Convention Hall. Asbury Park, New Jersey. By Paul Goldfinger © click imagefor bigger wedding. Re-post from 2013.
THE TYMES. (c. 1963)
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Strolling by the Sea Together; So Much in Love.
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Strolling by the sea together with the Tymes on April 18, 2019| 3 Comments »
Central Park lifestyle
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography Central Park, Photography: New York City Street Series on April 8, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Paul Goldfinger ©. Central Park. Silver gelatin print. NYC street series.
PAUL SIMON AND DION: “New York is My Home” From the album Stranger to Stranger.
Chicken Road. Historic Fairmont, North Carolina.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography outside of NJ, tagged Fairmont, North Carolina photo series on March 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
EMMYLOU HARRIS AND RODNEY CROWELL from their album Old Yellow Moon. “Back When We Were Beautiful.”
Guest Photographer. William Meyers
Posted in Guest photographer, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Guest photographer: William Meyers on February 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Klezmer band. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 2005 By William Meyers
SOUNDTRACK FOR THIS PHOTO: “FREYLACH #8” BY KLEZMER JUICE (re-post from 2012)
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography editor at Blogfinger.net.
Every once in a while I will post a guest photographer segment which might be about a famous artist or just someone who sends us an image. Or, as in this case, it could just be a photographer whose work I stumbled upon. I don’t know William Meyers personally, but I saw one of his images (above) recently and I saved a copy for this post. I can’t even recall where I saw it, but his work has been exhibited and published extensively.
William Meyers was born in 1938, and perusal of his web site indicates that he shoots mostly black and white, and mostly in New York City. His themes include NYC lifestyles, music subjects, and Jewish life here and in Israel. He seems to like music and his photos seem to like women. In that sense he is like one of his heroes Garry Winogrand, a pioneer of street photography.
Meyers has been a photography writer for the Wall Street Journal as well as a successful photographer.
I am drawn to some of his work because his sensibility seems to be similar to my own. In 2015 he published a book of images from the outer boroughs of New York. Those black and white photos are all made with film, and all his photos are silver gelatin darkroom prints. Myers does not do digital.
Darkroom work is exhausting to do and requires great skill and is very time consuming. For those photographers who have gone digital, many consider the new technology to be a relief. The finished product is said to be indistinguishable from a dark room print, but others, including myself, would disagree. William Meyers has first-rate printers do his prints for him. Many famous artists in the past including Cartier-Bresson did the same. In my case, I did my own, but these days I mostly show my work on the Internet, but lately my prints are digital done by an expert lab.
“Busker” Union Square Subway Station. NYC. Feb. 2011. William Meyers
San Francisco Girls Band. Photographed at Banjo Jim’s on the Lower East Side. November 2011. William Meyers
Deborah Rosenthal, painter. New York City. 1998. William Meyers
On the Trail of Ernest Hemingway. Sloppy Joe’s Bar
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Emmy Rossum on Blogfinger.net, Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West on February 2, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Sloppy Joe’s Bar (est. 1933). Corner of Greene and Duval in Key West. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click left for larger view.
EMMY ROSSUM (This is from her album Sentimental Journey; She also is the star of Showtime’s Shameless)
Hemingway would have liked Emmy.
“The winds of march that made my heart a dancer
A telephone that rings but who’s to answer
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things remind me of you.”
Emmy Rossum
Somewhere in Time
Posted in Music from the movies, Photograph silver gelatin darkroom print, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography Central Park, Photography: New York City Street Series, tagged Central Park ice skating on February 2, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Central Park. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger. NYC Street Series. © Click image for larger version.
JOHN BARRY From the motion picture “Somewhere in Time”
Paris shopper
Posted in Photo gallery: Europe, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Paris Left Bank shopper on January 13, 2019| 3 Comments »
Rue Jacob, Left Bank, Paris. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
BENNY GOODMAN from the Woody Allen movie Mighty Aphrodite. “Whispering.”
Stockbridge, Mass.? Nope, Asbury Park, NJ.
Posted in Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Music from the Broadway stage., Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: The Other Side of Asbury, tagged Asbury Park in winter, Kristin Chenoweth on Blogfinger on January 11, 2019| Leave a Comment »
View across Sunset Park. By Paul Goldfinger. c. 2012 © ( Re-post 2014)
KRISTIN CHENOWETH. This time of year, there is often a concern that someone who should come home will not be present.
Here is Kristin Chenoweth’s live performance of “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again,” by Andrew Lloyd Weber, from the Phantom of the Opera.
It’s from Kristin’s concert album, 2014, called Coming Home. It was recorded at the Kristin Chenoweth Theater in her hometown of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Kristin Chenoweth.
Paris: Homage to Eugene Atget (pr. At-jay’)
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Eugene Atget, Photo: old Paris on December 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »
- Paris boutique. c. 1985. By Paul Goldfinger
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.
- Photograph by Eugene Atget c. 1910 in Paris. Internet photo.
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 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.
- Hardware store on the Bowery in 1938 by Berenice Abbott.
JULIETTE GRECO From the movie An Education.
Foggy day
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photos from afar on December 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »
December 15, 2018. North Carolina. Paul Goldfinger ©.
It was a misty fine rain changing direction and force along the way–a Saturday afternoon in rural North Carolina; a stop along Route 95, heading south. The fog lasted all day and settled down like a shroud, touching the ground in all directions and just laying there. Visibility was poor, and the auto wipers were unsure what to do.
These rickety, ghostly plants seemed to be at home in this setting. It was as if they might have a story to tell.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Nuns and Michel Bell from the World Premier Cast Recording: “Alma Redemptoris Mater” from Showboat.
