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    A prisoner’s view at the Château de Duras in southwest France

    A prisoner's view at the Château de Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    At the cornerstone of Eliot Hall, now and then.

    Stonemasons rough in the cornerstone of Eliot Hall before the actual ceremony in May, 1912. | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Launch here: on the shores of Odell Lake

    Launch here: on the shores of Odell Lake, Oregon, night | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Big Four Pedestrian Bridge, night

    Big Four Pedestrian Bridge, Kentucky and Indiana, night | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Old ships meet new, Key West

    Old ships meet the new, Key West Florida | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Pier post, Sunset Key, Florida | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Night at 47th Avenue Farm's barn, Oregon

    Night at 47th Avenue Farm, Grand Island, Oregon | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    An eddy of calm off the Rotunde du Glacier

    An eddy of calm off the Rotunde du Glacier, Palais Garnier, Paris, France | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Hand-set rivets dance up the underside of the cupola crowning Palais Garnier.

    Underside of the cupola of Palais Garnier Opéra, Paris, France | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    The Hauser Library, today and in a smoky 1930

    The Hauser Library, today and in a smoky 1930 | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Reed College's first teachers, with Apple

    Yesterday and today photo merge: Reed College's first faculty in front of what is now Eliot Hall, in 1914. | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    The St Louis Arch soars up into the sky

    St Louis Arch soaring into the sky | © Matt Giraud Photography
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  • A prisoner’s view at the Château de Duras in southwest France. Marguerite Donnadieu wrote her first novel here, adopting Duras as her nom de plume in homage. And maybe even literally here, in this crumbling cage, when the words didn’t come and this was exactly where she was anyway, in a prison of language that despite its bars, offered a vision of escape where those same words could lead.
    A prisoner's view at the Château de Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • An X-ray view into not only a building, but its past: stonemasons rough in the cornerstone of Eliot Hall before the actual ceremony in May, 1912. And is that Buster Keaton supervising?
    Stonemasons rough in the cornerstone of Eliot Hall before the actual ceremony in May, 1912. | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • The sign says "Launch here," but to where? Back to earth? It sure looks awful far away from here, on the frigid shores of an icy lake on a distant planet.
    Launch here: on the shores of Odell Lake, Oregon, night | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • Nothing like 20 degrees and a icy wind whistling down the Ohio River to get the playful, space age Big Four Pedestrian Bridge to yourself.
    Big Four Pedestrian Bridge, Kentucky and Indiana, night | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • Before and after, then and now.
    Old ships meet the new, Key West Florida | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • Pier post, Sunset Key, Florida
    Pier post, Sunset Key, Florida | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • The 47th Avenue Farm's horse barn under a starry summer sky, itself a constellation in the dark rural night.
    Night at 47th Avenue Farm, Grand Island, Oregon | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • In a small gallery off the Rotunde du Glacier, an eddy of calm in the visual torrent that is the Palais Garnier.
    An eddy of calm off the Rotunde du Glacier, Palais Garnier, Paris, France | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • One of the most humbling things to realize about the Palais is that every last flourish and ornament and joint was done by hand. The ironwork skeleton of the building is no exception: Because they're hand cast, drilled and set, rivets dance up a beam supporting the cupola crowning Palais Garnier.
    Underside of the cupola of Palais Garnier Opéra, Paris, France | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • (i'm writing this caption in lower case and inside parentheses because we have to be quiet: we're in the south reference room in the reed college hauser memorial library circa 1930, when it was Brand Spanking SHHHHHH! er, just after it opened. sorry, ms. unger (the librarian in this picture) SHHH! I can't even say "reed" a little louder? because...? right: this is a library, not a snooker hall. but gee-willikers, it's smoky enough to be one, know what i mean?! i know, take it outside... )
    The Hauser Library, today and in a smoky 1930 | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • Back then, opening up an apple got you seeds and a snack: some of Reed College's first faculty in front of the Hall of Arts and Science (today, Eliot Hall), in 1914.
    Yesterday and today photo merge: Reed College's first faculty in front of what is now Eliot Hall, in 1914. | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • Like Icarus, the St Louis Arch soars into the sky, kisses it, and falls to earth.
    St Louis Arch soaring into the sky | © Matt Giraud Photography
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