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Tim Greyhavens
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Photo historian, lover of art and life. Author of Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900. #photohistory www.timgreyhavens.com "I've never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." ~Daniel Boone
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The Seattle Monorail is a mile long.

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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
Happy World Photobook Day! What better way to celebrate than to look back at the beginning of photography and its growth in Washington State? It's filled with over 200 photographs that show the growth of the medium and its impact on our society.
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"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

🕊🐒 RIP Dame Dr #JaneGoodall.

The groundbreaking zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist has passed away, aged 91.
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I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
In 1883 #OTD, Cree photographer Richard Throssel was born in Marengo, Washington Territory, USA. Starting in 1902, he created a catalog of more than 1,000 images of the Crow People and their lifestyles.

#CrowNation
#NativePhotography
#RichardThrossel
Richard Throssel - Wikipedia
Richard Throssell (1882–1933) was a Cree photographer, who documented life on the Crow Reservation at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Famed Pictorialist photographer Eva Watson-Schütze was born #OTD in 1867. She studied art with Thomas Eakins, but she soon became a strong advocate for women photographers, writing, "I want [my work] judged by only one standard, irrespective of sex."

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Eva Watson-Schütze - Wikipedia
Eva Watson-Schütze (September 16, 1867 – 1935) was an American photographer who was one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession.
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It has some definite similarities with the U. S. Library of Congress Reading Room.
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Seattle professional photographer Adair Rutledge has a great new series called "Nashville Cardinals." It's about a pee-wee football team and "what it means to be a child and expectations for what it means to 'Be a Man'.” Outstanding work!

#documentaryphotography

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Adair Freeman Rutledge | Photographer | NASHVILLE-CARDINALS | 1
Adair Freeman Rutledge is a Nashville and Seattle based commercial and editorial photographer specializing in lifestyle and portraits.
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Such a wonderful and yet unusual portrait. Theo van Rysselberghe - Portrait of Irma Sèthe. 1894. Musée du Petit Palais. What's going on with the half-exposed person in the next room whose hand captures a strangely disproportionate amount of attention?

#neoimpressionism
#pointalism
#VanRysselberghe
For fans of early mobile photography studios, I just posted the initial results of my research about the Boston Railroad Photo Car. As many as 13 of these cars traveled throughout the American West during the 1890s.

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#photohistory
#mobilepotographystudios
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
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And then there's the question of "Exactly what was it I found in that reference that's relevant to the point I made?".
E. Jane Gay, who some historians identify as America's first lesbian photographer, was born #OTD. In 1889, she accompanied her future life partner, Alice Cunningham Fletcher, on an expedition to photograph the Winnebago and the Nez Perce Peoples in the West.

#LGBTQ+photographers
#womenphotographers
That is a very memorable description of a beautiful drink!