#accessible photography

[aspirationatwork]

Listen. Sit down around the fireplace with me for a moment.

Artists. Gif makers. People who like memes. Anyone who posts images.

Y'all have got to start writing your own image descriptions. You have to. You really really have to start doing it yourself.

Us, the blogs dedicated to accessibility, cannot keep doing it for you. Well, we can, but we shouldn't have to. We shouldn't have to dedicate our time and energy to make posts that are not ours accessible and you shouldn't expect strangers to do you favors, especially when the work is so thankless. For every post I describe, a hundred more are posted without one.

The original post should be accessible. Adding an image description through a reblog is a metaphorical bandaid when what's needed are metaphorical stitches. Someone's ability to access the internet should not be dependent on the goodwill of others and goodwill that can just be ignored at that. People can simply choose to not reblog an accessible version of a post, whether intentionally or out of ignorance.

We don't expect volunteers to construct temporary ramps for buildings, we expect the building to have its own ramp, built to code.

The next time you see or post art, or a meme, or a screenshot from Twitter, ask yourself- does someone with a visual impairment not deserve to know what this image is about? Why should you get to laugh at the joke and not them?

Just.....just do it. Just write image descriptions. There's loads of resources out there to help you and even more references from the people who care.

Just. Do it.

Start doing then.

Start telling other people to do them.

Start reblogging them.

Accessibility is a necessity and it is not optional.

#accessibility #artists on tumblr #original art #gifset #gif #meme #photography #aesthetic #daily memes

[sandpapersnowman]

Johnny Berchtold shot by ALLTHEDEADBOYS (Carter Smith), August 2023, serving us a safety pin necklace with three glow in the dark pony beads on it

(full photoshoot is HERE)

#Johnny berchtold #the passenger #allthedeadboys #Carter smith #I want to be the Carter Smith of nasty women's photography I want a dingey studio with a porno couch #where I take pics of scantily clad women looking bloody and bruised and hot #Anyway yes I paid real money to access all the pics and u should too bc they're Good #oh anyway this is for reference bc I'm 100% gonna make myself this necklace #also this is a cropped in version of the pic in the shoot bc I felt weird reposting paid content

[leonczolgosz]

A piano designed to be able to be played by the bedridden. Both the bed and piano are able to be rolled together for use.

If I understand correctly, it could also be used in the typical piano set-up, but if you weren't bedridden and had the option to play the piano from your bed, why wouldn't you?

#disability #disability history #accessibility #accessibility history #accessibility solutions #history #historical photography #medical history #historical photos

[jstor]

We can't stop staring at the cat's expression in this photo ca. 1900-1914. It comes from the National Library of Medicine's Images from the History of Medicine collection on JSTOR, featuring more than 40,000 open access photographs and illustrations!

#cat #cats #unit #chonker #pretty kitty #nurse #vintage photography #open access #research #jstor

[t0tentanz]

see me

#oc: vision #vision also got a BIIIIIG change #now that i have better access to mods #DONT LET THE EYES FOOL YOU #i may or may not have reworked this oc for the sole purpose of romancing a cute netrunner :3 #anywayzz #my edits #t0tentanz #virtual photography #cyberpunk 2077 #female v #cp2077 #cyberpunk #cyberpunk2077 #v cyberpunk #cp77 #cyberpunk phantom liberty

[celestdraws]

Daisy mornings. 2015.

#daisies #daisy #flowers #small #macro #white #pastel #lensblr #photography #accessible art #described art

[rnoonsetter]

i heard you like the color of the sky

#dear listeners #this was fun to do cos lots of these pictures are really old from when i started to get into photography #and some are very recent. the top one i literally took today #but ive been getting back into polaroids recently and i really do have a lot of great sky pictures #so i sorted through my stuff and found my favorites #moonsetter #polaroid impulse af #instax mini 11 #polaroid 300 #also one is v clearly heat damaged :< #theres a version that is fine afaik but i gave it to a friend so i don't have access to it right now #oh and almost all of these are local

[pazzesco]

Wendy Red Star🎨

Wendy Red Star and her daughter Beatrice

Wendy Red Star - “Apsáalooke Roses” pairs the artist as a child (right) next to daughter, Beatrice, (left) both wearing regalia at the same age, a nod to their intergenerational collaboration as artists & the matrilineal Crow nation.

Wendy Red Star - Indigenous Gaze

Wendy Red Star - HER DREAMS ARE TRUE - 2020 - LITHOGRAPH.

Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Red Star’s works across disciplines, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts and performance, to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonial structures. Red Star researches historic archives and oral traditions in order to incorporate them with her research to create new and unexpected perspectives. Intergenerational collaboration is central to her artistic practice, working frequently with her daughter, striving to create space for Native women’s voices within the context of contemporary American art. 

#Indigenous artists #native american artist #indigenous #Wendy Red Star #beatrice #accession #art #photography #photographers #apsáalooke #crow #lithograph

[leonbastralle]

📷 07.04.2024

#photography #nature #water #forest #photographers on tumblr #mine #slapping on some random tags in hopes itll make it searchable #that day was a lovely adventure and i had a great time handpicking and touching up some faves for tumblr #i honestly might do it again! as soon as i have access to my camera bc i do not back up my pictures (bad) and left it w my family jsfhksjdf

[genocidalfetus]

Elevators in DogTown are a mood...

#cyberpunk 2077 #virtual photography #vilem davydkin #male v #Vilem finally set foot in DogTown #He didn't like that Songbird muted Johnny nor that she can access the relic like she can #He's being nice to her but he doesn't quite trust her

[daguerreotyping]

Tintype of a pair of handsome drinking buddies, c. 1885

#I love the point when photography became cheap and accessible enough that people could afford to mess around like this #and I love the crooked cap and curls combo on the man on the right #19th century #1800s #1880s #19th century fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #men's fashion #19th century photography #tintype #ferrotype

[jstor]

"The Spell," a gelatin silver print by Henry Edward Gaze (1930s).

The photograph comes from the Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa collection on JSTOR, which features more than 46K open access images.

#spell #magic spells #spellcraft #witch #witchcraft #photography #vintage photography #art photography #henry edward gaze #black and white #gelatin silver print #beautiful and spooky #open access #research #jstor

[moodr1ng]

just learned about the people posting '19th century paintings' by a supposed "emile corsi", which is actually just ai art misleadingly and purposefully being represented as actual historical pieces, and i do think this is an issue for art history and culture that people are doing this (and that more people are being tricked into reposting these pieces under the belief theyre legitimate historical ones, furthering the lie).

however after looking it up a bit im finding that the only issue people have with this is that misrepresentation of art history. and id like us to also consider that many of these pieces are in the 19th-century orientalist style, in which white european artists fictionalized, fetishized and otherized swana people. and the use of ai art to create new pieces of a historical racist style (which still today colors the way swana people and our history are perceived in the west) should be as big a concern as the issue of fooling people into thinking an artist who didnt exist actually did. probably more!

(preemptive disclaimer that im not "anti-ai" and dont care about having that argument. post is about a racist thing. does not need derailing.)

#97 #emile corsi #i dont want to have any arguments about whether or not orientalist historical art is racist btw i will block you. #truth be told? there are orientalist pieces i like. theres one orientalist painting that is one of my favorites. #there does come nuance sometimes when your representation in art you have access to is so tied to your fetishization and othering. #(not just in historical orientalism - see also journalistic photography of swana people etc still using the same tropes) #i know this. i dont think its evil to like some orientalist pieces. we still must be aware that the art movement is inherently racist. #and there is a difference between enjoying some orientalist pieces by long dead artists with an awareness of the issues surrounding them #versus creating new orientalist pieces today and relying on biased racist ai models to do so!

[interdimentional]

#roof access #kodak easyshare #digicam #digital camera #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #photography

[undescribed1mage]

Go white girl go

#ride the cyclone #rtc #ocean oconnell rosenberg #rtc ocean #ocean rtc #ride the cyclone ocean #ocean ride the cyclone #you guys get 3 photos #thats it #my access to their photography google drive is so special actually

[unproduciblesmackdown]

fun connection on this archived kickstarter update from the 2011 production/s of "the bus" as found by @broadway-heere-i-come ft. many pics from their trip to wichita, kansas for several performances there, including this one

fantastic stuff & was noticing that it seems like partly legible lyrics back there, which sent me over to consult that q&a sincerely me vlog again like hang on lol. and sure enough

lo, behold

#giving ''every moment'' vs ''where a moment'' but i'm sure either is plausible just based on listening. anyone got a cd insert booklet #tragic that further pages of the kickstarter aren't waybacked up. may not have let you access them if not a backer? #lot of great stuff on page 1 though fr #will roland #hey beautiful #(the The Bus tag lol) #live it up!: #deh #maybe could've used a fourth take actually lmao. let's all watch the 6+ min ''interview'' w/those two seeing spamalot together #love the bit right at the start where someone asks what mike faist's hair smells like & will immediately launches into explaining what it #feels like & michael park is like oh yup. we've all been there. probably the more fun answer anyways #speaking of him b/c it's such a Journey of a video i never remember precisely when mike faist barrels through the door #get out!!! what were you thinking.... #used to keep forgetting it happened at all which was a delight. happens during the karaoke / singing in shower answer! #oh i also had the thought like. the Probably Non Phone Photography of 2011 here #noticed that like ''Portrait of someone near the camera with motion blur towards its focus point'' & also noted it as feeling like #a Stock Photo kind of phenomenon now decidedly Out Of Date. then thinking like well that might not be much of a coincidence lol #as in: it would be a spontaneous Photo Effect ppl were more accustomed to At The Time. maybe! #(just realizing fantastic grammatical ambiguity. i meant the ''including this one'' in the opening there to be going off of ''many pics #[...] including this one'' but that it can be interpreted as ''several performances there [...] including this one [will karaoke.jpg]'' #like wow works great either way actually lmao. no notes) #p.s. i dunno why some of the lyrics were bolded. did not enter any of the terms into the search. Watch You Smile While Sleeping emphasis