Tag Archives: black and white
Vintage Photo: Central Park News with Guy Pointing at Me circa 1990
Vintage Photo: Newsstand Series, New York City 1990
Photography was one of the first art forms that I fell in love with. I used to take my camera with me on my frequent walks when I lived in New York City. I used to seek out places photographed by famous photographers like Paul Strand, to see if I could reproduce their shots. It’s […]
Man Looking Very Closely at the Table
The subject of this portrait is the same man that I had to use shading to correct. I made certain that I accurately portrayed the proximity of the man’s nose to the table. I think this person may have been reading, but I didn’t see any book on the table. I don’t know what he […]
Line Design
Some parking lots have double lines that delimit parking spaces. This gives a properly-parked driver comfort that his (or her) door will not be bashed by another parker who pays attention to lines. The white line with the hairpin turn in the photo below, lies on two different substrates: asphalt and concrete. The composition is […]
Black on White
I took inspiration for today’s watercolor from yesterday’s photo (Black on Black). The skeleton caught in my self constructed La Brea tar pit is something like a horse. I’m not sure what the white squiggly lines are. Probably they are ancient symbols, or poetry for a long gone sacred animal.
Street Leaf
I love the textures in this photo and that it is rendered in black and white and in color.
Off Eye Level
In going through my archives, I found a couple of photos I took when I lived in Brooklyn, NY. I chose these two for the camera’s point of view. Although the sign above the record store (pictured below) was intended for maximal exposure (presumably), if one were not a curious photographer, I’m sure it […]
Somewhere in Brooklyn
I don’t know the vintage of the manhole cover pictured below. I took the picture in Brooklyn in early 1991.
Winter, Coney Island
This photograph is from the winter of 1990. I pieced it together from two photographs. It seems a little drab, but I like the isolation, the baseline from which emerge the crowds of summer.
