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Another treasure trove of black and white photos from Vivian Maier, “a great street photographer who took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes during 50 years. Unfortunately, her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped until they were discovered by a local historian, John Maloof, in 2007. Following Maier’s death her work began to receive critical acclaim.” (source: Top Design Mag)
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Street photographer Helen Levitt captures young children at work on the streets of New York from 1938-1948.
Writer Phillip Battle explains: For over 10 years, Levitt documented the imaginative life of the children; at a time when children still had some visual independence and a keen-eyed interest in laying pictorial claim to the world around them. In today’s world of television and video gaming, that sense of ‘visual independence’ has all but vanished. All our monsters and dreams are laid before us in graphic detail and even in 3D!
Levitt’s book:
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Looking at this stunning collection by photographer Steve Siegel conjures up images of a gritty New York of old. Aren’t you just about certain Travis Bickle is on the next street over? (Source: the very cool We Heart.)
Photographs © Steve Siegel
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For Monday: The familiar neon sign of Fanelli’s Cafe which still stands in the nucleas that is SoHo. This photo from an interesting series of late 70′s and 80′s snaps by Carl Burton which I discovered on the fascinating Flaming Palbum.
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870,000 of ‘em. Never seen before. Photographs from the Municipal Archives collection.
In this Dec. 22, 1936, Works Progress Administration photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, a man looks at the Hudson River from the New York tower of the George Washington Bridge. (AP Photo/New York City Municipal Archives, WPA Federal Writers’ Project, Jack Rosenzwieg)
In this September 30, 1936, Works Progress Administration, Federal Writer’s Project, photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, a man hands a program to baseball legend Babe Ruth, center, as he is joined by his second wife Clare, center left, and singer Kate Smith, front left, in the grandstand during Game 1 of the 1936 World Series at the Polo Grounds in New York. (AP Photo/New York City Municipal Archives, WPA Federal Writers’ Project)
In this July 29, 1908 photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, workers dig in the street along the sidewalk on the north side of Delancey Street in New York. (AP Photo/New York City Municipal Archives, Department of Bridges/Plant & Structures, Eugene de Salignac)
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Always inspiring. A few shots I took last week in New York City…
“Girl Climbing”
“When the Dreamer Dies, What Happens to the Dream”
Looking up at the Standard
DVF/Bentley note.
Spring Street Subway Station
All photos ©Kate Donnelly
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“Robert Longo’s iconic charcoal drawing series Men in the Cities (1979) depicted businessmen and women in an ambiguous moment of flailing impact or ecstatic dance. These photos, Longo’s own, are somewhat demystifying in that respect but nonetheless striking as we see the choreography behind his subject matter; the artist directing his models to enact an instant when a bullet hits home and photographing them in free fall.
These multi-literal shoots took place on a New York rooftop and Longo asked his friends to dress in suits and pose, friends that included Cindy Sherman and Larry Gagosian who were young and perfectly positioned on the apogee of that era of art, ready to embrace a spirit of abandon, punk and irony.” (From : It’s Nice That)
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If you saw the movie, I Am Legend, Lucie & Simon’s “Silent World” collection might be of interest. In the photos, New York lacks the people and raw energy and instead displays a sole person or two in the frame. Other haunting images, pretty spooky walking around a city yourself eh (never know what lurks) includes the urban metropolis (sans any hustle) of Paris and Beijing.
(Via Flaming Palbum)
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Question: Is the New York Times Lens Blog ever off?
Answer: No.
“To me, they’re almost like a sleepwalker’s view of the city,” the filmmaker Jem Cohen said of the ghostly Polaroids he has taken of New York over the past 30 years. “I might walk around for a whole night, but only shoot one or two pictures.”
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Billy’s was dismantled Saturday to make way for a new brick building.
A few months ago, Billy told me he had no regrets — he was tired of freezing all winter in the tent and roasting all summer. He was hoping to have a space in the ground floor of the new building, but I don’t know if that worked out.
-Photo and text by Joseph Holmes/Joe’s NYC
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JOHAN ROSENMUNTHE cinematic series of shots called Enlargements weaves quite a narrative. What story or series of stories remains the mystery–yet we are the voyeur. Yes, seeing that nun is a bit Hitcockian and well, creepy without the bell tower.
Via It’s Nice That: It begins with one big shot of a Manhattan skyline before successively zooming, enlarging, and cropping different slices of the image, creating an eerie visual essay that leaves us wondering, among other things: “Is that nun going to jump?” Check out his website to see a multitude of equally fascinating photographic experiments.
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Shadows, black and white, landscape, at work, at play, the hustle and flow of Life Magazine’s Love Letter to NYC ; photos from 1940-1972.
