GRAN ORQUESTA VIENESA DE CONCIERTOS. “The Skaters Waltz”
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Ice Skating in Central Park
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Preservation Hall duo.
Posted in Blogfinger Music Department, Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White on May 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
RICHIE HAVENS with the PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND: ‘Trouble in Mind.”
Modern OG history: Pearl Harbor Day…
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Photo: Pearl Harbor Day on May 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Each year on Pearl Harbor Day in Ocean Grove, there is a ceremony at the pier, and a small boat, tossing around in the waves, drops a wreath into the ocean. It is very moving. December 7, 2011. Paul Goldfinger photo.
Police Chief Robert Adams piloted his small boat for these ceremonies. He loved this photograph and he had it hanging in his Neptune office.
ILANIT “Next Year.” Performed in Hebrew:
Notre Dame de Paris
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Notre Dame de Paris on Blogfinger on April 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Medici Fountain (1630) April in Paris?
Posted in French Connection on Blogfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography Gallery France, Photography: Paris, tagged Singers Unlimited, The Medici Fountain---Paris on April 9, 2022| 3 Comments »

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
It’s April in Paris, right now. And it is a fine time to visit that most romantic of cities, but sometimes April there can dip down to the 40’s—sound familiar?
And, despite Yip Harburg’s lyrics, chestnuts in blossom don’t happen till May, and nobody is setting “holiday tables under the trees.” In Luxembourg Gardens, blooms are starting to pop in April, and they have a bandstand there.
However, choose May to visit Paris.
“I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never knew my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace
What have you done to my heart?”
This song, “April in Paris” was written by Yip Harburg and Vernon Duke for a 1932 Broadway show called, “Walk a Little Faster.”
Harburg also wrote the lyrics for “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Many have recorded “April in Paris,” but Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald made the most famous version.
ELLA FITZGERALD WITH THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA:
St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Little Italy, NYC
Posted in Blogfinger News, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Old St. Patrick's Cathedral on March 17, 2022| 1 Comment »
Little Italy has been fading away for years. Yet you can still take a food tour there and visit family businesses that exist after more than one hundred years.
On Columbus Day, the Italian-American community is celebrated —-Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL BOYS AND GIRLS CHOIR “The Lord is my Shepherd”
Money Plant
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Paris: Homage to Eugene Atget (pr. At-jay’)
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Eugene Atget, Photo: old Paris on March 9, 2022| 1 Comment »

Paris boutique. c. 1985. By Paul Goldfinger
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor.
Eugéne Atget (1857-1927) was a French photographer who received a commission in 1906 to document the buildings of old Paris. He took thousands of photos, but his work was largely ignored. Meanwhile, many of those historic structures were destroyed.
In 1925, the American photographer Berenice Abbott* (1898-1991) discovered a trove of Atget’s work and she popularized those images. Many great artists were influenced by Atget, including Matisse and Picasso. That is ironic since painting has long held a lofty position among the visual arts, while fine art photographers have sought respect in the arts community.
Atget died penniless. But his work is greatly admired today. Someone gave me a book of his Paris photos. That book is designed to be precisely the size of an old paving stone from the cobbled streets of old Paris. Atget was photographing buildings and streets, so what made his images so special?
I had the opportunity to ask that question of a professor of photography from the Savannah School of the Arts. He said, “It’s where you stand.” In other words, the composition of a photograph is so important in creating an image that is emotionally appealing while another photo of the same structure will just be ordinary.
When I visited Paris some years ago, I tried to emulate Atget in taking street shots, mostly around the left bank. The one above has never been shown before, but now I can re-visit old photographs through the magic of my digital negative scanner. I love the idea of taking the old technology (a negative strip) and then digitizing an image and trying to make it look like an old darkroom print.
Note: In Paris, they have worked hard over many years to preserve their architecture. One time I came upon a total rebuild of a house, where only the facade was retained, and everything behind it was newly constructed. On the other hand, you can see housing there that has been occupied for three hundred years or more.
As for Berenice Abbott,* I can see why she liked Atget’s work–she became famous for photographing old New York City.
JULIETTE GRECO From the movie An Education.
Night vision in the Great Auditorium #5: A serious man..
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ENIGMA VARIATIONS ELGAR LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: