Here’s some highlights from my Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation of the First Street Viaduct over Glendale Boulevard from October, 2016.
Author: HABS HAER Photographer Stephen Schafer
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Highlights: 9430 Wilshire Blvd. May-2016
Here’s some highlights from my documentation of 9430 Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills… Often the images in the HABS, HAER and HALS collections take years to be digitized…
Photographer’s Eye: Capturing History Forever, Photographing for the Historic American Buildings Survey
HABS, as the Historic American Buildings Survey is informally called, is arguably the best documentation program in the world for historic buildings. Stephen Schafer has been practicing this archival photographic process to capture sites in California as diverse as an 1840s adobe and a Cold-War stealth ship.
HABS HAER and HALS PHOTOGRAPHY EXPLAINED
Pleas note this is and abridged version of the HABS HAER HALS Frequently Asked Questions section on my website here: FAQ The Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record and Historic American Landscapes Survey are US federal government programs administered by the Heritage Documentation Program Department of the National Park Service (abbreviated HABS/HAER/HALS). Photographic…
Goldilocks and the 3 Shots…
Once upon a time, there was an architectural photographer named Goldilocks. She went to a job in the forest to take three shots for a local architect. Pretty soon, after Siri took her down a few dead ends, she came upon the house in the trees. She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked…
Marketing Tune-up for Photographers with Stephen Schafer
Teaching a mini-marketing class at LACP on Sunday. I hope to see you there! INFO: https://lacphoto.org/events/marketing-tuneup-for-photographers-with-stephen-schafer-march-17-2019/ ••• HABSPHOTO.com Stephen Schafer, Photographer Ventura, California 805-652-1000 schaf@west.net •••
HABS/HAER/HALS Documentations from 2017 and 2018
A selection of my favorite large format negatives from the last couple years of Historic American Buildings Survey photography (HABS). By Stephen Schafer, Ventura, California, (805)-652-1000
UCLA Clark Library Wins California Preservation Foundation Design Award. Congratulations Architectural Resources Group! https://californiapreservation.org/ucla-library/
HABS GUY
HABS/HAER/HALS and Architectural Photography in California, Oregon, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam… (Getting the truck to Guam is always a trick)
HABS Mitigation for CEQA (Part 1: Is Cheaper Also Better?)
Documentation of historic resources is one way to mitigate impacts to significant properties and photographic documentation is one facet of a comprehensive CEQA mitigation strategy, and donating it to the National Park Service through their informal donation policy is less expensive than distributing multiple archival copies locally. The data created for HABS/HAER/HALS requires a Life Expectancy of over 500 years… Can your local historical society do that?