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I love this photo of the old Chorlton station. Its ghost rises again in the form of a new metro stop, which threatens to open any day now. The new metro line follows the old railway line route.
I found it when reading about Manchester Archive's historical photo project. They want help in pinpointing the location of the subjects in their photography collection. Browse the map here.
This image is of "Lunagrams (1851/2010), a series of photograms, negatives depicting a lunar phase from 1851 are illuminated by moonlight of the same lunar phase in 2010, providing a translation of images of the past into the present." (via Klosterfelde, Berlin). The exhibition is now finished, but I wanted to remember this process - of translation and repetition - and remember is as I embark on reading 'Difference and Repetition' this week.
These showbirds (and other series by Luke Stephenson, including the Clown Egg Register) speak to me of the eccentric in the everyday.
Five leading particle physics laboratories host a Particle Physics Photowalk on 7 August.
Link (above) has details.
The Observer gallery shows 19 of the 1,200 prints from Polaroid's archive which will soon be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York. This image is Walker Evan's 'Junked Car, Old Lyme, Connecticut' (1973-74) from a Polaroid Type 105 negative.
