Fixing Shadows

Site:
http://fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU:80/~ds8s

Category:
Photography

Review (in 1996):

Fixing Shadows is a collection of mostly black-and-white, mostly historical, and mostly unmanipulated photographs.

Especially intriguing is the page devoted to "found" images, a sort of virtual lost-and-found for photographers. See if you can identify a mysterious 5x7 plate of "Maude", found in New Hampshire: or create a story for a picture of a young woman in turn-of-the-century South Carolina. Old tintypes (of children, babies, and dogs) are on display here. And the site's creator, J. David Sapir, seizes the opportunity to display some fascinating photos shot while doing anthropological and linguistic work in West Africa throughout the '60s. These photos depict chaotic scenes of ceremonial rites and mock warfare, as well as somber moments, like "Girl taps her iron clacker and sings for her brothers".

Fascinating photos.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.