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February must be New York photo month (in my mind). I just stumbled across Greenwich Village Daily Photo; more of modern day NYC flavor.
More delicious old photos of the 1970-80s are on Matt Weber’s site.
Whoa; midtown and uptown storefronts signs, ye’ neon and font signs of old. This site is a little archival gem.
The multi-talented New Yorker Jorge Colombo steps up his game with his NY1x1 tumblr (a small sampling of images below).
Boys Don’t Cry as shown by the looks of these Bruce Davidson photos of a New York street gang in 1959. These make the Outsiders look almost fabricated or recycled as art imitates life and vice versa. (*source: Flavorwire).
Stanley Kubrick’s photos of the 1940′s; gritty realism, composition and lighting.”He shot on the sly, often times his camera concealed in a paper bag with a hole in it. Of the some odd 10 000 black and white photographs he took while working at the magazine, VandM chose a total of 25, which have now been made available as prints.” (via: mash Culture)
A newly arrived immigrant eats noodles on a fire escape, NYC / USA.
Taiwan native Chien-Chi Chang documented the plight of illegal immigrants in New York’s Chinatown, and returned, with several of his subjects, to photograph family members left behind in rural China.“I have an emotional stake in ‘Divided Lives,’” Chang wrote of the project. Before coming to the U.S. in 1991, he had heard endless stories about New York’s immigrant community. “I discovered a different reality where many Chinese were delivered at great personal sacrifice into a life of indentured servitude, fear and extortion.” (source: lagu)
“The Photo League students take their camera anywhere . . . they want to tell us about New York and some of the people who live there . . . there was almost a sense of desperation in the desire to convey messages of sociological import.” - Beaumont Newhall, 1948
At The Jewish Museum (November 04, 2011 – March 25, 2012)
Summer, Beach, Playground, Boy Scouts, Hazing Air, Slides, Stoops, Graffiti, Brownstones, never doubt New York.
“Photographer Danny Lyon spent two months snapping pictures of the daily life in the borough — exploring Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Green and Park Slope among other neighborhoods” (more photos here)
Friends: Photographer David Leventi gets it. It’s the quiet New York, a bit clean, but still neon and coloured. From dusk til dawn; the city that never sleeps. I like to think of each of his shots as a story; I have about a dozen for both Odeon; maybe six for Schillers and the Empire State Building holds its own….
Paul McDonough writes a great piece for the Paris Review about the years leading up to his decision to photograph. These are raw, street photographs that capture the true essence of New York. It’s truly an unbiased lens; the subjects merely present themselves.
Excerpt:
“Manhattan, now as well as forty years ago, was a walker’s city. I could wear out a good deal of shoe leather crisscrossing the streets of midtown, with detours into Central Park where Mayor Lindsay had just recently opened up the grassy areas that drew great crowds. The energy level of New Yorkers rushing to and from their myriad destinations (and they do move faster here than in any other city) was galvanizing. The minor—and major—dramas of the city were the main attraction. People in New York were different.”
It was the sheer quantity of people on the street that made the spectacle unique. There were so many opportunities; you had to be perpetually alert and believe something was going to happen. You were not looking for photographs, but for the raw material that would make you want to photograph; the gesture or expression that demanded to be recorded. You were in the moment and you didn’t judge or qualify. For example, in the 1973 photograph taken at a parade, two business men are perched like statues on standpipes, trying to see over the heads of the crowd that had momentarily parted. They were serious; they had a sense of purpose. About what, the photograph doesn’t give a clue. That information is outside the frame’s viewpoint and beyond the camera’s scope.”
Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968–1978 will be published by Umbrage Books on November 4. An exhibition of McDonough’s work will be on display at the Sasha Wolf Gallery from November 4, 2010 to January 8, 2011.
If you haven’t had time to check in with From Your Desks lately, I recently talked to James and Karla Murray about their vanishing store fronts, graffiti and their pit bull, Tabasco. We also see their workspace and what is up and coming.
Hey, I know blogs stack up like magazines; so many, so little time. But the creative minds involved is too good to miss.
Therefore, I implore you…
