Library of Congress Photos

The LOC just created a great Flickr set entitled FSA/OWI Favorites with the following blurb.  Check it out.

"FSA/OWI Favorites” features 10 of the most frequently requested photos plus 15 staff selections to introduce you to the vast archive of about 170,000 negatives and 107,000 prints of life in America during the Great Depression and World War II.

Go to the FSA/OWI Collection in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) at LOC to explore more of these amazing photos by gifted photographers who worked with 35mm and large format sheet film. The digital resolution for most images is admittedly low, since the scanning was done in the mid-1990s.

Ting Ting Xu

Here's some work by a recent graduate of Parsons School of Design's MFA program.  How does Tingting Xu do this??  I really want to know! The only information I can find on the her web site about her work is:

"She engages in an ongoing search for meaning expressed through visual symbols.  She seeks the paradoxes and contradictions in single objects like those as tiny as a bubble, which are reflective of events and ideas as gigantic as the cosmos.  Her work is visually symbolic of the concepts most resonant to herself, those of transformation and resurrection."

That's very nice but unfortunately doesn't answer my question.  Oh, well.

Love it!