Histories of Newark: 1758-2008 & Studio projects Sunday June 10 2007 04:16 am
Citizens of Newark photos through June 2, 2007
We’ve finished the main effort toward taking citizens of Newark photographs. Here are the totals.
Scheduled hours included in photoshoots: 98
Total number of citizen photos taken: 5,054
Total file size of originals (color .jpg images): 6.86 gigabytes
Total number of retouched photos: 1,237
Total file size of retouched photos (black/white .tif images): 2.79 gigabytes
Estimated hours for retouching: 155
Total citizens (some in multiple images): 3,767
The design of the book includes a 1″ band that will run through the middle of every page of the book to include current citizens of Newark. A book on the history of the city doesn’t have room for the contemporary city and a lot of the old photos do not include much of the humanity that has gone into that history.
This citizen band was included to counter both of those problems.
While the effort in the citizen photography was far more than we anticipated the fun of doing it was also far beyond what we anticipated.
