Crowds #4: Religion July 20, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
Beach has so far offered up three crowd photo collections: August 1914, Speaking to Crowds and Crowds as Art. Today he thought he’d move in a little deeper with religious crowds from a small file he’s been building up over the last couple of years. The picture that head’s this post is one of his […]
Image: Pius XII in a bombed out Rome September 7, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Medieval
What would have happened if photography had been invented not in the early nineteenth-century but a hundred years before Columbus crossed the waters blue? Well, Beachcombing imagines Franciscan monks running around with tripods and dark rooms being built next to monastic kitchens. The Church would have monopolised this new technology, not as an art, but […]
