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  • The New Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Detroit Publishing Co., between 1900 and 1910
  • Burkburnett, Texas, the world's wonder oil pool, showing 8 months phenomenal development, viewed from the northwest side, opposite Fowler farm, original discovery well and swinging towards the northwest
  • Panoramic photograph of Baltimore fire, E. Chickering & Co., ca 1904
  • Panorama Austin, Texas, Haines Photo Co., ca 1910
  • Panama-Pacific exposition, general view and group portrait, R. F. Sanford, 1915
  • Construction of Panama Canal, May be Culebra Cut, ca 1913
  • Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, Verne O. Williams Photographic Co, ca 1918
  • B.I.V. from Black Bear Mountain, F. Chain, N.Y., H. M. Beach, ca 1911
  • 112th Engineers, Col. J. R. McGuigg, commanding, Camp Sheridan, Ala., Richards Film Service,1917
  • Waterfront, Detroit, Mich., Detroit Publishing Co., ca1905

Footnote2: Frank van der Stok

Transhistorical Coincidence

– August 6, 2021

I was intrigued by each of the nearly 8,000 panoramic photographs I went through because there is no particular focus. Instead, our gaze is being dispersed along a space-time continuum. I find it tantalizing that the eye is unable to arrive at a synthesizing gaze. Because panoramic photographs cannot be incorporated easily in the back-end, I have chosen to include a selection of 4 x 5” (raw) recordings of loc.gov’s reproduction department. Here we could speak of desirable environmental noise in a renewed and ambiguous spatial constellation.