Vintage Photo: Harris Supply, NYC, Selling Air Line Parts 1989
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Vintage Photo: Trattoria Dell Arte, NYC 1989
Storefront at Night
I began with pencil, inked the main lines and added color to finish the sketch. The most satisfying part of this process occurred when I drew the framework. In this composition. the framework was the structure holding up the windows that formed the storefront. As I sketched the contents within the store, I experienced the […]
Street Photographer’s Dream
When I lived in New York, I carried my camera everywhere. Those were the days before cell phones, when cameras were not ubiquitous. I was always on the lookout for something unusual. Once I talked to someone who said she only looked where she was going. I had a hard time understanding that. When I […]
Graffiti and Posters
Today’s watercolor experiment: I have been looking through my archived photos of New York City street scenes. Most of them qualify for membership in my graffiti series. Today’s snapshot, like yesterday‘s, pictures graffiti on a corner of a building. One wall of the corner building is decorated with series of ripped up posters; the other corner […]
Graffiti for Rent
Today’s watercolor experiment: It was wintertime in 1991. I was on my way to Adorama in Manhattan to get some film. I don’t remember the entire route I took except when I stopped to punctuate my travel with a photo or two. The red must have attracted me. There was just something about it that […]
Graffiti at Night
I took the picture below on 23rd street, my way back home from Penn Station. I had my tripod. I like the look of night color photographs. They don’t look the same as through the viewfinder. One can tell that cars traveled through the frame of the picture as I snapped the shutter. Their tail lights […]
Fine Books
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 […]
Clock Building
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 […]
