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Merce Cunningham Centennial

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Christopher George

Barbara Morgan, Merce Cunningham – Totem Ancestor, 1942 (545.1986) Totem Ancestor: Choreography: Merce Cunningham; Music: John Cage; Costumes: Charlotte Trowbridge) Arnold Eagle, Merce Cunningham in Appalachian Spring, Martha Graham Company, 1944 (552.1987) Appalachian Spring: Choreography: Martha Graham; Music: Aaron Copland; … Continue reading →

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Merce Cunningham

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Christopher George

Barbara Morgan, Merce Cunningham – Totem Ancestor, 1942 (545.1986) (Totem Ancestor: Choreography: Merce Cunningham; Music: John Cage; Costumes: Charlotte Trowbridge) Arnold Eagle, Merce Cunningham in Appalachian Spring, Martha Graham Company, 1944 (552.1987) (Appalachian Spring: Choreography: Martha Graham; Music: Aaron Copland; … Continue reading →

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60 years ago today the Third Avenue El closed in Manhattan

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Christopher George

Arnold Eagle (1909-1992), Third Avenue El; Chatham Square Station, New York, ca. 1940, (461.1987) Arnold Eagle, Third Avenue El; 34th Street Station, New York, 1943, (479.1987) Arnold Eagle, Third Avenue El; Looking Up from 27th Street, New York, ca. 1938, … Continue reading →

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Happy Passover

Posted on March 25, 2013 by jacquelinegilbert24

At sundown tonight begins the celebration of the passover seder. Families will be gathering together for a meal to tell the story of the Jews’ exodus out of Egypt. In the picture below, three men are about to empty their … Continue reading →

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Let It Snow!

Posted on November 8, 2012 by marthafern

Robert Capa, [Rickshaws, Hankou, China], March 1938 (1627.1992) Arnold Eagle, 14th Street Station, ca. 1936 (169.1989) Andrew Savulich, Man Slips on Ice in front of the Waldorf-Astoria, 1985 (361.1994) Weegee, [Man shoveling snow, mannequin in background], ca. 1942 (16280.1993)

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Her chromium nerves and her platinum brain were chastely encased in cellophane…

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Christopher George

Hans Richter, Dreams That Money Can Buy, 1947 Dreams That Money Can Buy The Story Joe, a young poet in a desperate mood, determines to capitalize on his unique gift for interpreting one’s inmost dreams. He settles down in a … Continue reading →

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Making the Louisiana Story

Posted on October 4, 2010 by claartjevandijk

Arnold Eagle, Frances Flaherty, Robert Flaherty, and Richard Leacock on “Louisiana Story,” 1948 Arnold Eagle, Robert Flaherty and Helen van Dongen on Location in Louisiana while Shooting “Louisiana Story,” 1948 Arnold Eagle, Robert Flaherty Directing “Louisiana Story,” 1948 In 1948, … Continue reading →

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Celebrate National Ice Cream Month!

Posted on July 20, 2010 by erinbarnett

Weegee, Photographer Weegee Disguised as an Ice Cream Peddler in Theater, ca. 1943 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dressed-up women, with popular flower print patterns, eat ice cream, a Russian custom, during an intermission at the Moscow circus, 1954 Mike Disfarmer, [Unidentified Woman … Continue reading →

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The Elevated

Posted on January 29, 2009 by espindel

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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Appalachian Spring

Posted on December 4, 2008 by espindel

Arnold Eagle, “Appalachian Spring,” 1945 Premiered in 1944 at the Library of Congress by the Martha Graham Dance Company, Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring tells the story of a newlywed couple building a farmhouse in 19th century Pennsylvania, and a … Continue reading →

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