Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'photographs'
September 4, 2008
Last night Jesse Frohman's "In Bloom" exhibit opened at SoHo Grand's gallery, and Papermag describes it as "epic," twice (doubly epic!). The show features Frohman's now 14-year-old images of Kurt Cobain, and allegedly some photos of flowers. He told the website, "This shoot was supposed to be a five hour shoot. We had to do it in 15 minutes. It was crazy." It took place in NYC just before Cobain's death, and the singer arrived......
Continue Reading "SoHo Grand is "In Bloom""August 18, 2008
On Saturday, Fort Greene photographer Erin Patrice O'Brien unveiled her new exhibit at Brooklyn's Corridor Gallery. The images on display were not that of her normal clientele (she used to take portraits of celebrities), but of the young mothers living in New York. She told the Daily News, “I was interested in someone who never gets their story told as opposed to someone who always has the limelight." This wasn't the limelight that Diablo Cody......
Continue Reading "Mamás Adolescentes in New York"August 11, 2008
Richard Sandler, a New York documentarian, has sent along some photographs from his decade-spanning collection. Sandler will also be screening two of his documentaries about the city later this month. The first, Brave New York (watch online), "is a free form documentary that loosely chronicles the last 12 years of intense change in the East Village. From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens,......
Continue Reading "Richard Sandler Documents New York"July 23, 2008
New York homes, New Yorkers and their possessions -- that's what Todd Selby photographs for his "In Your Place" series. Take a peak inside and get some decoration inspiration, or just be voyeuristic without being totally creepy. Bonus: If you know someone with an interesting pad, you can suggest them for the series.......
Continue Reading "Photographer Looks Inside New Yorkers' Homes"July 1, 2008
The Morrison Hotel Gallery (Soho loft) has announced their latest upcoming exhibit, opening later this month on July 18th. The installation will explore the history of Columbia Records 30th Street Studio through photographs. The space, which was converted from an Armenian church, is where Dylan recorded Highway 61, Miles made Kind of Blue, and Leonard Bernstein created West Side Story. Now long gone, the only way back inside is through the old images on display,......
Continue Reading "Columbia's 30th Street Studio Revisited"June 23, 2008
Everyone’s a curator at the Brooklyn Museum’s Click! exhibition. Last March, the museum invited photographers to submit one photo that addressed the theme of "Changing Faces of Brooklyn." Inspired by James Surowiecki’s book The Wisdom of Crowds, organizers uploaded the 389 responses to the museum’s website for the general public to evaluate. Each photograph was displayed without artist attribution and at random for each evaluator, and artists were unable to forward links of individual submissions......
Continue Reading "Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum"June 20, 2008
Should you somehow manage to finagle one of precious 12 seats at David Chang’s wildly hyped restaurant Momofuku Ko, don’t go pushing your luck by trying to commemorate the experience in photographs. Chang has banned picture-taking at Ko because he feels it’s become a distraction to other diners. “It’s just food. Eat it,” he declares. Could this be a new trend? Serious Eats talks to other chefs around town about their photography policies.......
Continue Reading "No Pics for You! Chef Bans Photography at Momofuko Ko"March 27, 2008
Photos © John Coffer Noah Kalina, the photographer who made a splash by taking a snapshot of himself every day for years, now has some unusual competition: John Coffer, a master of nineteenth-century tintype photography, is unveiling his series “The Daily Tintype” tonight at Gerald Peters Gallery on East 78th Street. The willfully anachronistic exhibit features 365 tintypes from his daily life, one per day from 2007. Coffer (pictured above) himself is quite a character,......
Continue Reading "John Coffer, Master of the 19th Century Tintype"March 22, 2008
With Brooklyn storefronts becoming more and more generic as chains move in to the borough's nabes, a book documenting some of the more old-timey awnings has hit the market. Featuring 75 photographs taken while on bicycle rides, Paul Lacy's Brooklyn Storefronts will take you on a colorful (albeit 2-dimensional) tour of retail exteriors including Los Doctores Tires Shop, the Great Eagle Photo Company, and the St. Jude Religious Articles. This is a decidedly less dangerous......
Continue Reading "Brooklyn Storefronts Hit the Bookshelf"March 20, 2008
Photos via Hakanu, Mockstar and JBlough's Flickr. As the John Varvatos boutique moves into the CBGB space, good news washes over 313 Bowery (which used to house the CB's 313 Gallery). The space will maintain both its art and music roots as the The Morrison Hotel Gallery moves in.This historic location will be preserved by providing some of the best in visual music art curated by the staff of our gallery and created by......
Continue Reading "Morrison Moves into 313 Gallery"March 13, 2008
Yoko Ono is not going to be too pleased with this: it turns out John Lennon was quite happy during his infamous "Lost Weekend" period. The "weekend," which lasted 18 months (during 1973-75), was a separation from Ono, where he spent nearly two years with the couple's one-time employee May Pang (in both LA and NYC). It has long been said that he was depressed during this time, but if Pang's new book of photographs,......
Continue Reading "33 Years Later: May Pang Pictures John Lennon"January 17, 2008
Last night we received a link to a treasure trove of old copyright-free photos being hosted on the Library of Congress's Flickr page. Here's a link to all of their New York images, and some of our favorites are below and after the jump. The pilot project will get 3,000 of the Library's 14 million photographs online. See what both the Library of Congress and Flickr have to say about the endeavor. Woolworth Building, between......
Continue Reading "The Library of Congress Photo Archive Meets Flickr"
