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Photo Opportunities by Corrine Vionnet

Each image contains about a hundred images taken from photo-hosting websites. They are brought together in transparency layers, and only the important segment of the image is used as a meeting point for all pictures of the place.

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The National Archives have launched two online, searchable databases.

  1. Domesday on a map - searchable by postcode and includes 90% of the places mentioned in the Domesday book. 
  2. UK history photo finder - A collection of 14 000 photos from the 1920s - 1940s.

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Deana Lawson. Assemblage. 2010. Installation view at MoMA PS1 as part of the Greater New York 2010 exhibition (May 23–October 18, 2010). Photo by Matthew Septimus The work includes a diverse collection of images, ranging from early twentieth-century ethnographic studies to iconic photographs of celebrities and historical figures, as well as the artist’s own family photos. They include pictures of Haile Selassie appealing to the League of Nations in 1936, Jack Johnson’s 1915 loss by knockout in Cuba, Kurt Cobain, anonymous Congolese dancers, and the wedding of Lawson’s Aunt Karen. Branching out from one corner of the gallery, the photographs create what the artist describes as a “biological mass,” reflecting “a visual regeneration of human histories and futures.” Click the picture for a video interview with the artists on the MOMA blog and the full article.

Deana Lawson. Assemblage. 2010. Installation view at MoMA PS1 as part of the Greater New York 2010 exhibition (May 23–October 18, 2010). Photo by Matthew Septimus

The work includes a diverse collection of images, ranging from early twentieth-century ethnographic studies to iconic photographs of celebrities and historical figures, as well as the artist’s own family photos. They include pictures of Haile Selassie appealing to the League of Nations in 1936, Jack Johnson’s 1915 loss by knockout in Cuba, Kurt Cobain, anonymous Congolese dancers, and the wedding of Lawson’s Aunt Karen. Branching out from one corner of the gallery, the photographs create what the artist describes as a “biological mass,” reflecting “a visual regeneration of human histories and futures.”


Click the picture for a video interview with the artists on the MOMA blog and the full article.