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Becky Fifield
- Dec 31, 2015
- 2 min
An Unfortunate Title for a “Great” Article on Penn Station
David W. Dunlap writes the rather fun Building Blocks column for The New York Times. On December 30, 2015, his contribution was titled...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 22, 2014
- 2 min
Wanderlust Wednesday: Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Redux
Better known as the PATH, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad began shuttling passengers through its cast iron tunnels between Manhattan...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 28, 2013
- 1 min
Wanderlust Wednesday – Taormina
A few photos from a trip to Taormina, Sicily. It was early March and nearly desolate of tourists: perfect. Vegetation on the way to the...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 30, 2013
- 2 min
Book: The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski
It’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...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 28, 2013
- 2 min
(Music Plays) Lydia, The Tattoed Lady – An eighteenth century woman’s tattoo
The New Yorker Photo Booth blog highlighted tattoed women and a book about them Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 15, 2012
- 1 min
A Winter Space in Which to Think
We are thinking today of the families and communities scarred by yesterday’s events in Newtown, Connecticut. I’ve changed my post this...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 30, 2012
- 2 min
New York at Night
RL Fifield. 2008. It’s something about the light of shops shining out onto the sidewalks, people wrapped in coats, the tall buildings...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 11, 2012
- 1 min
Transportation Tuesday: A Moment on the Baltimore and Ohio
I was inspired by this salted paper print from the 1850s of people posing for a photograph on a Baltimore and Ohio engine. I thought...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 3, 2012
- 1 min
Happy Labor Day
Lewis Hine’s photographs will always remind us of the successes of the Labor Movement. The title of this image is Addie Card, 12 years....
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 22, 2012
- 2 min
Wanderlust Wednesday: Dusseldorf
Hallo Dusseldorf! Near the Kunstpalace. Last week found me in Germany and Luxembourg. Dusseldorf, like many cities affected by World War...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 1, 2012
- 2 min
Wanderlust Wednesday: San Francisco
The Cable Car Power House. RL Fifield, 2009. San Francisco is the city where I started to learn to look, compose, and photograph. I feel...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 28, 2012
- 1 min
Eadweard Muybridge – Gridded on my mind
I wrote those words “gridded on my mind” years ago in a short story, the protagonist describing herself as the antagonist’s Eadweard...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 5, 2012
- 1 min
Off 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...
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Becky Fifield
- May 23, 2012
- 1 min
Wanderlust Wednesday – Siracusa
Siracusa. RL Fifield, 2007. I conjure Siracusa, and bite my lip. It’s wonderful. Layers of civilization created this hauntingly beautiful...
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Becky Fifield
- May 18, 2012
- 1 min
Hello? Phone Booths
I started photographing phone booths on my travels several years ago. Originally, phone booths were small bits of architecture and design...
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Becky Fifield
- May 14, 2012
- 2 min
Museum Monday: Why Museums Don’t Have Pictures of Everything on Their Websites
I 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...
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Becky Fifield
- May 13, 2012
- 1 min
Mothers Montage – An Homage to Mom
In 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...
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Becky Fifield
- May 9, 2012
- 2 min
Road Trip – A Snapshot from the Lincoln Highway in Illinois
Preserved original stretch of the Lincoln Highway, between Rochelle and Geneva, Illinois. RL Fifield, 2005. First designated in 1913, the...
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Becky Fifield
- May 9, 2012
- 2 min
Road Trip – A Snapshot from the Lincoln Highway in Illinois
Preserved original stretch of the Lincoln Highway, between Rochelle and Geneva, Illinois. RL Fifield, 2005. First designated in 1913, the...
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