By Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff. April 1, 2014. © Re-post from 2014. NYC.
The Chelsea Market, which is referred to as an urban food court, is located in Manhattan—- 75 9th Avenue. The market fills two city blocks, stretching from 9th Avenue to 11th Avenue.
The Chelsea Market is much more then your average food court. Vendors here sell hand-crafted soups , breads, farm fresh vegetables , seafood , coffee, wine, and every type of meat cut you can imagine. Unique art work adorns the walls of this underground market, and city dwellers punch away on their iPads while munching on a freshly made lobster roll and sampling a glass of Merlot.
Check it out, enjoy people watching, but bring your credit card because nothing is cheap in the Big Apple.
—Moe Demby.
PAUL SIMON from his album Graceland
“A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
Na na na na .”
I think this is a great picture.!!
My husband Jack was a butcher when we were first married.
He owned his own shop for awhile, and went down to the market mostly every day to get a hind of beef, bring it back to his shop and cut it into steaks, roasts and chops.
This picture represents an interesting part of life that most people never see.
Started my morning reading Blogfinger and munching on a homemade “scuffin” (recipe courtesy of yesterday’s NY Times), when I came across this beefy photo. Gulp! Think I’ll refrain from eating at the keyboard.
Have to say, this really is a beautiful photograph, and it reminds me of living across the street from a meat-packing plant in Greenwich Village. It was a messy, noisy, and “rough” environment, so I decided to avert my eyes and ignore the workers’ “hello honey” and other comments, some of which fall into the YUCK category. After weeks of ignoring the overtures, I heard one of the guys yell out, “Miss, you have a real nice personality.” I had all I could do to contain the laughter.
Jennifer. I hate to break it to you, but in the world of photojournalism and fine art photography, no one is looking for pretty pictures. Consider that Renaissance painters often portrayed the goriest scenes in the Bible, Matthew Brady was famous for his photos of corpses on Civil War battlefields, Edward Weston took a marvelous photo of a toilet bowl, and Joel Peter Witkin currently gets paid thousands of dollars for his tableaux photos showing sexual perversions and scenes reminiscent of the Texas Chainsaw murders.
Moe’s image of sides of beef hanging from hooks at the Chelsea Market is beautifully executed,capturing a vibrant scene of life at the market, and it is full of symbolism regarding cows who are better dead than emitting methane into the atmosphere. It really is a political statement. –Paul Goldfinger, photography editor @Blogfinger
YUCK! So many prettier things to picture from Chelsea Market…