>>Few pictures of Hurricane Sandy captured both the enormity of the disaster and the unquenchable spirit buried deep in the city’s core better than the image of Jane’s Carousel, the glass-enclosed merry-go-round on the waterfront near the Brooklyn Bridge, taken at the height of the storm. The photo shows the dark water lapping at the horses’ hooves, with the eerie blacked-out lower-Manhattan skyline in the background, and the festive riderless ponies twinkling merrily in the bright yellow light. Originally posted on Instagram and picked up by CNN, the picture was seen all around the world; at one point that night it was at the top of Twitter’s trends.<< (Read more:
The New Yorker)
...wauw...de kracht van Instagram...
maar ook: irritatie! - ik probeerde het origineel te vinden op Instagram, maar kijk, ineens hebben tig mensen deze foto 'gemaakt'... lang leve de digitale fotografie?!
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| Screenshot Instagram foto's met 'Jane's Carousel' |
Getipt via de Nederlandse fotografe Heleen Mees op Twitter:
@HeleenMees '
During the storm I could see both Jane and her carousel from my window'
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