Posts Tagged ‘history’
Then and now: building history
Jeff Gritchen documents Long beach as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram. One section of his blog is devoted to then and now shots of his district. Recently @ljthornton on twitter mused: Wouldn’t it be great to get communities involved in building sites like this? This is not just a documentation of the architecture and […]
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NYT Berlin Wall Coverage
The Berlin Wall Anniversary is generating some great multimedia coverage that combines reader generated content, archival content, and new reporting including great info graphics. The New York Time’s coverage over the last week has been great. It combines many of the image conversation techniques that I have been covering in this blog. Combining innovative, professionally […]
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Conversations with history
Flickr’s Commons gathers together a great collection of historic images from a range of museums and libraries from around the world. All the images are in the public domain and are copyright free. Using a slideshow from Flicker Common’s sets is a great way to add some history to a contemporary story. Flickr also allows […]
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