NYC in Photos Week: On the Bowery by Ed Grazda
“Grazda’s images show a New York City before it erased entire neighborhoods for expensive shiny blandness.” Continue reading NYC in Photos Week: On the Bowery by Ed Grazda
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NYC in Photos Week: Lower East and Upper West: New York City Photographs 1957-1968 by Jonathan Brand @ NYJB
Lower East and Upper West chronicle New York City from the late fifties to the late sixties. Tumultuous change, “urban renewal,” and racial strife mark these violent decades, but in these photographs these charged descriptors lay in the background. Continue reading NYC in Photos Week: Lower East and Upper West: New York City Photographs 1957-1968 by Jonathan Brand @ NYJB
NYC in Photos Week
Wednesday Poetry Corner: Light Reading by Stephan Delbos
Emerging from disparate scraps of phrases and images, Light Reading by Stephan Delbos is anything but. Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Light Reading by Stephan Delbos
Pride Plus: Gravity Is Stronger Here by Phyllis B. Dooney and Jardine Libaire @ nyjb
“Gravity Is Stronger Here by Phyllis B. Dooney and Jardine Libaire acts both as a time capsule and a group portrait. Capturing images from an eccentric rural south, the book gives voice to the paranoia, rage, and love in its people.” Continue reading Pride Plus: Gravity Is Stronger Here by Phyllis B. Dooney and Jardine Libaire @ nyjb
Commonplace Book: Cioran on Death
EM Cioran on death. Continue reading Commonplace Book: Cioran on Death
Shelter in Place Update: Part Infinity
An update about CCLaP reviews, political neutrality, and idiots not wearing masks. Continue reading Shelter in Place Update: Part Infinity
Sometimes Overwhelming, by Arlene Gottfried @ nyjb
“Arlene Gottfried’s photographs chronicle the excitement and everyday strangeness of a New York City long since forgotten.” Continue reading Sometimes Overwhelming, by Arlene Gottfried @ nyjb
Photography Fridays: On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories, by Mark Seliger @ nyjb
“On Christopher Street by Mark Seliger is a magnificent volume of stunning photography and heartbreaking stories. It makes the struggles real and immediate.” Continue reading Photography Fridays: On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories, by Mark Seliger @ nyjb
Art After Stonewall, 1969 – 1989, by Jonathan Weinberg @ NYJB
“Art After Stonewall is an engaging and illuminating chronicle of gay liberation. Art, photography, essays, and interviews reveal a movement in all its triumph and shortcomings.” Continue reading Art After Stonewall, 1969 – 1989, by Jonathan Weinberg @ NYJB
