I took this black and white photos in March of 1991 during a walk from my home in Bensonhurst Brooklyn, to Coney Island. When one thinks of Coney Island, one usually imagines a place to have fun and forget the ordinary. This is a view of the amusement park behind the facade. I printed shortly […]
I took this photo in 1989. I printed it in my darkroom sometime in the 1990s. I like that I captured the now bygone era of the Pan Am Building, the Walk/Don’t Walk signs and the steam emanating from vertical pipes stuck into the street, although from what I’ve read, the steam is still there. […]
I used to turn the corner here and walk to Central Park.
While this does not strictly fit into my Newsstand Scene, this vintage photograph recalls bygone days when newspapers were prevalent enough to merit their own trashcan.
This is a black and white photo of the same newsstand of which I photographed in color, posted the other day (Red Newspaper Stand on 46th Street 9.1.1991). I returned to photograph this newsstand over a long period of time. I think I like the black and white version better than the color one.
