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Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA. 2017. (fedia.io)

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Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA. 2017.

All the pixels, none of the ink or paper, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There's a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better uncorrected.

The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone "kid" and who says things like "bring me back a scoop".

The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The Inquirer building also housed (until a few years before they moved) their printing plant, making it one of the last major dailies where it was at least theoretically possible for an editor to run downstairs and yell "stop the presses!" if a major story came in. But I'll bet that didn't actually happen very often.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] it doesn't quite look real. It's like the inked backdrop to a gritty movie where a fearless journalist uncovers a cabal of crooked cops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] these LINES 😍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] A very evocative ‘Daily Planet’ use of perspective