Outtakes (4)
People in streets, in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941. With identification of a mystery storefront.
Outtakes (3)
Kids, in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
Outtakes (2)
Kids, in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs.
Outtakes (1)
Kids in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs.
Tiny Diner
A Brooklyn diner, c. 1939–1941. “Good Food for Good Health”? If you say so.
Ebinger’s
A part of Brooklyn reality.
Critter
Beaver? Walrus? I’m not sure. But when I picked up this sweet potato last night, I knew it was also something — or somene — else.
Noir filter
When I browsed the phone’s filters to turn the picture black and white, I found that the filter I wanted is called Noir. But I think it could just as plausibly be called Horror.
Solstice
It’s my sunset, and I’ll post if I want to.
Another Brooklyn candy store
I remember buying reprints of old comics at Mary’s, including one with a hero who discovered his superpower when pulling baked potatoes outta the fire for the gang.
Another Brooklyn candy store
Pup’s, or Pup’s Luncheontte.
A 13th Avenue candy store
4319 13th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
Chock full o’Nuts in Brooklyn
On Fulton Street, c. 1939–1941.
10031 4th Avenue
Fort Hamilton Beer Garden and Restaurant, Brooklyn, later the home of the Hamilton House.
Candy stores
Picholz’s and others.
Scooter construction
Three photographs, New York, 1947, kids with orange-crate scooters.
Memorial Day
A photograph by Gordon Parks.
Yazoo Zippy, sort of
In today’s Zippy, Bill Griffith pays tribute to his great-grandfather, the painter and photographer William Henry Jackson. One of Jackson’s photographs appears on the cover of a Yazoo LP.
Louis Stettner in Penn Station
An online exhibition from the Tibor de Nagy Gallery: Louis Stettner’s The Penn Station Series (1958), twenty black-and-white photographs.
Biddle = Weegee
From the movies: a photographer who looks a lot like Weegee.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A 1938 photograph.
A third Robert Johnson photograph
It appears on the cover of a book published this week, Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson, by Annye C. Anderson with Preston Lauterbach.
John Loengard (1934–2020)
I’ve posted a number of Loengard photographs from the Life Photo Archive, mostly of Louis Armstrong.
Memorial Day
A Gordon Parks photograph, 1943.
Astrid Kirchherr (1938–2020)
Photographer of the Beatles in the pre-Fab Hamburg days.
Bleach, please
I need to rinse my eyes.
Robert Frank (1924–2019)
I think of Frank’s The Americans (1959) as the photographic analogue of William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All (1923).
Labor Day
A laboratory assistant and a locomotive lubrication chart. Photograph by Jack Delano.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A photograph and a comment on his neighborhood in Queens.
Memorial Day
A 1942 photograph.