When advised against documenting certain parts of New York in the 1930s, Abbott replied:
“I”m not a nice girl, I’m a photographer”
Aerodynamic Distraction Division
Ask me anything
April 23, 2012
Berenice Abbott
April 19, 2012
On the morning of the 5th of April, New York City will wake up to glasgow-based artist david shrigley’s piece ‘how do you feel?’ On the high line billboard. Located at West 18th Street and 10th Avenue, the 25 x 75 foot (7.6 x 23 meter) installation will ask the common, yet complex question and provide an answer, one which is a comment on the emotional state of contemporary society. It deals with anxieties, paranoia, and the familiar pressures of personal and cultural demands.
(via loveyourchaos)
February 15, 2012
Fires
‘The surprising thing about New York families, living as they do in such crowded conditions, it that they still manage to crowd in pets like dogs, cats, parrots, which they always try to save at fires. At one fire, I saw a woman running out holding a cardboard box with a couple of snakes inside. I questioned her. (It was none of my business, but I’m curious about people)…she told me she was a dancer who used the snakes in her act.’
by Weegee
February 11, 2012
January 27, 2012
January 23, 2012
(Source: sweptofftheearth, via volumeundone)
January 22, 2012
January 17, 2012
January 4, 2012
Ernst Haas - Pedestrians crossing a New York street in winter time cast long shadows, 1980.
(Source: tonguedepressors)
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