Bronx Botanical Gardens. By Paul Goldfinger. Click to enlarge.
MIRANDA SAGE from her album Moon Tiger. “Orchids in the Moonlight”
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Orchids aglow. Dreaming in the moonlight.
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Bronx Botanical Gardens, Miranda Sage on November 25, 2024|
East Village, New York City
Posted in Music from the movies, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Music from the Deer Hunter, NYC, Photo: East Village on October 30, 2024| 1 Comment »
In front of St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery on East 10th Street. NYC Street Series. 2014. By Paul Goldfinger. Silver gelatin print. Click image once for larger view.
By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor, Blogfinger.net
A quiet Sunday morning in the East Village. In front of a church, it seems odd to see a lion. The lion looks towards the church and is contemplative. He carries a shield befitting his role as king of the beasts.
But, in contrast to that, he stands quietly mute, as if on guard against any evil that might appear in his small peaceful territory with his subjects, the pigeons, at his feet.
He wants to be the protector of anyone who might feel lonely and who would sit on those benches. You get the feeling that he would roar if it became necessary.
Denise Van Outen : “Tell Me on a Sunday” It’s a sad New York story.
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.
A Couple: Poetry by Charles Pierre
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 11, 2024|
Upper East Side, New York City. August. 2014. Photo by Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net. 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.”
Only Sixteen? Ask Dr. Hook.
Posted in Photos: New York City street series, tagged Dr. Hook doesn't know on July 28, 2024|
Washington Square Park, April 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo © NYC Street Series
DR. HOOK
All the things you are…
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Central Park. Summer, 2014. By Paul Goldfinger © Click once to enlarge
TONY BENNETT: (Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein III. 1939 for Broadway and the movies)
“I’m in heaven when the music begins…” *
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography Central Park, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Central Park on May 4, 2024|
Paul Goldfinger photograph. Central Park, New York City. Silver gelatin darkroom print. Blogfinger.net. Undated. Click on image to enlarge.
By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor, Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, NJ USA*
GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA : The song featured in the video below is “I Know Why and So Do You.”
It is from a 1941 movie called Sun Valley Serenade and it was a hit recording. On the record label, the song is described as a fox trot. Paula Kelly sings the romantic solo.
The name of the song is intriguing —“I Know Why and So Do You.” The language is one dimension removed from “I love you and you love me.” The singer seems awfully sure of herself.
The lyric in the song, “I’m in heaven when the music begins” refers to how emotional ballroom dancing can be. Well, OK, but that would have to be a marvelous dreamy slow-dance on a low-light dance floor. An exception would be a sensual tango.
Most big band arrangements usually begin with the orchestra and with the celebrity musician leader out front getting the earliest solo. Examples of that include Harry James (trumpet,) Benny Goodman. (clarinet) and Tommy Dorsey (trombone.)
Glenn Miller plays the trombone solo late in this movie arrangement, although an actor dubbed him in the film.
Later in the song a lovely vocalist takes the stage. She is an actress with Paula Kelly’s voice dubbed. She performs on the recording with the all-male quartet The Modernaires.
And a romantic movie plot line intertwines with the music in the film, where the actress roles her eyes while Paula Kelly’s solo is dubbed. It looks like she has a bird’s nest on her head as she claims to hear Gypsy violins. And the actor John Payne moves his lips for the male vocal. Milton Berle is seen smoking a cigar.
This music is heard but not seen in the 2018 soundtrack for the “Oscar” winning movie The Shape of Water which was set in 1962.
That movie won the “Best Score” during the 2018 “Academy Awards.” Alexandre Desplat created a wonderful array of music for that film. Most of the musical moments were original except for a few special pieces including “I Know Why and So Do You.”
The latter, the Glenn Miller version, was chosen to help out the romantic theme in this thriller film.
And now here is that same song as performed in the movie Sun Valley Serenade (1941) with Paula Kelly, The Modernaires , and the Glenn Miller Orchestra .
* In case you are wondering why I am adding “USA” to some of our blog posts is because every day we receive “hits” on Blogfinger from foreign fans, averaging 12 countries each day. And they may not know where we are. PG
The City: Is it a warm welcoming place or is it cold and cruel?
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: New York City Street Series, Photos: New York City street series, tagged New York winter on April 18, 2024|
Central Park. Silver gelatin darkroom print by Paul Goldfinger ©.By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Winter can be lonely anywhere it’s cold. In the City the bleakness factor is diminished by the presence of so many people who can live or visit there and enjoy the warmth of it all, with simple pleasures like ducking into a corner coffee shop, wandering in a snow driven Central Park , going to Lincoln Center to see the Bolshoi, feeling the crunch of snow underfoot while coming and going from small shops on Madison Avenue, visiting Rockefeller Center at Christmas, or watching the snow fall on cedars in Washington Square Park.
There is an endless supply of delightful bistros and small ethnic restaurants that welcome you as you come in from the cold—often with a fire crackling nearby as they offer you an array of lasagna or steak frites or Thai noodles.
But, it can also be a solitary place—lonely and bone chilling. Maybe feeding the birds can help. Maybe you need to serve dinner in a shelter. The City wants everyone, even the homeless, to have a place to get warm, and they do a good job of retaining charity and humanity through winter in the City. The NYPD is on the front lines of providing compassion and warmth, making sure that the lonely get embraced by the greatest city in the world. We all want Spring and we all have dreams for tomorrow.
FRANK SINATRA
The Big Lebowski: “I don’t roll on Shabbos.”
Posted in Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photos: New York City street series, tagged The Big Lebowski on March 14, 2024| 2 Comments »
Thompson Street. Village. NYC Street series. By Paul Goldfinger Click to enlarge.
JOE COCKER.
Haiku by George Held
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, George Held on Blogfinger, Photography Central Park, Photos: New York City street series, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged Central park snow on February 28, 2024| 1 Comment »
haiku by George Held.
Winter lingers—–
fingers of spring still wearing
woolen gloves
ANITA O’DAY
This haiku was originally published at Haikuniverse.com © 2019
NYC street series
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Jazz on Blogfinger, Kenny Barron and Regina Carter perform, NYC Street Series Blogfinger on February 11, 2024|
2011. Manhattan. Paul Goldfinger photo ©. Click to enlarge
KENNY BARRON (piano) AND REGINA CARTER (violin) “Shades of Gray” from the album Freefall
At the Met…
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography nocturnal NYC, Photos: New York City street series, tagged NYC Street Series at Blogfinger on January 14, 2024| 2 Comments »
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fifth Avenue. NYC. By Paul Goldfinger. NYC Street Series. © Undated.
MAROON 5 “I Shall Be Released.” Written by Bob Dylan.
Village people…
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Halloween parade NYC on October 30, 2023|
Paul Goldfinger photograph . Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Undated. Click once to enlarge. Silver gelatin darkroom print by PG.
ENNIO MORRICONE (Solisti e Orchestra del Cinema Italiano) from the film “Once Upon a Time in America”