{"id":415,"date":"2008-01-17T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=415"},"modified":"2009-10-09T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:05:45","slug":"library_of_congress_and_flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2008\/01\/17\/library_of_congress_and_flickr.php","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress and Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flickr<\/a> and The Library of Congress announced a project together<\/a> to put a whole load of the Libraries photos<\/a> up and to ask the public to create meta data for these photos – tags, notes etc.<\/p>\n

This is a phenomenal achievement for Flickr in my mind, looking through these photos there are some really absolutely amazing shots showing American life in the early 1900s, depression years, the war etc.<\/p>\n

I spent some time over lunch browsing some of these, the machinery, clothes, culture, cars, architecture, it is all just amazing I wish there were such a good record of the UK available to the public.<\/p>\n

Some of the images are just great to look at like the one below from 1911, that’s a hand held large format camera, amazing.

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Others show the truly amazing work that photographers did in those days and frankly makes me wish I can even come close to this kind of shot on my digital cameras.<\/p>\n

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Click on these images and look at them, they are phenomenally well done the richness and dynamic range of color in those shots far out paces the results I tend to see on digital.  I wish self developing color slides wasn’t such a pain else I’d start doing medium format color transparencies right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flickr and The Library of Congress announced a project together to put a whole load of the Libraries photos up and to ask the public to create meta data for these photos – tags, notes etc. This is a phenomenal achievement for Flickr in my mind, looking through these photos there are some really absolutely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}