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Tag: irony

We’d love to meet face to face

76th St and Broadway, New York

Back in NYC for a couple of months this summer (been back over 3 weeks already, truth be told). I have not been tremendously inspired in my time back, so switching back to one post per day.

Posted on August 2, 2025July 27, 2025Categories Broadway, documentary, Photo, StreetTags homeless, inequality, irony, Manhattan, New York, storefront, street, umbrela, urban2 Comments on We’d love to meet face to face

Reasons to Smile?

Format ImagePosted on March 29, 2021March 28, 2021Categories B&W, Broadway, Candid, documentary, Photo, StreetTags bank, Black & White, Broadway, candid, documentary, homeless, irony, Manhattan, New York, street1 Comment on Reasons to Smile?

Mixed Messages

57th Street between 6th & 7th Ave

Posted on January 31, 2010Categories B&W, Photo, StreetTags Adam Isler, B&W, Black & White, candid, fence, homeless, irony, Isler, man, Manhattan, New York, NYC, people, Sign, social commentary, street, W 57th St, wallLeave a comment on Mixed Messages

What Are You Looking At?

W 100th St
W 100th St

Broadway between 99th & 100th
Broadway between 99th & 100th

Posted on September 8, 2009September 6, 2009Categories Broadway, Photo, StreetTags Adam Isler, agitprop, billboard, Broadway, candid, contrast, homeless, irony, Isler, Manhattan, New York, NYC, passerby, people, poster, street, womanLeave a comment on What Are You Looking At?

Rollercoaster Economic Forecast

Hershey Park, PA
Hershey Park, PA

Posted on September 6, 2009September 5, 2009Categories PhotoTags Adam Isler, amusement park, blue, Hershey, irony, Isler, luna park, Pennsylvania, rail, Sign, sky, spray, structure, waterLeave a comment on Rollercoaster Economic Forecast
 

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