Reaching for the Out of Reach 45:
City folks on the promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, circa 1895.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 45:
City folks on the promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, circa 1895.
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“The frantic movement of these .GIFs implies a hurried movement of the eyes and inspires all sorts of ruminations: on the peculiar nature of our own vision (two eyes producing a single image), and on our sometimes desperate desire to know what lies just beyond the frame of a photograph”
(this is the first review i’ve seen among hundreds that really gets my project)
ps. Reaching for the Out of Reach brought more than 70,000 readers a day to cursivebuildings for awhile… the series-in-progress has been featured on two television shows & what seems like every influential website (except kottke!) across the globe.
Reaching for the Out of Reach (in theory):
Mr. Noah Kalina, photographer, San Francisco, circa September 9, 2008.
Reaching for the Out of Reach 44:
Surfers in the sea at Cape May, New Jersey, circa 1876.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 43:
“WEDDED for LIFE”, two trees in Pennsylvania, circa 1877.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 42:
Portrait of a bearded man, New York state, circa 1870.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 41:
A man holds two chimpanzees, Bronx Park, New York, circa 1887.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 40:
Two babies in a hammock, Lake George, New York, circa 1877.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 39:
Winter sun in the clouds of the Catskill Mountains, New York, circa 1865.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 38:
Two women let their hair down for a portrait, San Jose, circa 1876.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 37:
A path dug through deep snow, Wisconsin, circa 1875.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 36:
Peering through a telescope from Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, circa 1872.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 35:
A genuine Virginia home, circa 1880.
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Reaching for the Out of Reach 34:
Man working at a desk in a barn, Maine, circa 1875.
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