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Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.
All the pixels, but none of the comics, features, editorials, or news, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520
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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.
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] that tilt shift distorts the vertical in a very pleasing way. Great shot!
@[email protected] I interned/worked in a building like this a long time ago, and it was possible to feel the rumble of the running presses while still in the newsroom offices. Impressive. Great photo.
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The perspective effect you got reminds me of the set of this music video, where some things (blackboard) have an exaggerated pair of converging/diverging lines. (see screenshot)
Here’s the music vid…old, low-res, but it shows how good the band Powder was at staging, stagecraft, and stage presence. A great performance band. RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgVsk5BP26E