Category: Artwork

Ed VII

Edward VII Memorial, Hove

1912. The statue by Newbury A Trent. Sandstone pedestal with plaques, railings and figure of bronze. The monument straddles the boundary between Brighton and Hove. Elaborately moulded pedestal, square in plan and standing on 3 steps; each side carries a bronze plaque: to the north a relief portrait of Edward VII, east: the arms of Hove; south: an inscription ‘IN THE YEAR 1912 THE INHABITANTS OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE PROVIDED A HOME FOR THE QUEEN’S NURSES AND ERECTED THIS MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF EDWARD VII AS A TESTIMONY OF THEIR ENDURING LOYALTY’; east: arms of Brighton; each plaque is under a segmental cornice. The pedestal carries a winged female figure carrying an olive branch and standing on a globe. A low rail surrounds the monument: short battered piers with bronze railings between.

Grandma’s All Right

Parsons School of Design, New York

I took an ICP course in the Spring with Harvey Stein on photo books and administrative help was provided by Parsons Photography MFA student Agnes An, whose grad show at Parsons I attended last month, where I saw the above.

Ethan Hill

Soho Photo, W 23rd Street, New York

I saw a great presentation by Ethan Hill, of ICP, at Soho Photo‘s new space last month. Nominally about lighting, it was really a tour of his editorial work ranging from Harper’s Bazaar to Newsweek and others, covering both the context to the images, and some of the creative thinking behind the compositions. He finished with some of his more recent artistic ventures. Soho Photo will probably put up video from the talk at some point in the future. The photographs behind him are by Chris Maliwat of Subwaygram fame, who introduced him.

Bibliophiles

New York Public Library – Stephen A Schwarzman Building

This is one of the ceilings in the main public library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. Remarkably for one who’s lived in NY for over 60 years, and whose birth was announced in the library’s employee newsletter, I’d never been inside before doing some research a week or so ago in the Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.