Pug Event at Alice Austen House, oh and post 1,000

[Stevenmarc]

OK I wanted to do post 1,000 in the Photography Group and I also thought it would be fitting to show pics taken at the Alice Austen house's Pug Day. Alice was a photographer in the late 1800's

http://www.aliceausten.org/


Just a little note on how I took the pics, I used a monopod that I held upside down with a shutter release so the camera was more on pug level.

[Celebration]

1. Wow!

Love the pugs, of course. That last pic is the best, to me. Either yours or a stranger to enter in the competition. Do you have a pug?

I had never heard of her. But this is a well thought out #1000 post. She sounds great.

Alice also took an extensive series of photographs - almost as a professional assignment, at the request of Dr. Doty of the U.S. Public Health Service - of the local Quarantine Station in the early 1890's. During this time, half a million immigrants a year were sailing into New York, as the greatest mass immigration in human history got under way. The immigrants were admitted through the newly-built (1892) federal station on Ellis Island, but before they were allowed to enter the harbor, all ships had to pause for inspection at the Quarantine Station just south of the Austen house. To provide additional space for quarantine facilities, two small islands off the eastern shore of Staten Island were enlarged with landfills. The work of the Quarantine Station so fascinated Alice that she returned with her camera, year after year, for more than a decade, to record the equipment, laboratories, buildings and people of Hoffman and Swinburn islands and the shore station near her home. These particular photographs reveal her natural instinct for photojournalism. Alice's reluctance to abandon a photographic subject until she covered it thoroughly can be seen in this exhaustive series of pictures that were commissioned and then exhibited in Buffalo at the Pan American Exposition of 1901.

[Stevenmarc]

2. No pugs, but 2 beagles

The pics don't really show the the house off, but it overlooks NY harbor. I'll have to post some of the location shots at a future date.

[Mira]

3. Congratulations. On your 1000 posts and the beautiful photos in a spectacular

setting full of history. It was fascinating to read about her. A woman of substance and great used talent.
I like the photos, great color and I almost understand how you did that. I think the boy and Pug-vader would be a real consideration for "Portrait of a Stranger". The glasses add a twist of folly in my opinion. I love that shot.

[Stevenmarc]

6. Thanks

Alice was a woman way ahead of her times and certainly deserves to be better acknowledged for her contribution to photographic history.

I have a couple of pics that I really like for "Portrait of a Stranger" and I have a feeling it's going to come to a coin toss.

[JeffR]

4. Great pug's-eye views.

Good shooting!

[JeffR]

5. And congrats on 1000!

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