(from The Year In Pictures -- see below)
What's so neat about content-accumulating sites like Flickr (in addition to their "zeitgeisty" style of collective expression, see last post) is that they are archives of cultural artifacts as much as they are a digital public square. As we roll farther forward into the digital age, public digital archives by necessity move closer and closer in importance to their dusty, worm-eaten (and often privately/university owned) paper-and-vellum counterparts. James Danziger over at The Year in Pictures used Flickr to examine the peculiar and more-widespread-than-you-might-expect phenomenon of people sleeping on trains. (He then goes on to explore the cannon of train car photos -- great stuff. There are some amazing and totally classic Walker Evans photos you should see if you haven't already.)
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