Jason Hill
@jasonedwardhill.bsky.social
Professor teaching about photography and visual culture; convalescent skateboard old-timer. Wrote a book about art and journalism against fascism. Writing a book about photography and police radio.
The situation over Media, PA tonight. The photograph undersells what I observed.
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The situation over Media, PA tonight. The photograph undersells what I observed.
TEHRAN, Iran—A sign in front of the U.S. Embassy, 1979. Photo by Gilles Peress.
June 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
TEHRAN, Iran—A sign in front of the U.S. Embassy, 1979. Photo by Gilles Peress.
Really can't thank you enough. So many great leads here. Chitra Ganesh too! Very excited about this framing for the course.
May 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Really can't thank you enough. So many great leads here. Chitra Ganesh too! Very excited about this framing for the course.
Alexei Leonov’s drawing depicting an orbital sunrise, 1965, from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
May 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Alexei Leonov’s drawing depicting an orbital sunrise, 1965, from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
Incredible stuff. This illustration from Kristian Handberg's essay on Leonov.
May 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Incredible stuff. This illustration from Kristian Handberg's essay on Leonov.
Just learned that Brian Wallis wrote one of my articles. What a shit show.
May 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Just learned that Brian Wallis wrote one of my articles. What a shit show.
Lots of little kids in the backseats of Huntington Beach SUVs googling "porn" these days. Good time to revisit Richard Meyer's brilliant essay "The Jesse Helms Theory of Art"
April 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Lots of little kids in the backseats of Huntington Beach SUVs googling "porn" these days. Good time to revisit Richard Meyer's brilliant essay "The Jesse Helms Theory of Art"
A year later another photographer, Ken Papaleo, got a shot of the same store, shuttered.
April 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A year later another photographer, Ken Papaleo, got a shot of the same store, shuttered.
Check out Elisa Leonelli's 1980 photograph of a Wilshire Boulevard camera shop: The Darkroom, opened 1938.
April 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Check out Elisa Leonelli's 1980 photograph of a Wilshire Boulevard camera shop: The Darkroom, opened 1938.
"During deconstruction of this nest, 635 artificial items were counted; 206 items were food-related, of which 32 (5%) showed an expiry date. From these dateable items, a picture emerges of what happened at this nesting site over the past 30 years"
Great paper in the links!
Great paper in the links!
April 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"During deconstruction of this nest, 635 artificial items were counted; 206 items were food-related, of which 32 (5%) showed an expiry date. From these dateable items, a picture emerges of what happened at this nesting site over the past 30 years"
Great paper in the links!
Great paper in the links!
"During deconstruction of this nest, 635 artificial items were counted; 206 items were food-related, of which 32 (5%) showed an expiry date. From these dateable items, a picture emerges of what happened at this nesting site over the past 30 years"
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
April 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"During deconstruction of this nest, 635 artificial items were counted; 206 items were food-related, of which 32 (5%) showed an expiry date. From these dateable items, a picture emerges of what happened at this nesting site over the past 30 years"
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"Death-dealing slugs in Wall Street bomb." 1920
(Source: Library of Congress)
(Source: Library of Congress)
April 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Death-dealing slugs in Wall Street bomb." 1920
(Source: Library of Congress)
(Source: Library of Congress)
This awful photograph from the halls of the FBI building is not new (a month old maybe?) but looking again it is striking how prescient and apt a gesture this was.
March 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This awful photograph from the halls of the FBI building is not new (a month old maybe?) but looking again it is striking how prescient and apt a gesture this was.
"Outdoor food market at Haymarket Square. Public protest saved the square from incorporation into an expressway." May 1973. 📷 Ernst Halberstadt.
March 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"Outdoor food market at Haymarket Square. Public protest saved the square from incorporation into an expressway." May 1973. 📷 Ernst Halberstadt.
"Eighth grade students from St. Bonaventure high school spend recess period picking up trash on beach near oil wells." May 1972. 📷 Gene Daniels.
March 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Eighth grade students from St. Bonaventure high school spend recess period picking up trash on beach near oil wells." May 1972. 📷 Gene Daniels.
"Commuters waiting for a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train in Philadelphia." 📷 Jim Pickerell. May 1974.
March 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Commuters waiting for a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train in Philadelphia." 📷 Jim Pickerell. May 1974.
Went to ICP Weegee show and my son asked why Weegee died so young. Then we saw this.
March 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Went to ICP Weegee show and my son asked why Weegee died so young. Then we saw this.
Police media weirdness in the Washington Star photo morgue at the DC MLK branch library. Thanks @shannonmattern.bsky.social for signaling this great resource!
February 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Police media weirdness in the Washington Star photo morgue at the DC MLK branch library. Thanks @shannonmattern.bsky.social for signaling this great resource!
Weegee, and his publisher, PM, distilling the modern picture press near to its essence, pure of violence or spectacle. Critique of form.
January 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Weegee, and his publisher, PM, distilling the modern picture press near to its essence, pure of violence or spectacle. Critique of form.
Kudos to Harry Kyriakodis for the genius movie of illustrating his knockout 2014 essay on the William Penn police radio antenna with a super lossy *ACME Telephoto* reproduction of Temple's Philadelphia Bulletin print (below)! Telecom archaeology all the way down. 🥰
January 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Kudos to Harry Kyriakodis for the genius movie of illustrating his knockout 2014 essay on the William Penn police radio antenna with a super lossy *ACME Telephoto* reproduction of Temple's Philadelphia Bulletin print (below)! Telecom archaeology all the way down. 🥰
"A 'pole' has been run through the hat of the William Penn statue at City Hall since 1947. The antenna is used for police and emergency communications."
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, February 20, 1962.
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, February 20, 1962.
December 17, 2024 at 5:48 AM
"A 'pole' has been run through the hat of the William Penn statue at City Hall since 1947. The antenna is used for police and emergency communications."
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, February 20, 1962.
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, February 20, 1962.