Today, George Payne offers Rochester Skyline
Photography by George Payne (and others where mentioned with links to related articles by George and others)
The panorama-city is a ‘theoretical’ (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
see The Spirit of Corn Hill Lives: Photographing Rochester’s Most Historically Diverse Neighborhood
see Celebrating the roses of Maplewood. But like Sam Patch, Talker is Gorged

The dropping of the roses, pedestrian bridge at Genesee Crossroads Park, Memorial Day, 2016 from Memorial Day, Peace and Rembrance, and roses floating in the Genesee
see Memorial Day, Peace and Rembrance, and roses floating in the Genesee
see Remembering the Jewish past of Joseph Avenue
see “Looking at the Genesee River” by Kitty Jospé
see Story teller and author William Pruitt joins our literary conversation
see Austin Steward’s Legacy is the Pride of Rochester
see 172 years ago when the Millerites trudged down Cobb’s Hill
see Jill Gussow’s homage to the raucous crows of the South Wedge
see Ford Street’s Reward: The Genesee Riverway Trail as Urban Sanctuary

from For Golisano Children’s Hospital with love at the inaugural Gran Fondo at the Twilight Criterium
see For Golisano Children’s Hospital with love at the inaugural Gran Fondo at the Twilight Criterium
see Michelle Turner rejoins our visual conversation with more on the Rochester Subway
see On the 22nd of October, 1844 on top of Cobb’s Hill

Photo: Jim Barclay, 1999 [owned by David Kramer] from On Spanish-American War monuments in Rochester. And remembering the Buffalo Soldiers on Veteran’s Day
see Providing hope for the homeless in the back alcove of Rundel Library

Reproduced in 1973 by HISTORICAL URBAN PLANS, Ithaca, New York from a lithograph in the Cornell University Library. This is number 208 of an edition limited to 500 copies. [Owned by David Kramer]
see Frederick Douglass in Rochester: a gallery of images and words