
Contra Studios, West 26th Street, New York
Just found a couple more shots in camera of the Contra Studios show last month, taken Saturday morning (Oct 26th) before opening.
Contra Studios, West 26th Street, New York
Just found a couple more shots in camera of the Contra Studios show last month, taken Saturday morning (Oct 26th) before opening.
Fulton St subway station, New York
25th St subway station, Brooklyn, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
from the informational placard:
The Kwoma are a group of people living in the Washkuk Hills north of the Sepik River in northeastern New Guinea. Most Kwoma villages have, or had, one or two ceremonial houses, consisting of a rook reaching nearly to the ground and supported by posts and beams. These structures have no walls, and the sides are left open except when rituals are taking place inside. A finial (yaba), carved with images of supernatural beings, projects from each gable. The decoration of Kwoma ceremonial houses was formerly less extensive that it is today, but since the 1970s, the amount of ornamentation has increased. The supporting wood architectural elements are now carved and painted, and paintings typically cover about half the roof’s interior.
9th Street, Brooklyn, New York
Went to see a film called Instant Dreams about people chasing the dream of Polaroid Instant film in the years since its demise. Very strange film with lots of gratuitous and superfluous stock footage filling it out. Highlighted Edwin Land’s prescience about a world in which people could engage socially with images they could shoot all day long with a pocket camera no larger than a wallet – but with no sense of irony that today’s smartphones have achieved exactly that. As if to prove the point, here’s my shot of someone photographing the final frames of the credits with their iPhone.
E 12th Street, New York
Throne Room
I’m not sure whether this was in the Tower or Windsor, but found it among the Kodachromes left by my father, the resurrection of which is recorded here.
85th St and Columbus Avenue, New York
An abandoned restaurant hosting the work of a local artist.