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Valparaiso, Chile. Junio 2024

RETO Ultrawide, Kodak 400

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Cerro Barón, Valparaiso, Chile: The Baron Hill is one of the 42 hills of the city of Valparaiso, Chile. It is located on the east end of the plan of the city, next to the Dairy Hill, and is a purely residential area. Wikipedia

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valparaiso, chile 2010

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Amor eterno

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Photographer Stephen Shore

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Yo La Tengo - The Grotto, New Haven, Connecticut, October 23, 1987

The always-awesome Yo La Tengo is out there promoting This Stupid World in 2023, playing what some are calling the band's best shows ever to adoring crowds. It wasn't always that way! Not that this performance — another fantastic offering from the Alex Butterfield Archives — isn't killer. It's just that not many people at The Grotto seem to really know much about Yo La Tengo. You can almost count the hands clapping. "How ya doin', New Haven!!!" Ira Kaplan shouts, rock-god-style, at the outset, to a thoroughly muted response.

The band (then consisting of Ira, Georgia and bassist Stephan Wichnewski) had just released their second LP New Wave Hot Dogs and much of the set is devoted to ferocious versions of tunes from that (kinda underrated?) album. There are also plenty of covers, of course — a vicious "A House Is Not A Motel," "For The Turnstiles," Antietam's "Orange Song" and a ripping "Rip This Joint" to close things out. Also some rarities, like an Ira-sung "White Rabbit," which would show up about a decade later as "Demons" in a Georgia-led recording for the I Shot Andy Warhol OST.

And then YLT oblige a request for Ride The Tiger's "Cone Of Silence" — a request made by our taper himself. This stupid world might not have been quite ready for Yo La Tengo in 1987, but they were getting somewhere.

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Evelyn Hofer, L train station, New York, 1964

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Tony Vaccaro. Reconstruction, Nuremberg, Germany, 1948

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Arcade, 1968. Photograph by Fred Herzog.

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Alt color

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Wire Magazine archives from 2005

Negatives taken on the beach in Brighton, Electrelane’s hometown 

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No Shouts, No Calls tracklist

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MGM messenger girl on main street of the Culver City lot (Hollywood, Cal.). 1948. Ruth Orkin. Gelatin silver.

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Rocío Sagaón photographed by Nacho Lòpez

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Between 1872 and 1894, five inclined plane railroads were constructed in Cincinnati.  They provided easy access to the hilltops at a time when residents of the city’s overcrowded basin were eager to escape its industrial smog and cramped living conditions. Feeding the rush to develop the surrounding hillsides, the expansion they made possible was so rapid that by the 1920s, they were beginning to be looked upon as traffic bottlenecks. A far flung suburban population, the Great Depression, the introduction of the automobile, and lack of proper maintenance sealed their fate.  The era came to an end in 1948, with the closing of the Mt. Adams Incline. Click here to browse more images of inclines on the Digital Library. 

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Bastiaan Woudt

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