File:Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California LCCN2013631540.tif
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DescriptionPart of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California LCCN2013631540.tif |
English: Title: Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California
Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.; The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wrapped with wire mesh and coated with mortar, the main supports are embedded with pieces of porcelain, tile, and glass, and are decorated with found objects. Rodia called the towers Nuestro Pueblo.; Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063). |
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Date | Taken on 3 January 2013, 13:06 (according to Exif data) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Image title | Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California.
The towers themselves were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato ("Sam" or "Simon") Rodia in his spare time over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954. The sculptures' armatures are constructed from steel pipes and rods, wrapped with wire mesh and coated with mortar. The main supports are embedded with pieces of porcelain, tile, and glass. They are decorated with found objects, including bed frames, bottles, ceramic tiles, scrap metal and sea shells. Rodia called the towers Nuestro Pueblo ("our town" in Spanish). Rodia bent much of the Towers' framework from scrap rebar, using nearby railroad tracks as a makeshift vise. Other items came from alongside the Pacific Electric Railway right of way between Watts and Wilmington. Rodia reportedly did not get along with his neighbors, some of whom allowed their children to vandalize his work. Rumors that the towers were antennae for communicating with enemy Japanese forces or contained buried treasure caused suspicion and further vandalism. In 1955, Rodia gave the property away and left, reportedly tired of the abuse he had received. He retired to Martinez, California and never came back. He died a decade later. |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
Camera model | NIKON D800E |
Author | Photographer: Carol M. Highsmith |
Exposure time | 1/320 sec (0.003125) |
F-number | f/10 |
ISO speed rating | 100 |
Date and time of data generation | 13:06, 3 January 2013 |
Lens focal length | 42 mm |
Width | 4,912 px |
Height | 7,360 px |
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Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Image data location | 30,702 |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Number of rows per strip | 7,360 |
Bytes per compressed strip | 216,913,920 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Ver.1.00 |
File change date and time | 21:40, 24 January 2013 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 13:06, 3 January 2013 |
Shutter speed | 8.321928 |
APEX aperture | 6.643856 |
Exposure bias | −1.3333333333333 |
Maximum land aperture | 3 APEX (f/2.83) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 7 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Focal plane X resolution | 204.84020996094 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 204.84020996094 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 4 |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 42 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Scene control | None |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Subject distance range | Unknown |