Cream Ridge, NJ. Paul Goldfinger ©. October 26, 2019. Click to enlarge.
BILLIE HOLIDAY:
Archive for the ‘Photographic Gallery, Black and White’ Category
The very thought of you……
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Cream Ridge, NJ on November 17, 2024|
It Sure Looks Like Paris.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography: New York City Street Series, tagged Bryant Park in New York on November 13, 2024|
Bryant Park. From the NYC Street Series. By Paul Goldfinger.
MADELEINE PEYROUX. “La Javanaise” by Serge Gainsbourg. From the album Half the Perfect World.
“Life is not worth living without love
But you’re the one who wanted it that way my love
Whether it pleases you or not
In dancing the Javanaise
We loved each other for the length of a song”
Summer park in the Grove. Best of Blogfinger…
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Auditorium Park photo, Summer in the Grove on November 12, 2024|
Auditorium Square Park, dusk, Ocean Grove, July 2012. Paul Goldfinger aerial photo. Click once to enlarge
BLOSSOM DEARIE
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.
Posted in Photograph by Prosper Belizia, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Chateau des Alpines, St. Remy. Provence. France on November 5, 2024|
Chateau Des Alpilles. 19th century mansion in southern France. 21 rooms and a first class restaurant. Paul Goldfinger photo. Silver gelatin darkroom print. Blogfinger.net. Click once to enlarge.
JERRY ORBACH by Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart (lyrics) 1936.
Room with a view
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography Gallery France, tagged Paris museum Blogfinger on October 25, 2024|
We’ll have Manhattan…..
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Guest photographer on Blogfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Walker Evans on Blogfinger on October 24, 2024| 1 Comment »
By Paul Goldfinger, photography editor @Blogfinger
Walker Evans (1903-1975) was one of America’s finest photographers. He usually worked with a large view camera (the kind that stood on a tripod while the photographer put his head under a black cloth.) He is best known for his work during the Great Depression when he was part of a famous team from the FSA—Farm Security Administration, that documented the harsh conditions in the “dust bowl” in hard-hit states like Oklahoma.
But he also accumulated a large body of work in New York City. This photo is from 1928 at Coney Island.
It is from a book called New York, New York—The City in Art and Literature, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2000. In this instance the literature was that of lyrics to a song by the great Lorenz Hart. But at Blogfinger, we add another dimension—the actual song–“Manhattan” by Rodgers and Hart:
“We’ll go to Coney and eat baloney on a roll,
In Central Park we’ll stroll, where our first kiss we stole,
Soul to soul.” (Lorenz Hart)
BOBBY SHORT–a consummate New Yorker.
The photo gallery scene: Josephine Baker in Boston
Posted in Blogfinger guest artist, Blogfinger Presents, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Josephine Baker, Lucien Aigner on October 14, 2024| 1 Comment »
The New Yorker. Josephine Baker
By Paul Goldfinger, photography editor @Blogfinger.net
The photojournalist Lucien Aigner was born in Hungary. He moved to Paris where he worked with some of the pioneer Leica-toting photographers such as Robert Capa. When WWII happened, he escaped to America where he continued his work. He spent his last days organizing over 100,000 of his negatives.
I have been a Leica photographer most of my life, including now when I work with a Leica digital, the M-9. But I still spend time scanning negatives for digital files to create prints and to post on Blogfinger.
Josephine Baker was an American singer who moved to France where she was a sensation. She liked to perform in abbreviated costumes including one where she wore a very short skirt made of bananas. She was famous in Europe, but less so in the US.
Baker was active in the US civil rights movement; she would never perform in front of segregated audiences. During WWII, she assisted the French Resistance, and DeGaulle personally gave her their highest honor.
Her biggest hit was “I Have Two Loves” (“J’ai deux amours”) which we have played on Blogfinger in the past. (see below). The title suggests “une situation dangereaux.”
Below is not a Blogfinger photo, although we once visited the Follies Bergère.
JOSEPHINE BAKER: Click once on the poster below.
Josephine Baker 1930.
Got milk?
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic gallery Italy, Photographic Gallery, Black and White on October 10, 2024| 7 Comments »
A bus in Italy gets your attention. Photo by Paul Goldfinger. Undated. Tom Costantino wins the title contest.
LITTLE RICHARD:
Baby, I love your way….
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Wedding in Ft. Myers Florida on October 8, 2024|
The Farmer in the Deli
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged The farmer in the deli, You can call me Al on August 25, 2024| 1 Comment »
Colts Neck, New Jersey. By Paul Goldfinger © October 10, 2013. left click
Farmer: I’d like a hot pastrami on a roll.
Deli man: In Delhi, we have it on naan bread.
Farmer: You’re my roll model. Call me Al.
PAUL SIMON from Graceland
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 July 26, 2024| 3 Comments »
By Paul Goldfinger, M.D., Editor, Blogfinger.net. Photograph caption below:
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 for “April in Paris,” chestnuts in blossom don’t happen until 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.
This song, “April in Paris” was written by Yip Harburg and Vernon Duke for a 1932 Broadway show called, Walk a Little Faster.
“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
“Till April in Paris.
Whom can I run to?
What have you done to my heart?”
What have you done to my heart?”
Harburg also wrote the lyrics for “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Many have recorded “April in Paris,” but this is Kurt Elling’s version from his album The Messenger.
Baby won’t you please come home?
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, tagged BESSIE SMITH, New Jersey Transit on July 22, 2024|
Jersey Coast Line. December, 2014 © By Paul Goldfinger
BESSIE SMITH (1923)
Bessie Smith from Ken Burns doc, “JAZZ” Paul Goldfinger photo from the TV video.
3 Graces. Florence, Italy
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic galler Italy, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Leonard Cohen, The Three Graces in Florence on July 10, 2024| 1 Comment »
3 Graces. Paul Goldfinger © Florence, Italy. From the Blogfinger gallery. Silver gelatin print. Leica M. Tri-X.
LEONARD COHEN from his album The Essential Leonard Cohen. “Dance Me to the End of Love.” Live.