design maintained the integrity of the home.
Character defining elements that contribute to the heritage value of the Gouinlock House include its:
- local rubble-stone as the primary construction material
- original roof of wooden shakes laid in mortar, now covered by a tin roof
- parged mortar exterior, which resembles cut stone blocks
- etched glass doors
- woodwork
- enclosed verandah
- large windows
- chimneys
The horse lifeboat on Ameland, the Netherlands, is pulled with thunderous force over the beach and through the surf in the sea by 10 tough horses. It shows that search and rescue have a long and rich history at Ameland. Nowadays the modern high speed craft Anna Margaretha is stationed at Ameland.
When the modern lifeboat came in 1988, this 162-year-old tradition came to an end. The Stichting Paardenreddingboot Ameland has made it possible that visitors to Ameland can still witness this spectacle. The Foundation provides approximately ten to fifteen demonstrations per year.
Abraham Fock (August 2, 1793 - September 24, 1858) was president of the Dutch National Bank. He guided DNB through turbulent waters of reforms, introducing the silver standard and stagnating economic growth. Fock was also co-founder of the Koninklijke Noord- en Zuid-Hollandsche Redding Maatschappij (the Royal North and South Holland Rescue Company; nowadays: the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution).
Technical stuff
This is a single shot HDR. Due to the strong movement in the photo a multi shot HDR would be less logical. I took this shot a 16-24mm at 16mils, 1/950, -2/3 at 320 ISO.
Post production was done with Aurora HDR 2018 and Lightroom CC. I finally added a copyright signs. The latter is, alas, there to stay due to the fact that my photos were frequently copied. So, don't bother commenting on that.
Huffington Post cofounder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington spoke about the balance of engagement between the government and non-government worlds at FedTalks 2010.
Bernard Safran (June 3, 1924 – October 14, 1995) was an American painter known for his realistic portraits and scenes of everyday life in New York and in rural Canada. He created many portraits for Time magazine covers, with subjects that included Elizabeth II, Pope John XXIII & Peru's President Belaunde.
Fernando Belaúnde - Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry (October 7, 1912 – June 4, 2002) was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years of military rule.
Belaúnde's political career began in 1944 as cofounder of the National Democratic Front party which elected José Bustamante as president in 1945; he served in the Peruvian Congress until a coup by General Manuel Odría in 1948 interrupted democratic elections. Belaúnde returned to the political arena in 1956, when the outgoing Odría dictatorship called for elections and he led the slate submitted by the "National Front of Democratic Youth", an organization formed by reform-minded university students, some of which had studied under him; his principled support for the La Prensa newspaper, which had been closed down by the dictatorship in early 1956, had prompted the leadership of the National Front to approach him as to lead its slate.
Belaúnde's 1956 candidacy was ultimately unsuccessful, as the dictatorship-favored right-wing candidacy of Manuel Prado took first place. Claiming irregularities, he prepared to lead the opposition, and in July 1956 in Chincheros, Cuzco, founded the center-right Acción Popular party, claiming the mantle of recapturing indigenous Inca traditions of community and cooperation in a modern social democratic context, placing itself squarely between the pro-oligarchy right-wing and the radicalism of the left-wing APRA and communist parties.
Belaúnde ran for president once again in the general elections of 1962, this time with his own party, Acción Popular. The results were very tight; he ended in second place, following Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (APRA), by less than 14,000 votes. Since none of the candidates managed to get the constitutionally-established minimum of one third of the vote required to win outright, selection of the President would fall to Congress; the long-held antagonistic relationship between the military and APRA prompted Haya de la Torre to make a deal with former dictator Odría, who had come in third, which would result in Odría taking the Presidency in a coalition government.
However, widespread allegations of fraud prompted the Peruvian military to depose Prado and install a military junta, led by Ricardo Pérez Godoy. Pérez Godoy ran a short transitional government and held new elections in 1963, which were won by Belaúnde by a more comfortable but still narrow five percent margin.
First presidency (1963–1968) - During Belaúnde's first term in office, he spurred numerous developmental projects. Belaúnde held a doctrine called "The Conquest of Peru by Peruvians", which promoted the exploitation of resources in the Amazon rainforest and other outlying areas of Peru through conquest, stating "only by turning our vision to the interior, and conquering our wilderness as the United States once did, will South America finally achieve true development". These included the Carretera Marginal de la Selva, a highway linking Chiclayo on the Pacific coast with then isolated northern regions of Amazonas and San Martín. In 1964, the Belaúnde administration targeted the Matsés indigenous group after two loggers were killed, with the Peruvian armed forces using aircraft to drop napalm on the Matsés who were armed only with bows and arrows, killing hundreds of them.
Second presidency (1980–1985) In April 1980, with Peru's economy in deep depression, the military administration permitted an election for the restoration of constitutional rule. Belaúnde won a five-year term, polling an impressive 45 percent of the vote in a 15-man contest. One of his first actions as president was the return of several newspapers to their respective owners. In this way, freedom of speech once again played an important part in Peruvian politics. Gradually, he attempted to undo some of the most radical effects of the agrarian reform initiated by Velasco, and reversed the independent stance that the Military Government of Velasco had with the United States.
At the outbreak of the 1982 Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) between Argentina and the United Kingdom, Belaúnde declared that Peru was ready to support Argentina with all the resources it needed. This included a number of fighter planes from the Peruvian Air Force, ships, and medical teams. Belaúnde's government proposed a peace settlement between the two countries, but the Argentine military junta rejected it and the British launched an attack on the Argentinian forces deployed around the islands. In response to Chile's support of Britain, Belaúnde called for Latin American unity.
Post-presidency (1985–2002) During the national elections of 1985, Belaúnde's party, Acción Popular, was defeated by APRA candidate Alan García. However, as established in the 1979 Constitution, he would go on to serve in the Peruvian Senate as Senador Vitalicio ("senator for life"), a privilege for former Presidents abolished by the 1993 Constitution.
Belaúnde’s political outlook was centre-right, pro-American, and conservative. The Guardian described him as "a 19th century politician, with a high moral purpose and a sense of civic duty, who was perfectly at home in the conservative political milieu of 20th-century Peru, which for long occupied a time-warp, unusual even in Latin America, about a century behind the rest of the world".
On my way South on this splendid Autumn day, I took a local train - amusingly called Sprinter - from Utrecht through many stops to Zaltbommel. I've whizzed past that town hundreds of time on the express trains and never visited. But today...
The small but pleasant city lies on the southern banks of the Waal River and was of strategic importance in the Dutch wars for independence (1568-1648). I suppose in modern times it's noted for being the birthplace of Anton Philips (1874-1951), cofounder with his brother of the electronics firm of the same name in Eindhoven.
But the name (Zalt)Bommel rings in the ears of many people in Holland through the famous and oft-quoted poem 'That Woman, My Mother' by Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953). See my earlier
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But the present-day bridge is a new one (1996) replacing the older one of 1933 that Nijhoff knew as 'new'. Although it's a fabel that he actually visited it and then wrote his poem. Regardless... And anyway, the ship, too, recalls the poem.
As I was exploring the River's dead-ends and meanders a Bumblebee tumbled past and made for a late Bramble Flower. And that brought to my mind another wonderful poem by the same poet 'The Song of the Foolish Bees'. One of its verses;
'No one’s by nature able
to interrupt his passion,
no one’s by nature able
to suffer death incarnate.'
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I trained away with the sonorous sound of the majestic organ of the Sint-Maartenskerk in my ears.
For the last couple of weeks of the « Rencontres Photos » of Arles in sharing with you, you'll take a ticket for black & white exhibitions....and I'll finish, next week, by a tribute to a great british photographer , whose exhibition has been successfull, Don McCullin....
The exhibition "Pas de Deux" brings together the photographs taken by Eikoh Hosoe and those taken by William Klein of Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010), the cofounder of the Japanese dance form Butoh. "Pas de Deux" also interrogates the performative aspect of the photographic act. In 1961, William Klein went to Tokyo and created photographic work that would be published in 1964 under the title Tokyo. Fascinated by a changing city making its definitive turn towards modernity, Klein explored its neighbourhoods with the onsite help of Eikoh Hosoe and the members of the VIVO collective, which the latter had cofounded. The masterly book "The Butterfly Dream" (2006) recounts the intense collaboration between Eikoh Hosoe and Kazuo Ohno from 1960 through 2005. Beyond the idea of a photographer recording an ephemeral performance, this is an artwork in which Kazuo Ohno dances for the camera of Eikoh Hosoe, who, in return, stages and directs him through photography, in such a way that it becomes impossible to tell who is leading whom.
The Greenbrier River as it runs through Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, in Cass, West Virginia.
MONONGAHELA NATIONAL FOREST
"The Monongahela National Forest is a national forest located in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It protects over 921,000 acres (3,727 km2; 1,439 sq mi) of federally managed land within a 1,700,000 acres (6,880 km2; 2,656 sq mi) proclamation boundary that includes much of the Potomac Highlands Region and portions of 10 counties.
The Monongahela National Forest includes some major landform features such as the Allegheny Front and the western portion of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. Within the forest boundaries lie some of the highest mountain peaks in the state, including the highest, Spruce Knob (4,863 ft). Spruce Knob is also the highest point in the Allegheny Mountains. Approximately 75 tree species are found in the forest. Almost all of the trees are a second growth forest, grown back after the land was heavily cut over around the start of the 20th century. Species for which the forest is important include red spruce (Picea rubens), balsam fir (Abies balsamea), and mountain ash (Sorbus americana).
The Monongahela National Forest includes eight U.S. Wilderness Areas and several special-use areas, notably the Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area." (Wikipedia.)
CASS, WEST VIRGINIA
"Cass is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community on the Greenbrier River in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 38 at the 2020 census. The community, founded in 1901, was named for Joseph Kerr Cass, vice president and cofounder of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.
Cass was created in 1901 as a company town for those who worked for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, logging the nearby Cheat Mountain. The cut logs were brought by rail to the town, where they were processed for use by paper and hardwood-flooring companies throughout the United States. Cass's skilled laborers, who worked in the mill or the locomotive repair shop, lived with their families in 52 white-fenced houses, built in orderly rows on a hill south of the general store.
In 1960 the mill closed. In 1963, the state bought the logging railroad and converted it into a tourist attraction, carrying passengers into the vast Monongahela National Forest. In the late 1970s, the state bought most of the town and its buildings for the new Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. In 1982 the mill burned down.
The Cass Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980." (Wikipedia.)
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The exhibition "Pas de Deux" brings together the photographs taken by Eikoh Hosoe and those taken by William Klein of Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010), the cofounder of the Japanese dance form Butoh. "Pas de Deux" also interrogates the performative aspect of the photographic act. In 1961, William Klein went to Tokyo and created photographic work that would be published in 1964 under the title Tokyo. Fascinated by a changing city making its definitive turn towards modernity, Klein explored its neighbourhoods with the onsite help of Eikoh Hosoe and the members of the VIVO collective, which the latter had cofounded. The masterly book "The Butterfly Dream" (2006) recounts the intense collaboration between Eikoh Hosoe and Kazuo Ohno from 1960 through 2005. Beyond the idea of a photographer recording an ephemeral performance, this is an artwork in which Kazuo Ohno dances for the camera of Eikoh Hosoe, who, in return, stages and directs him through photography, in such a way that it becomes impossible to tell who is leading whom.
A cofounder of a women’s coat and suit company, Hirshfield began making art at age sixty-five. His focus and methods in painting extended from his skills as a tailor. Depicting mainly female nudes and women performers, Hirshfield often prepared full-scale drawings of his compositions and traced them onto his canvases as stencil patterns. This process remains visible in Stage Beauties: the pencil tracing marks can be seen through the paint layer. Influential gallery owner Sidney Janis propelled Hirshfield to fame after he discovered the self-taught artist’s work in New York