Posted in Photos: New York City street series, tagged Brooklyn memory, Daddy's little girls on November 25, 2022| 2 Comments »
You saw some of Helen Levitt’s street scenes, but here is a shot from Eileen’s family album–Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
c. 1950’s. Photographer is Dad—Bernard Harkavy. Eileen is big sister. Hope is little sister. There is some drama going on, but what is it? Re-post from Blogfinger 2013.
THE MILLS BROTHERS:
Posted in Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: Black and White gallery, Photos: New York City street series, tagged April in New York on November 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Union Square Park. NYC. By Paul Goldfinger ©. Left click makes it a little bigger.
CHARLIE PARKER (with strings) from the Complete Master Takes album. “April in Paris”
This song was written by Vernon Duke and Yip Harburg (wouldn’t it be great to have a name like “Yip?”) for a Broadway show in 1932 called “Walk a Little Faster.” The Count Basie and his Orchestra version (1955) is the most famous (“one more time; one more once.”) The Basie version also was featured in the Mel Brooks movie “Blazing Saddles” where it is transplanted to the old west. —Paul Goldfinger, music editor @Blogfinger
Posted in Blogfinger News, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Old St. Patrick's Cathedral on October 30, 2022| 1 Comment »
Mulberry Street, near Chinatown. By Paul Goldfinger © Sept 2013. Click to enlarge.
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”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Charles Pierre poetry on Blogfinger, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography nocturnal NYC, Photography: New York City Street Series, Photos: New York City street series, Poems by Charles Pierre, tagged Charles Pierre poem on Blogfinger on August 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Greetings from Manhattan. Walking and poetry are both rhythmic activities that I have tried, in several poems, to bring together to create a unified effect. Here is “A Couple” from my 2010 poetry collection, Brief Intervals of Harmony.
Best wishes,
Charles Pierre
Upper East Side, New York City. August.2014, By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge
A Couple
By Charles Pierre
That man and woman walking side by side
almost glide together through the evening,
parting the oncoming crowd with a singleness
of rhythm that erases the differences in height
and stride. Palm to palm, with fingers entwined
and arms swinging between them, they keep
their shoulders straight and eyes fixed forward,
talking without turning aside, letting the words
swirl around them in a cloak of conversation.
His left to her right, they reflect one another,
both wanting an equal partner but remaining
self-possessed, the emptiness of darkest space
less a threat than if each were facing it alone,
though their need for connection goes mostly
unconfessed: a solitary pair accustomed
to the same pace, limbs moving in unison
through the rush of wind leading night’s advance.
Frank Vignola plays Gershwin. “Our Love is Here to Stay.”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Spring in NYC on May 8, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Lower Manhattan . Paul Goldfinger photo. Silver gelatin image. Undated © Click to enlarge
KARRIN ALLYSON
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography nocturnal NYC, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Flatiron Building in New York on March 22, 2022| 1 Comment »
Paul Goldfinger ©. Flatiron Building. Tri-X collection. c.1990.
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography editor @Blogfinger
Like Ocean Grove, the Flatiron Building is on the US National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1902 and has a steel triangular frame which sits at 5th Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd St. That part of NYC is called the “Flatiron District.”
This building has been a favorite subject of photographers. The name “Flatiron” refers to the shape of an antique metal clothes iron.
From a photographic point of view of buildings, sometimes you get strange angles, as there is with my photo above which gives the illusion of Flatiron tilting.
Professional architecture photographers use large format cameras with special equipment to get the correct perspective.
But many early photos of the Flatiron show the same off-perspective, but those photographers just accept the result and don’t comment about it.
Below is Edward Steichen’s famous 1904 night photograph of the Flatiron. He got the angles just right; probably with a large format camera where you stick your head under a black cloth.
Edward Steichen 1904
From Uptown Lowdown, a Jazz Salute to the Big Apple (live) with Warren Vaché (trumpet), Ken Peplowski (clarinet) and other famous players we have “Rose of Washington Square” and “Broadway Rose” :
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography: Black and White gallery, Photography: New York City Street Series, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Spring Greenwich Village on February 2, 2022| Leave a Comment »
In the Village, NYC. Springtime. 2015 © Paul Goldfinger. Tri-X collection.
MILES DAVIS “Springsville” is from his famous album Miles Ahead. The album was arranged by Gil Evans. There were 20 musicians on the album, and Miles played flugelhorn throughout. “Springsville is the #1 track.”
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Color, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Color me blue on Blogfinger on December 7, 2021| Leave a Comment »
East 79th Street. NYC Street Series by Paul Goldfinger. © Click and begin to see the light.
GRETA KELLER: From her album Blue and Sentimental.
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photos: New York City street series, tagged A slice of life in NYC on October 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Yorkville. Upper East Side. New York Street Series. 2014. By Paul Goldfinger. ©
THE FUGEES–soloist Lauryn Hill. This song, written in 1971 became a number 1 hit with the trio The Fugees in 1996. The group has characteristics of reggae and hip-hop.
