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Re: The Library of Congress Panorama Collection
northwest_omnipresence 2005-Oct-08 18:49:00
wow, caroling, what a cool idea!
i thought it was neat to just make a MOV file from the panos i'd seen
on the American Memory site, but to do a now and then series, thats
awesome.
its so odd to think that when the original photo was taken, on the
one your site used, there probably was no airfield there, yet your
current photo shows it is there now.
I have seen a few images from other countries on the American Memory
site, but i continue to wish my own country had something comparable.
Photography is not an essentially american artform, yet it sure seems
that way sometimes.
--- In #removed#, Caroling Geary <#removed#> wrote:
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> In 2000, people from the quicktime-vr list were finding photos
from
> the American Memory site that matched their own and taking then
and
> now panos. That is, they photographed the same site as it is now,
> from the same point of view. I wonder if they are in the list
> archives somewhere. Also, Steve made a sprite that would track one
> pano to the other. So spinning the old pano would spin the new one
as
> well. Mine is not technically perfect, but shows the concept:
>
> http://www.wholeo.net/Trips/Art/Web/TripsArt/Imagine/RitualSpaces/
> GaiaPoint/return/reTurnInSync.htm
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> On Oct 8, 2005, at 12:46 PM, northwest_omnipresence wrote:
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> > I have taken a look at some (not all) of the past posted entries
in
> > this group and did not see anything about the Library of Congress'
> > collection called "American Memory".
> >
> > There you will find over a century's worth of cylindrical
panoramas
> > taken between 1851 and 1991! Unfortunately this collection is
only of
> > the United States, but still, as a historical resource for
> > photographers, it is quite an amazing view.
> >
> > Here is the URL for the collection:
> > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/
> >
> > I stumbled across it earlier this year, and still find myself
> > returning to look. The site navigation is somewhat confusing, but
> > after a few unnecessary (imho) clicks, you will the TIF and jpg
full
> > size scans of the images taken with traditional "film" cameras
from
> > 150 years ago till a decade ago.
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