• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    2 days ago

    This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There’s a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better uncorrected.

    The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone “kid” and who says things like “bring me back a scoop”.

    The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
      3·
      2 days ago

      The Inquirer building also housed (until a few years before they moved) their printing plant, making it one of the last major dailies where it was at least theoretically possible for an editor to run downstairs and yell “stop the presses!” if a major story came in. But I’ll bet that didn’t actually happen very often.

      • Michael Matute@infosec.exchange
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        2 days ago

        @mattblaze@federate.social I interned/worked in a building like this a long time ago, and it was possible to feel the rumble of the running presses while still in the newsroom offices. Impressive. Great photo.