Resistance Cartography
a blog imagining the possibilities of creating time portals
at the intersection of photography, mapmaking, and data visualization
Finding Joel Sternfeld’s Domestic Workers Waiting for the Bus, Atlanta, Georgia (1983)
Where exactly did the photographer make his famous 1983 scene
of three housekeepers on a suburban Atlanta street?
Clues inside the picture helped me track it down.
Rephotographing Walker Evans in Atlanta
In 1936 Walker Evans spent a single day photographing an Atlanta neighborhood. Nobody knew exactly where. I found the spots where he placed his tripod.
Gaussianograph: Oakland Cemetery
Oakland Cemetery was founded in 1850 as Atlanta Cemetery, six acres of ground on the outskirts of a brand-new railroad town.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Olmsted took his years of wandering through nature, and asked himself, how can people in cities be given the chance to wander too?
Resistance Cartography
Between the false and the unusable lies the vast gray area of cartography.