Tag: Photography
Here’s a wonderful photo series from Marc Hermann, who took vintage crime scene photos from the Daily News’s archives, then edited them together with current-day location shots. There’s the Sacred Hearts & Stephen Church burning above the BQE, a big 1940’s car slamming into a lightpole at Classon and Pacific, a fire at 31 Grand Street, […]
I think I said some variant of “Wow!” or “Holy shit!” to myself about five times over the course of the above six-minute video. In it, software called 3-Sweep, developed by researchers from Tel Aviv University creates fully modifiable 3D-models of the objects in regular photographs. If that doesn’t sound impressive enough to warrant my […]
The landscape of New York keeps on changing, but Coney Island is cruising through time with the same vivid and dissolute charm, against its own “transition.” As summer wraps up, the gritty seaside amusement district is effervescent, the boardwalk filled with bronzed and tattooed flesh and grinning characters, chasing and squeezing in the last bit of […]
San Francisco’s armory turned bondage/S&M/erotic wrestling porn-making warehouse for Kink.com has been the subject of several professional photo projects and a James Franco documentary which may or may not exist. The Bound for Success photo essay from photographer and filmmaker Shaul Schwarz is a very glossy, rival to on-set photography of big blockbuster films. It really fits […]
Last year, New York Times photographer Robert Stolarik was arrested and beaten by NYPD officer Michael Ackermann after Stolarik took photos of a teenage girl being arrested in the Bronx. At the time, Ackermann claimed that Stolarik was obstructing his arrest by repeatedly setting off his camera’s flash, and that he had repeatedly and lawfully instructed the […]
This is not what a feminist artist looks like. I am not in a habit of trashing a show before I see it, so I won’t trash the 2-day “EXPLICIT” exhibit at Morgan Avenue Underground in Bushwick this weekend. After reading this Vice profile however, it’s clear that there is an ethical and intellectual fail in […]
These types of Australian mugshots resurface once in awhile, but this batch of face / full body diptychs is the most gorgeous set I’ve ever seen. They were shot in the ’20s and discovered in ’89. They’re actually 4-by-6-inch glass plate negatives. That means one giant bulky camera and lots of set-up. The most proper of […]
Hot Tea strikes again! The Minneapolis native took over the pedestrian pathway of the Williamsburg Bridge and strung colorful yarn from one side of the fence to another, about ten feet above the ground. Tall bikes watch out! You really, really shouldn’t be riding in the pedestrian path anyway, lest you want to get beheaded by a […]
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. Diner 85 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Black Tree 131 Orchard St, Lower East Side, Manhattan Tabare 221 S 1st St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Gallow Green 542 W […]
New York graffiti writers MINT&SERF recently curated the exhibition “#PPP: None of Us Greater Than All of Us” at the ROX Gallery on the Lower East Side. Looks like a varied mix of media, from Clayton Patterson’s photos to Beni Zooted’s Untitled “self-portrait” of U.S. currency and plexiglass to the collaborative graffiti canvases of the Peter […]
