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Get Ready! Snow in the Mid-Atlantic
Stay safe, stay warm, and make sure you’ve updated your emergency plan, whether at home, at work, or protecting our cultural heritage....

Becky Fifield
Jan 21, 20161 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Dec 31, 20152 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Jan 22, 20142 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Aug 28, 20131 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Jan 30, 20132 min read
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(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...

Becky Fifield
Jan 28, 20132 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Dec 15, 20121 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Nov 30, 20122 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Sep 11, 20121 min read
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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....

Becky Fifield
Sep 3, 20121 min read
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Wanderlust Wednesday: Dusseldorf
Hallo Dusseldorf! Near the Kunstpalace. Last week found me in Germany and Luxembourg. Dusseldorf, like many cities affected by World War...

Becky Fifield
Aug 22, 20122 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Aug 1, 20122 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Jul 28, 20121 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
Jul 5, 20121 min read
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Wanderlust Wednesday – Siracusa
Siracusa. RL Fifield, 2007. I conjure Siracusa, and bite my lip. It’s wonderful. Layers of civilization created this hauntingly beautiful...

Becky Fifield
May 23, 20121 min read
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Hello? Phone Booths
I started photographing phone booths on my travels several years ago. Originally, phone booths were small bits of architecture and design...

Becky Fifield
May 18, 20121 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
May 14, 20122 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
May 13, 20121 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
May 9, 20122 min read
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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...

Becky Fifield
May 9, 20122 min read
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