CursiveBuildings

October 25

Reaching for the Out of Reach 49:

A man watches the snow fall in Central Park, New York, March 1916.

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October 16

Reaching for the Out of Reach 48:

Explosion of an ammunitions wagon, Boer War, circa 1901.

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October 10

Reaching for the Out of Reach 47:

Photographer and phantom pets at Pinogana, Panama, circa 1870.

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September 23

Reaching for the Out of Reach 46:

Hippopotamus feeding in Central Park, New York, circa 1883.

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September 21

Reaching for the Out of Reach 45:

City folks on the promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, circa 1895.

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September 19

Simply Beautiful: Reaching for the Out of Reach

“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)