Becky FifieldJan 21, 20161 minGet Ready! Snow in the Mid-AtlanticStay safe, stay warm, and make sure you’ve updated your emergency plan, whether at home, at work, or protecting our cultural heritage....
Becky FifieldDec 31, 20152 minAn Unfortunate Title for a “Great” Article on Penn StationDavid W. Dunlap writes the rather fun Building Blocks column for The New York Times. On December 30, 2015, his contribution was titled...
Becky FifieldJan 22, 20142 minWanderlust Wednesday: Hudson and Manhattan Railroad ReduxBetter known as the PATH, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad began shuttling passengers through its cast iron tunnels between Manhattan...
Becky FifieldAug 28, 20131 minWanderlust Wednesday – TaorminaA few photos from a trip to Taormina, Sicily. It was early March and nearly desolate of tourists: perfect. Vegetation on the way to the...
Becky FifieldJan 30, 20132 minBook: The Look of Architecture by Witold RybczynskiIt’s a little bit untrue to title this small volume solely a book. It caught my eye while I was perusing the stacks last week at the New...
Becky FifieldJan 28, 20132 min(Music Plays) Lydia, The Tattoed Lady – An eighteenth century woman’s tattooThe New Yorker Photo Booth blog highlighted tattoed women and a book about them Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and...
Becky FifieldDec 15, 20121 minA Winter Space in Which to ThinkWe are thinking today of the families and communities scarred by yesterday’s events in Newtown, Connecticut. I’ve changed my post this...
Becky FifieldNov 30, 20122 minNew York at NightRL Fifield. 2008. It’s something about the light of shops shining out onto the sidewalks, people wrapped in coats, the tall buildings...
Becky FifieldSep 11, 20121 minTransportation Tuesday: A Moment on the Baltimore and OhioI was inspired by this salted paper print from the 1850s of people posing for a photograph on a Baltimore and Ohio engine. I thought...
Becky FifieldSep 3, 20121 minHappy Labor DayLewis Hine’s photographs will always remind us of the successes of the Labor Movement. The title of this image is Addie Card, 12 years....
Becky FifieldAug 22, 20122 minWanderlust Wednesday: DusseldorfHallo Dusseldorf! Near the Kunstpalace. Last week found me in Germany and Luxembourg. Dusseldorf, like many cities affected by World War...
Becky FifieldAug 1, 20122 minWanderlust Wednesday: San FranciscoThe Cable Car Power House. RL Fifield, 2009. San Francisco is the city where I started to learn to look, compose, and photograph. I feel...
Becky FifieldJul 28, 20121 minEadweard Muybridge – Gridded on my mindI wrote those words “gridded on my mind” years ago in a short story, the protagonist describing herself as the antagonist’s Eadweard...
Becky FifieldJul 5, 20121 minOff to Chicago!The cracker that didn’t crack – still, it made for good times and great photos. At Havre de Grace, where the Susquehanna turns into the...
Becky FifieldMay 23, 20121 minWanderlust Wednesday – SiracusaSiracusa. RL Fifield, 2007. I conjure Siracusa, and bite my lip. It’s wonderful. Layers of civilization created this hauntingly beautiful...
Becky FifieldMay 18, 20121 minHello? Phone BoothsI started photographing phone booths on my travels several years ago. Originally, phone booths were small bits of architecture and design...
Becky FifieldMay 14, 20122 minMuseum Monday: Why Museums Don’t Have Pictures of Everything on Their WebsitesI hear the occasional grumble. Why is that photo of that object so bad? Why isn’t there an online database? Why are only selected objects...
Becky FifieldMay 13, 20121 minMothers Montage – An Homage to MomIn honor of Mom, here are photographs of my mothers, from my own mom, to a couple of my great great great grandmothers. Even if old...
Becky FifieldMay 9, 20122 minRoad Trip – A Snapshot from the Lincoln Highway in IllinoisPreserved original stretch of the Lincoln Highway, between Rochelle and Geneva, Illinois. RL Fifield, 2005. First designated in 1913, the...
Becky FifieldMay 9, 20122 minRoad Trip – A Snapshot from the Lincoln Highway in IllinoisPreserved original stretch of the Lincoln Highway, between Rochelle and Geneva, Illinois. RL Fifield, 2005. First designated in 1913, the...