I took the photograph below during one of my walks around Manhattan. Leo Weitz opened a rare book business in 1909. I don’t know if the storefront I photographed (on Lexington Avenue at about 90th Street) is his original place of business or even if it is still there, 20+ years after I took the picture. According […]
When I lived in New York, the city was revamping Bryant Park, the space behind the main New York Public Library building on 5th Avenue near 42nd street. The park was fenced off for a long time. The scene I recorded below in the photograph was probably early morning on a wintry Sunday. When newsstands are […]
My obsession with newsstands began with an oil painting that my Mom and I bought together. It is a wonderful piece that shows a scene, probably from the 1940s, where a man is buying a paper at a newspaper stand. I like that it inspires a nostalgic sense of time – the time of my […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: This is another in my series of watercolors from photographs I took in my wanderings around New York City. I think it was the red roof that caused me to snap the picture. Of course it was also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a chance to record one moment of an historic architectural project: […]
I’m still enjoying pouring over my photographs from days gone by. When I took my frequent walks around Manhattan during my 20+ years of living there, I was always on the lookout for the unusual. In New York City, that was not hard to find. Today’s watercolor experiment: I was always on the lookout for […]
There is one thing of which you can be certain: If you are looking for one esoteric shop in New York City, you can find at least a dozen of them. At least that was the case during most of the 20 years I lived there. Things gradually changed. For example, I used to have […]
Today’s experiment: I had such fun with yesterday’s trip down memory lane (also known as Lexington Avenue in Manhattan), that I looked for a photograph I took inside the Sutton Clock Shop. I found one: If I could have a wall of clocks of my own, it would look something like this. I would probably […]
I always loved clocks. Being an accumulator, clocks became a subject of my acquisitiveness: clocks themselves; books about clocks, about time; pictures of clocks and pictures of clock stores. Here is a photo of my time travel collection I used to have: When I used to walk up Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, I would love […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I may have mentioned that I really enjoy making the miniature pen, ink and watercolor sketches that I have been creating lately (Party House, Sea Food Building). I like several things about them: 1) they are small; 2) it is easy to correct mistakes; 3) they can be finished relatively quickly. I […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: My photography digitization project is providing me with grist for my watercolor experiments. I used to take a lot of walks around New York City, mostly Manhattan and Brooklyn. However, I really enjoyed my walks around Coney Island. The scenes I encountered there merged my interest in local architecture with my morbid fascination […]
