The map, accessed by clicking blue circles, offers a search and browse facility for Highsmith’s images, with most photos linked to a city or county. The Library is home to more than 70,000 rights-free photographs.
Carol Highsmith has been documenting the United States since at least the 1980s. Some 100,000 images of American people and landscapes have been donated to the Library of Congress, where they are Now the aforementioned Library has built a new interactive map, charting Highsmith’s archive.
The roving photographer has visited every single U.S. state and now web users can search and browse her photos on the easy-to-use map.
“After driving along America’s highways and byways for some 50 years, Carol has reached her goal of documenting each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico,” the Library of Congress writes on. “More than 70,000 rights-free photographs are available worldwide with more images to come as Carol revisits some of her favorite places. ”Most of the photos on the map, which can be accessed by clicking on blue circles, are linked to a city or county.
There are a small number that the Library only knows the state.
“It is almost unbelievable that it is possible for her physical being to have gone to all these places,” writes Vivian Li, the Library’s Innovator in Residence. “It’s fun to see both things that I recognize … and things that I don’t even notice. ”The Library of Congress calls Highsmith an “expert architectural photographer” who is able to find unusual vantage points of well-known landmarks, like the Golden Gate Bridge.
She takes photos of national parks, artisans, signs, historic houses, and many other images that capture American heritage.
“Carol calls her photographs ‘shiny coins,’ making it clear that her goal is to show the beauty and optimism present in the United States, especially as we reach the milestone of a 250th birthday,” the Library notes.after what she called “gross misuse” of almost 20,000 of her images. Essentially, because Highsmith’s images are in the public domain, Getty and other picture agencies were selling her images.
But in what Getty called “several misunderstandings,” Highsmith was actually sent a bill for using her own photos. The case was eventually
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