no do-overs

it was a beat down Washington dc

hot summer twilight evening

was wandering alone in the hell hole

of trinadad new York avenue crack days 1986-1988

searching for the left over remnants of the 1960s

motel world dying days of an america

that will never return to it's glories...

lonely, lonely by myself and an analogue film camera

with expired out of date color shifted slide film

bad processing non digital can't change anything

stuck with the exposure you made

in that time and place one shot does it

no do-overs

Nuclear Motel

Hidden Washington

ANS has been busy lately. Our Archive Division has been reformatting old images from it's photo Imaging Department and posting them onto our Flickr account. At some point this series was discovered by local Washington DC residents and given favorable reviews on a local Blog or two. We are pleased to report that so far our Flickr account has received over 400,000 hits as a response. Here are a sampling of some of the images found in the set "Hidden Washington".

6th and K Auto Market

Lennox Motor Company

Atlas Theater H Street NE

Downtown Motel

Flickr

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The Earth

History in Photodocumentation

Starting almost 25 years ago our photo imaging division began a documentary photo project creating images of people, places and things that seemed at the time to be relics of a bygone era that neede to be documented for the future. How quaint it seems today to think that you do something that will be more relevant 20 years into the future than it does in the contemporary. But that is how we thought back then. We saw a fading world but were not sure what it meant. Now we know--it is the faded glory of America. A common theme here at ANS. We presentbelow a sample of our work:

Continental Federal Building-demolished

Clarendon Motor Court-Demolished

Joyce Motors-Still in business (68 years)

Who's got it?

Dart's Got it!