as the bbc recently reported: …an american academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images. kalev leetaru has already uploaded 2.6 million pictures to flickr, which are searchable thanks to tags that have been automatically added. The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organisation. The images have been difficult to access until now…
check the internet archive book images here
see this related post
the very last house in the back of this picture (with two ladies stood on a high balcony) belongs to my father, the house in a tiny burgundy village named paris l’hopital was built in 1666 and this photograph was taken exactly 100 years ago at the outbreak of the first world war in 1914
when i visited my father recently, a close neighbour had seen the picture and realised that he had the very same wheelbarrow standing in his cellar… we checked and it is indeed the very same object… dad is now busy making a recreation of the same image 100 years later, with a borrowed chicken, local children & lots of patience… surprisingly little has changed in that time span
the absence of men in the picture can probably be explained by the outbreak of war… i will post the new image when it is complete
some more new work this week: the fourth part of the familie nederland poster series for local theater group slapelozen, i was interviewed by national newspaper ‘het parool’ recently on the subject of the future of theater posters and this series should also be published alongside the interview
note: (it will in fact appear in todays newspaper: wednesday 27/08)
a new image from my friend martin c de waal, who will be taking part in the 30 years of torch gallery exhibition here in amsterdam next month