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Penelope Umbrico, 541,795 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 1/23/06, 2006.
I thought it peculiar that the sun, the quintessential giver of life and warmth, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D… and so ubiquitously photographed, is now subsumed to the internet – this warm singular object made multiple in the electronic space of the web, and viewed within the cool light of the screen.
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Photo of Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels by Jason Shepherd. Per Dia Art Foundation:
Sun Tunnels marks the yearly extreme positions of the sun on the horizon—the tunnels being aligned with the angles of the rising and setting of the sun on the days of the solstices. Today is the summer solstice, where the sun will set centered through the tunnels, and the sun will remain nearly center for about 10 days after.
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Eugène Atget, Pendant l'Eclipse. Ca. 1912, printed later by Berenice Abbott. Gold chloride-toned print. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Slowly wheeling, like the rays of a searchlight, the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across the sky.
Virginia Woolf, The Years.
