It’s one of Nik’s filters for Photoshop, and I’ve recently been using it to redo the images in some of my old blogposts. When the posts deal with history and its ironies, that little technical change turns out to deepen the illusion of meaning in the image. So here’s a magic kit from six years ago, now used a little better after some adult help.
https://jonathanmorse.blog/2014/12/27/heraldic/
“Vienna — hungry child.” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014713460/. Restored in Photoshop. The photograph is undated in the Library’s record, but it was taken in the aftermath of World War I. The hunger, of course, continues. We are not to be sated.
Source: “Liberty Loans. Official Liberty Bond car, and tank,” Washington, 1918. Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016869097/. Post-processed in Photoshop.
Sources: New-York Tribune, 1 March 1918, page 9, and “Mrs. A. Ladenburg,” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014706437/. Images post-processed in Photoshop.
When the German ocean liner Imperator entered service in 1913, its prow supported an enormous bronze figurehead.
There, with opening wings, an eagle wearing the golden crown of the Holy Roman Empire faced forward to welcome wave-borne destiny. Gripping the world’s orb, he surmounted it, stretching strong eager talons all the way to its equator and impaling his slogan, Mein Feld ist die Welt.
Humbly, crouched, Ozymandias’s servant waited on him with paint.
Sources:
The poster: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_homes_and_gardens_(1913)_(14761672816).jpg. Contrast and color balance restored with Photoshop.
The ship: George Grantham Bain collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014694028/. Cropped and post-processed with Photoshop.
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