“The walls are like the billboards, the blackboards of the community. I think the evolution of those things is really interesting.” Camilo José Vergara
Camilo José Vergara’s photographs appear at the New-York Historical Society in two rotations: “Harlem: The People” until June 10 and “Harlem: The Place” from June 13-Sept.
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Shanghai, by Christian Stoll. Part of the series ‘Epic’. [article]
New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, c. 1929.
One of many superb photos of New York in the Municipal Archives. Very pleased that I managed to get this in my book! (Page 21 in the sampler.)
More here.
Stanley Kubrick’s Snapshots of the 1946 New York City Subway (Flavorwire)
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“Nightview, New York,” 1932, Berenice Abbott. [From: polis - Weiwei Meets Abbott at a Museum in Paris]
“They’re remarkable. They’re brutal. But they are also very beautiful.”
870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations now available to the public on the Internet for the first time, including crime photos.
Story (WSJ). Gallery (ES). New York City Department of Records.
Image: October 7, 1914: painters are suspended from wires on the Brooklyn Bridge
Office windows at night, Tokyo.
(photo © PD Smith)
Ernst Haas, London Reflection
Manhattan from the ferry, June 1998. © PD Smith.
New York, circa 1940, © Helen Levitt. Courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery and/or powerHouse Books.
View a slideshow of Levitt’s great street photos at Lens Culture.
Matthew Pillsbury, Towers of Light.
“I think many of us don’t question the role that the city plays in our daily lives when in fact we are in dialogue with it. Even beyond providing the stage/setting for our daily interactions, the city is actually a living character in our lives. We often comment on the role of the city when we find it oppressive (‘I need to get away this weekend’) but don’t realize that it’s a continual dialogue and that like any relationship it can be joyful, celebratory, or melancholic.”
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Susan Wides, Empire, Looking Down Fifth [December 6, 2005].
