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Rendered at 21:18:13 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
p.s. AI assisted search to the rescue: "The factory visible in the photo was located in the 11th arrondissement, near the intersection of rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt and rue du Faubourg-du-Temple."
link has pic of the same location today: https://marinaamaral.substack.com/p/the-first-photo-of-an-in...
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0: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Barricades_rue_Saint-Maur._Avant_l%27attaque,_25_juin_1848._Apr%C3%A8s_l%E2%80%99attaque,_26_juin_1848.jpg
1: https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/paris-reportage/premiere-photo-barricade-histoireHopefully this line noise goes to the right place: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8707602,2.3734964,3a,75y,261...
?? Works for me. It's the second pic right after the 1848 one. See "The same place today:"
The chocolate factory is the building right after the white building with orange sign in the modern version. Same exact silhouett. So that building in Paris is almost 200 years old.
Edit: I have no idea how well these deep links to old street views actually work but here are a few of them:
2015: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8707604,2.3734989,3a,75y,271...
2016: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8707572,2.3734939,3a,75y,269...
2024: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8707802,2.3735089,3a,75y,271...
I've seen this photo before but never with any historical context, other than its significance as a photography milestone.
That site explains the context of it as a news photo relatively well.
I can think of few things that would give me more pleasure. Perhaps I am not sufficiently "modern."
Unfortunately the site has no picture of the published newspaper print of the engraving of the photograph.
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2014/01/15/26015255...
1906 "Ruins of San Francisco, 2,000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking the waterfront"
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/01/14/07823u-1-edit_cu...
a 49-pound camera raised above the bay with a train of Conyne kites
The exposure time of these kite photographs must have been quite short, given the obvious instability of the platform. They're very detailed, nonetheless.
A few googles reveal much detail about the process including that it was used up to 1990s
Then again, financial news doesn't really lend itself to photojournalism. A photo isn't going to make the story of a bankruptcy or merger more believable. The rest of the media would show an exasperated trader on the day of a market crash, but at the level of traders some will benefit from a bull market and others will benefit from a bear. So it's just pointless showing the photo.
I always liked the hand drawings of people referred to in the stories.
But apparently it drives engagement because people can't sustain their focus on text-only media?
I'd love an extension that classifies images and somehow blocks stock photos or keeps anything that's not a photo like charts and graphs. For crime and police stories, not that I regularly stumble upon those, I want to see the real crime scene or the real perp, but not a stock photo of a police tape or a judge's gavel. If everything is "off", I wouldn't know what I'm missing.
Instructions here: https://www.ou.edu/class/webstudy/n4/old/N_Auto_Image_Loadin...
:)
And that cheeky little online book store that Jeff Bezos dude is running from his parents' garage: Keep your day job, but also make time to go over there in person and figure out a way to give him all of your money for as long as he'll take it. He'll want to keep calling all of the shots and that's fine. Let him.
Made me think of how I dislike articles, " often from newspapers " that seem to add (often several) photos only weekly related to article content when in my opinion only a few ( 1 or 2 ) are useful. I use a Image on/off extension, and only load images when I'm reading an article and it seems "... interesting enough ..." A side effect of such a browser extension is it reduces PC .resources. I also sometimes save a page with out images ..
I did too. It was distinctive, tasteful, and understated. The style is called Hedcut:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedcut
It seemed to be a stylistic choice that kept the focus on the cooking lore and knowledge rather than making the magazine about food porn. Their “cooking tips” section continues to be drawn in pen-and-ink style.