Tag Archives: Berenice Abbott

It Moves!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

I have been immersed in Muybridge lately, thinking about the ways that motion is the “elephant in the room” when it comes to a lot of still photography. Its persistent taunt to the frozen image presents a tension that I … Continue reading →

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The Lovecats: Celebrating Man’s Very Best Friend on International Cat Day

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

Henri Cartier-Bresson, New York, 1947 Robert Capa, [Man and cat outside an air-raid shelter, London], June-July 1941 Weegee, [Girl with cat in cradle], ca. 1950 Robert Capa, [Henri Matisse in bed working, his black cat at his feet, (Cimiez) Nice, … Continue reading →

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Back to School

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

Labor Day traditionally marks the end of summer, which means it’s time to go back to school and those (dreaded) English, history, math, and science classes.  To get you ready, below are photos concentrating on physics and biology. Berenice Abbott, … Continue reading →

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Changing Brooklyn

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

Berenice Abbott, Warehouse (Yuban), Water and Dock Streets, Brooklyn, New York, May 22, 1936 Located in the part of Brooklyn that is now called DUMBO, the Empire Stores warehouse once housed the Yuban Coffee Company, importers of coffee from South … Continue reading →

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Views of Paris

Posted on July 21, 2009 by

Eugene Atget, Rue Daubenton, Un Coin de la rue Daubenton, 1910 Eugene Atget, Hotel de Luzignan, 8 Rue Elzevir, 1901 Eugene Atget, Escalier, 25 Rue des Blank Manteaux, 1903–04 “I can say that I posses all of Old Paris” – … Continue reading →

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“The once-famous Bowery–all that is left of it.” (part 1)

Posted on June 10, 2009 by

Ewing Galloway, The once-famous Bowery–all that is left of it, 1937 from New York Souvenir Album, Camera Masterpieces, The Golden Guide of the Metropolis, 1937 Berenice Abbott, “El,” Second and Third Avenue Lines, 1936 Weegee, But there is beauty along … Continue reading →

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Women of the Photo League

Posted on May 1, 2009 by

Berenice Abbott, Church of God, December 8, 1936 Vivian Cherry, Game of Lynching IV, 1948 Helen Levitt, New York, July 1939 Sandra Weiner, [Boy in chair on sidewalk], 1940s Lisette Model, At Sammy’s, New York, 1940 Lee Sievan, Third Avenue … Continue reading →

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The Elevated

Posted on January 29, 2009 by

In a speech at a town hall meeting in Brooklyn in 1934, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia admitted to his audience that “Right now we have…structures stuck up in the air which will have to be torn down…. New York City … Continue reading →

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