Thomas Hawk ✓
@thomashawk · San Francisco, CA · joined 22 Dec 2006
American Photographer — publishing one million photographs.
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@thomashawk Photos of America’s not so distant past should radicalize you beyond belief
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@thomashawk I lived in the suburbs and we would take the train in at Christmas to see Santa and have lunch at Marshall Field. I was 8 in 1972 and this takes me back to those magical times. Wow.
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Found Ektachrome Slide Dated, January 1972, State Street, Chicago, Illinois
I pulled this one out of the box and just sat there. Some slides you glance at and put back. This one I couldn’t stop looking at.
Christmas time on State Street, Chicago, Illinois
Bond’s big red neon h
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Written on the back of the photograph: "S.F. Beach, March 26, ’44"
She didn’t know D-Day was 72 days away.
She didn’t know the war still had a year and a half left.
She just knew the Pacific was freezing, the light was perfect, and someone she loved was standing on the sand h
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Tells me Lies I Love to Believe... https://t.co/x9XPGKdBNs
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@thomashawk Fantastic work.
Looking forward to what you choose to post from your library. I’m betting it’s a vast collection.
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@thomashawk Love that flash. Shows movement in one part, while the rest is still.
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I just asked Bentley if he wanted to go take a walk in the park…
He said YES!!! https://t.co/AjdHPDoFRo
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I’ve collected hundreds of photography books over the years. The good ones, the ones you keep pulling off the shelf. Fine art, street work, color stuff, early black and whites, New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, an eclectic mix.
I’m going to start posting some of my favorite ht
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@thomashawk I scanned many of my uncle's slides from the late 50's and early 70's. The colors are super vibrant. I don't know who most of the people are. But they are amazing! This is Pomona, CA 1963. A gentleman names Bob Ury and his bride. https://t.co/9df3cVJxl6
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@thomashawk Would you mind greatly if I use this in my weekend "Dave's Car ID Service" thread? Fantastic photos. BTW left car is a fairly rare 1942 Chevy Fleetline, right is a 1950 Buick Special.
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@thomashawk I love it when you post these "slice of life" photos from the past. Moments that seem as if they were completely forgotten by time, yet hold so much of the personality and fervor of the participants. I'm not sure why, but it makes me feel... better? Peaceful? Thes
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I bought a box of slides in a Los Angeles warehouse for twenty dollars.
Thanksgiving, 2019.
An antique store was emptying an old warehouse. Inside was a pile of Kodachrome that almost went nowhere. The woman selling it said the slides had belonged to a photographer whose house
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Against accounts of the same size
15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.
Median views1 922this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %2.88%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %4.29%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 922 | 924 | 2.08× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 2.88% | 3.62% | 0.80× |
| Engagement rate | 4.29% | 1.52% | 2.82× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
5.1K31 Aug
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4.4K3 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.46%31 Aug
4.29%
4.97%
8.21%3 Sep
9.78%
4.08%
3.51%
3.12%
5.39%
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6.70%4 Sep
3.98%
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7.03%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes72.3%12 242 in total
Reposts8.5%1 437 in total
Replies3.7%633 in total
Quotes0.7%112 in total
Bookmarks14.8%2 513 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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