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)

“The people in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks and closed off from each other.”

The 25th anniversary edition of Subway was published last year.

(via:Casual Optimist)

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s NYC Spaghetti Alex Creamer.

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:

 

Below are some never seen before photos by Glen E. Friedman in his tribute to Adam Yauch.

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

The original one was tucked discreetly away in a subway station right near my old office at TIME Magazine. Legend has it that this tiny little space used to be a clandestine meeting place for KGB agents during the Cold War. It was here in this decrepit closet that they’d exchange microfilm and secrets about national security, like some creepy scene in “Marathon Man” or “Three Days of the Condor.” In any case, sometime in the 90′s, the place was opened up as a disarmingly intimate but incredibly cool dive bar (with an amazing juke box) that was decked out in entirely in Russian art and Soviet propaganda posters. It was just way too cool.

(via: Flaming Palbum’s 5 Great Missing NYC Dive Bars)

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)

All photos ©Kate Donnelly