The Digital Photo Archives Project is a cooperative venture between the Ypsilanti Historical Society and the University of Michigan Digital Library System. When completed the collection will contain approximately 5,000 photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. Images included cover people, buildings, homes, events, celebrations and other subjects. Click here to go to the web pages for the Digital Photo Archives Project.

Photographer Robert Frank immortalized them in "The Americans," a picture book of poetry and masterpiece of modern photography that changed the way we look at ourselves. Its main character: Detroit.

In creating "The Americans," Frank snapped 28,000 shots from 1955 to 1956 over the course of three road trips across the United States. The genius lay in editing the photographs down into 83 daggers, which he plunged into the heart of the Ozzie and Harriet myth of the 1950s.

I took a break from working on orders yesterday to join Mary Morgan in visiting the Gallery Project space on S. Fourth Ave., where artists are in the process of installing their pieces for a new show that starts tomorrow, December 10. I don’t normally cover (non-performing) art, but this exhibit is just so cool I couldn’t resist.

You can’t really tell from this photo, but when I took this picture of the sun, it was snowing. I was ready to head out the door to work, and just stopped long enough to take this on the run. I had never seen sunshine and snow at the same time. It’s very pretty, but pretty eerie at the same time.

juggling clubs

that would be barack hope, I think

Four fixBuffalo readers joined me this morning on the regularly scheduled Artspace neighborhood walk. We saw a number of really cool rehab projects in the neighborhood. Click into this flickr stream - Walking Artspace - for the latest pics.

Myra Klarman's photo set of trick-or-treaters downtown in Ann Arbor

roadside coffee stand; there must be more of a story

Detroit, July 1942. "Looking east on Farnsworth Street with the Rackham Memorial Building at right and Detroit Institute of Art on the left." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Arthur Siegel. View full size.

old mac in orange

photo history of Ann Arbor Masonic Temple, built 1920s, demolished 1970s

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the above photos are by Betsy Lewis , whose work is featured at the Tahquamenon Area Library in Newberry. The Mining Journal has an article on the exhibit. They had planned around an arts grant from the state (which was cut), but they are still holding an amateur photo contest. It’s the 4th annual and the theme is Trees. You can get more information about the contest right here, but even if you don’t enter, consider what Betsy has to say about trees:

Our economy, our recreation, our lives are dependent on trees. They build our homes, provide fuel, jobs, clean the air, provide respite for us and are home to many creatures besides us. They provide roots, they are flexible, they bend, they break, they change. They surround us and uplift us and inspire us to reach for the sky.

Almost every vehicle in this scene is of the horse-drawn variety. One motor vehicle is partly visible on the far right.

in the front of 826michigan

n conjunction with the exhibition Kenro Izu: Sacred Places , the Detroit Institute of Arts is organizing an online photo contest that invites DIA visitors, the online community, and the general public to submit photos that capture their interpretation of

photoshop used in the production of official state news

The strategy employed in the book was to simply publish as many shocking and horrendous photographs of the war as he could find and caption them with simple didactic phrases testifying to the brutal and ghastly inhumanity of modern warfare.

poetry from the bridge builder, plus 2100 construction photos of the bridge!

using consumer cameras create enormous panoramas from stitched together images, this site has a pan and zoom viewer

Ann Arbor Police Dept is looking for a person of interest - Andrew Robert Myrick, white male, 28 years old, 6", 200 pounds, heavy build, black shoulder-length hair and brown eyes. He should be considered armed and dangerous.

from the Library of Commerce collection; would love to see a rephotograph of this scene

photo of enormous number of troops in formation before they muster out to wwi

we all went to arbcamp and had a great time.

"punk rock robodonuts in the market"

"...and he stands, guarding the entrance to the Shrine like a Cerberus..."

how do you capture the wind?

But back to the enchilada festival, the event tends to draw the low rider and biker crowd. I don't know why that is except that they have a low rider car show. And not just cars but bikes too. Here's a photo of a low rider recumbent bike:

The fabulous ruins of Tiger Stadium

elvis puppet from last year's festifools

photograph of death valley sand

demo of algorithm that resizes photos by clipping a pixel at a time from "seams"

StickerBooks: 90 Stickers - in a book!

photo annotated highway travel routes w/arrows showing you where to go from 1907.

what are you carrying?

18 in line in Ann Arbor, Liberty St.

neat effects, neat guy

Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Our approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites (a), and automatically computes each photo's view

a flock of seagulls

take a picture and send it instantly? now that i have a camfone this is worth a try. (though flickr has my love)

postcards, business cards from hong kong

good meeting, 25 people. still perfecting the around-the-table intros, but fortunately that gets easier with practice. thanks Spencer Thomas for the photo.

sue takes photographs of her city with a film camera - love that analog aesthetic.

blog with daily photograph of omaha - nice way to do it, and the sidebar has daily photo blogs from all around the world

myra takes pictures of festifools, great shots of a great april fools day parade

Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes
Saturday, March 31, 11 am

A long-term study of idealized human-made landscapes by California-based artist Lyle Gomes, these poetic images of parks, golf courses, gardens, and garden cemeteries explore the enduring

We’ve created applications that can be controlled using a dance pad instead of the keyboard or mouse. We have StepMail which allows you to read, delete and flag your email and StepPhoto which allows you to organize your photos. Using these applications

pisum sativum

post photobooth to flickr in one step

Ed Shively is shown at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore last week, where he found bad ice and open water that forced him inland off the Lake Superior ice. He has ditched his sled and is now walking with his pack on snowshoes. The Minnesota man left Sault

The toy camera aesthetic turns its back on sterile technical perfection. Instead it celebrates the messy unpredictability and dreamlike imagery that only a truly rotten camera can provide.

Mark O'Brien's photography blog from Ann Arbor, MI