#puerto rican photographer

[ryoljj]

[thinkingimages]

DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971), Young girl after the Puerto Rican parade, N.Y.C. 1963

[blondebrainpowered]

Jean-Michel Basquiat. 1982

Photographer: James Van Der Zee

[yourdailyqueer]

Jax (Jackson McGoldrick)

Gender: Male (she/they in drag)

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 5 April 1997

Ethnicity: Puerto Rican

Occupation: Drag artist, reality star, dancer, photographer

[chibimats]

Priscilla Huggins Ortiz by photographer Ana Dias

[lostsoul999xx]

✨️Haven't shown my face in awhile so here's stuff from the last couple of months✨️

2 years changes so much, I still can't believe I'm 25 now 🍄💚🌞🦊

[darthskinnius]

Siouxsie Sioux, the doge (yes, and the Banshees)

📍San Juan, Puerto Rico Canon R6 Mark II

[kayshla19]

Style3597 by Kay ღ Lush ღ Photographer Via Flickr: thisiskayshla.blogspot.com/2024/04/style3597.html

[nekrifysi]

Pride//Prejudice

[ryoljj]

[buyamericancheese]

[onenicebugperday]

Puerto Rican velvet worm, Peripatus juanensis, Peripatidae

Photographed in Puerto Rico by wesgapp

[thingstol00kat]

Elle Pérez at 47 Canal

Gorgeous huge collages with photos, text, quotes, book pages, printouts, etc

[herpsandbirds]

Hello! Do you have any interesting Caribbean birds?

Why yes, I have an absolutely adorable little group of birds that live in the Caribbean...

Narrow-billed Tody (Todus angustirostris), family Todidae, order Coraciiformes, endemic to Hispaniola

photos by Jason Tiesman & José Miguel Pantaleón Inoa

Cuban Tody (Todus multicolor), family Todidae, order Coraciiformes, Cayo Guillermo, Cuba

photograph by Dušan Brinkhuizen

Puerto Rican Tody (Todus mexicanus), family Todidae, endemic to Puerto Rico

photograph by @engie_05

[darthskinnius]

Carpintero de Puerto Rico / Puerto Rican Wood Pecker / Melanerpes portoricensis

"The Puerto Rican woodpecker (Melanerpes portoricensis) is the only woodpecker endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico and is one of the five species of the genus Melanerpes that occur in the Antilles. Furthermore, it is the only resident species of the family Picidae in Puerto Rico."

Source: birdsofpuertorico.com

More info including audio: ebird.org

📍Boquerón, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico Canon R6 Mark II

[uwmspeccoll]

A Pigeon-fluencer Feathursday

This week’s post was inspired by a recent Guardian article on the rise of Pigeon-influencers on TikTok and their role in reviving the popularity of the oft-derided and underestimated birds.  

Throughout history, pigeons have provided sustenance (“squab”), labor (in the form of the “pigeon post”), and companionship to human populations. Though these days we may typically associate the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia, otherwise known as the common pigeon) with other animals classified as “pests” in urban landscapes, they are in fact understood to be the world's oldest domesticated bird. Historical documentation of pigeons can be found in hieroglyphic texts and art dating back as far as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. According to Colin Jerolmack, professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at NYU and author of The Global Pigeon, pigeons “have been in cities as long as we’ve had cities” and, prior to the technological innovation of the telegram, were “the most reliable messaging system in the world”. While “fancy” pigeons (like Frillbacks, English Magpies, Jacobin, and Archangel pigeons) were bred and kept as prized pets in the Victorian era, the North American Passenger Pigeon (or “wild pigeon”) was hunted to the point of extinction in the early 20th century.

To illustrate the complexity of our love-hate relationship with the birds we've selected a variety of illustrations and text from our collection and featured them alongside some images from outside sources.

The engravings in images #2 & #8 from The Illustrated Natural History: Birds (London: George Routledge & Sons) were created by the Brothers Dalziel, a wood engraving shop in Victorian London founded in 1839 and operated by George and Edward Dalziel. Image #1 from Birds of America; Fifty Selections (with commentaries by Roger Tory Peterson) (New York: Macmillan) is a reproduction of a hand-colored lithograph produced by the shop of J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia from a painting by naturalist and artist John James Audubon in the early 19th century.

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

Other image sources:

#3: Western Crowned Pigeon (Goura cristata) in TMII Birdpark - Western crowned pigeon - Wikipedia

#4: Keyla Rose with Tony, her pigeon, on a walk in New York. Photograph: Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian. August 23, 2024.

#5-6: from City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness Pigeons (poem) by Chicago-based Puerto Rican poet and community activist David Hernandez, DH+BH (image of tattoo) by Camilo Cumpian.

#7: Ceiling Fragment Depicting Pigeons in Flight | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) (ca. 1390–1352 B.C.)

#9: a Memorial to the extinct Passenger Pigeon at Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin (1947)

#10: from Nikola Tesla's Obsession with Pigeons, Electricity, and a Plan to Wirelessly Connect the World (nautil.us)