Photographer: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
URL:http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/csas/00400/00448r.jpg
I spent awhile looking through some of the collections on the Library of Congress website. There are many great photos on the website from a variety of different photographers. I enjoyed looking through the collections and seeing the images the Library of Congress has collected over the years.
I looked at quite a few photographs, but really liked some of the photos I found in a survey of architecture collection in the south. The image I chose is a photograph by Frances Johnston of the Lion Bridge in St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida. I chose this image because I really like the leading line of the bridge. The reflection of the bridge in the water also adds some great detail to this photograph. The bridge also has a certain rhythm to it that carries your eye across it.This photograph was taken in between 1935 and 1936. After studying it I wanted to see if the bridge was still around so I went searching for a current image of the bridge and found out that it was almost torn down in 1999. However, they chose to restore it instead. The restoration was completed in 2010. Here is a current image of the bridge just in case anyone else was curious about it.
(This photo was taken by Destin Bradwell in 2012)
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