The HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey) photographs of the Ennis House that I completed for the LA Conservancy’s conservation easement program have been featured in a new book by Pia Licciardi and Leslie M. Freudenheim called Frank Lloyd Wright | The Man Who Played With Blocks. In this “Short Illustrated Biography” published by Royalston Books, my photos are…
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Photography for HABS, HAER and HALS Documentations
HABS and HAER documentation of historic sites explained by photographer Stephen Schafer of HABSPHOTO.com
PRE and POST Apartment Photographs
Here's a couple of pre and post photos from a recent project in Los Angeles. What once was a massive rail yard is now housing. Taylor Yard After Taylor Yard Before Stephen Schafer HABS/HAER Architectural Photography www.habsphoto.com Related articles Architectural Photographs PRE and POST
Acronym Day: New HABS HAER HALS album on APT website
Just uploaded a few choice Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) photographs to the Association of Preservation Technology (APT) website. Stephen Schafer is a HABS Photographer based in Ventura, California. 805-652-1000
HABS on HIGH -Sonoma Blue Wing Inn Survey
While the rest of the visitors to Sonona taste wine and cheese, we’re surveying the Blue Wing Inn Adobe to add to the HABS documentation from 1934…
The “F”-word & The HABS at the Edge of America
One of the most interesting HABS photography projects in a while took me to the bottom edge of America last week to photograph the San Ysidro Customs House in San Diego at the Tijuana border… a cram-me-into-a-corner-with-a-camera affair.
Talented Masons, Opium Pipes, and a Big Hole in San Francisco
A year ago I spent a drizzly couple of December days doing a HABS-like documentation of a handsome brick building on Natoma Street in Downtown San Francisco…
The brick buildings are gone, the bus ramps are gone, the Pfleuger Terminal is gone and construction proceeds day and night; but opium pipes and porcelain doll heads from the 1880s keep telling stories.
HABS-Like Photographic Documentation (out-takes)
So I thought I would share a few views that were “off the list” on some of the HABS and HAER and HALS jobs I’ve been doing lately…