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New Orleans Street Walker Evans
Image by Infrogmation
1935 FSA photo by Walker Evans.
Via Library of Congress website here, no info other than description "New Orleans Negro street. Louisiana".
I've taken the highest resolution TIFF, converted it to .jpg and cropped it.
Location.... Hm. Any help from other good historic New Orleans fans here?
Clues: Look at the highest resolution, and in the distance at the end of the street is a cupola, almost certainly of the Cabildo (Presbytere was without one at the time). To the right of the rightmost telephone pole is the tower of Jax Brewery.
From that, Treme area, somewhere between Conti and St. Philip...
Wall at the right: Of St. Louis Cemetery #1? Or along the banks of the Carondelet Canal? Either way, this area is no longer intact; in the next few years the Canal was filled in, much of the area demolished for the Iberville Projects, and much what escaped then a bit further downriver was later demolished for Armstrong Park.
Note the 2 steeples at left. Further one-- St. Louis Cathedral, I think. Nearer one-- Hm, wrong shape to be St. Augustine. Our Lady of Guadalupe? Was there another church in this area at the time that ain't there no more?
FSA photo, public domain.
Mercury, God of commerce and speed
Image by Southernpixel - Alby Headrick
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This statue hangs in the foyer of the old Douglas Produce Building on Morris Avenue in the Historic District of Birmingham Alabama.
"I think it is Mercury, God of commerce and speed. It hangs in my office building" said jflint
"It was in the original Tutwiler hotel" said Jay Brandrup. Jay Brandrup and Jeremy Flint (jflint) are with Kinetic Cimmunications
The link for zoomify is dead I hope to fix this later - To see a High Resolution version of this 3 exposure HDR, made with a really cool CS3 tool check out zoomify it loads quickly, as you zoom in give it a second or two to re-draw and shows the detail very well. Thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/26027644@N00/ for his help with post production and CS3 zoomify.
