Friday, 27 February 2015

Meet the Woman Creating a Complete, Copyright-Free Visual Record of America

Meet the Woman Creating a Complete, Copyright-Free Visual Record of America


Carol M. Highsmith is sometimes called "America's photographer," and for good reason. Determined to capture all 50 states in exhaustive, obsessive detail—"the nation's most ambitious visual record since the Depression"—she's been donating virtually all of her shots, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress since 1992, where they comprise a rare, one-person archive of some 30,000 images.

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