100 Years of History Unearthed at The New York Times Morgue
In a basement three floors underground, next to The New York Times’s headquarters, steel filing cabinets hold about six million photographs that are part of The Times’s morgue.
I think I might have recommended this to you before. It's a short British teevee series from 1999, in three one-hour parts, titled /Shooting the Past/, about an archive of photographs. The story develops slowly and gradually grips you. It's wonderful and sad and surprising.
About /Shooting the Past/: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_Past Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRP5IphiTE Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmAJQUs9LQ Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBl29ajrZk
Also on the subject of an archive of photos, and one photo in particular, /The Secret Life of Walter Mitty/: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty_(2013_film)
I think I might have recommended this to you before. It's a short British teevee series from 1999, in three one-hour parts, titled /Shooting the Past/, about an archive of photographs. The story develops slowly and gradually grips you. It's wonderful and sad and surprising.
ReplyDeleteAbout /Shooting the Past/: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_Past
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRP5IphiTE
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmAJQUs9LQ
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBl29ajrZk
Also on the subject of an archive of photos, and one photo in particular, /The Secret Life of Walter Mitty/:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty_(2013_film)