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Top 10 Reasons The Commons on Flickr is Awesome

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

I promised a follow-up after we’d been in The Commons for a while, so here you go. Top 10 Reasons The Commons on Flickr is Awesome: 10. George Oates is cool and George runs The Commons. 9. Come together now: … Continue reading…

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Flickr Commons: Begin at the Beginning

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Deirdre Lawrence

We have just joined The Commons on Flickr to share a selection of images with the Flickr community and to begin our partnership, it seemed appropriate that we start at the beginning! William Henry Goodyear was the Museum’s first Curator … Continue reading…

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Flickr Commons: High Resolution and what does it tell us?

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

We join The Commons on Flickr today and do so in a manner we hope will start an interesting discussion. Our Principal Librarian, Deirdre Lawrence, has posted about the collections we’ve uploaded and I’m going to write a little about … Continue reading…

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Fireworks! The Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th anniversary

Posted on May 17, 2008 by Deborah Wythe

A recent post on NYC Social alerted us to the Brooklyn Bridge’s upcoming 125th anniversary celebration (May 22nd-26th), featuring fireworks on the 22nd. Fireworks have to be one of my favorite NYC treats, from the 4th of July to the … Continue reading…

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Modern Coney

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Patrick Amsellem

Lynn Hyman Butler, American, born 1953. The Girl with a Gun. From the series “Coney Island Kaleidoscope” ca. 1988. Cibachrome color print. sheet: 11 x 13 3/4 in. image: 9 x 13 1/4 in. Gift of Ilford Photo Corporation. 1991.59.6 … Continue reading…

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A Coney Island Renaissance?

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Patrick Amsellem

As many of the postings on Flickr illustrate, images of Coney Island frequently capture a gritty and often sadly neglected landscape. But this kind of urban exploration, especially of an area like Coney, which has always attracted a broad range … Continue reading…

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Different Takes: Take 2

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Following up on this earlier post, our new video has just been published to our YouTube feed. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!

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Different Takes

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

For the past several months, we’ve been working with filmmaker Matt Wolf on an upcoming video project. The video is in the final stages of editing, but I wanted to take a moment to write about the process. When we … Continue reading…

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Classic Coney Rides

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Patrick Amsellem

It’s great to see all the amazing contributions to the Flickr group for Goodbye Coney Island?. This is proof that Coney Island still attracts photographers from all over, as it did since its early beginnings. Amateur photographers went out to … Continue reading…

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Join the “Goodbye Coney Island?” Flickr Group!

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Eleanor Whitney

I am very excited that Patrick Amsellem, curator of photography, is working with us on a web project in conjunction with the Goodbye Coney Island? exhibition he curated in the Luce Visible Storage-Study Center. We have created a Goodbye Coney … Continue reading…

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