George Lawrence - Go Fly a Kyte
- Posted:
- January 30th, 2008
- Peter
Slashdot has a nice item on an attempt to reproduce the work of Kyte-Photographer George Lawrence. In 1906, after the San Francisco quake, Lawrence used a rig of kites to fly a 46lb panoramic camera over the devastated area to record the destruction. He did that same thing three years later to show the success of the rebuilding process. You can find out more about Lawrence’s work and view his amazing images at activetectonics.asu.edu and robroy.dyndns.info. The guys attempting to reproduce his work in 2006 had to cheat a little and used a helicopter because, they had to get an authentic replica of Lawrence’s camera to the same vantage point as the 1906 shots in modern-day San Fancisco. The final result is stunning and makes for fascinating comparison to Lawrence’s 1906 images.