museumuesum:

Pirkle Jones

photographs from Portfolio Two, Published 1968

Breaking Wave, Golden Gate, San Fransisco, 1952, gelatin silver print, 10 x 13 1/4 inches

View of San Francisco in the Rain, 1952, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches

Figures in the Rain, San Francisco, 1955, gelatin silver print, 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches

Sunset District and Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, 1951, gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 13 inches

Breaking Wave, Golden Gate, San Francisco, 1952, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 13 inches

Cowboy, Arizona, 1957, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches

iheartmyart:

Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son. Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder

 My eldest son was born in 2001. He was always a kid who went to the beat of his own drummer. When he was 5, we began making photographs collaboratively as a way to find some common ground and attempt to understand each other. Soon after we began the project, Elijah was diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. Though the diagnosis gave me the words and history to understand my son better, it didn’t take away the mystery and the need to try to find an emotional bridge to him.”Echolilia” is an alternate spelling of a more common term, “echolalia,” used in the autistic community to refer to the habit of verbal repetition and copying that is commonly found in autistic kids’ behavior. I liked the idea of it: photography is a form of copying. Kids are a form of repetition. And looking at my kid with photography allowed me to see myself a new

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swissstash:

On May 13th 1958 Australian adventurer Ben Carlin became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 80,000 kilometres by land and sea. The vehicle named “Half-Safe” was a war surplus 1948 Ford GPA which he purchased from a government auction outside of Washington, D.C., for $901. Read more.