ICP window with Cartier-Bresson photograph I went up to ICP (the International Center of Photography) today to see the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit. It’s actually paired with an exhibit of Martin Munkacsi, a photographer who influenced Bresson, and who became fabulously successful doing fashion and magazine work. No doubt, Munkacsi made numerous vivid images–dancers, athletes, and […]

Renée, my wife, on the roof of our building Just a quick post to note that we are now fully moved to New York and open for business. It’s been a difficult couple of months locating an apartment, finding a school for our son Brendan, packing up in Amsterdam, and then moving into our place […]

IAC building Walking downtown through Chelsea–the Frank Gehry IAC building momentarily stands alone above the Highline rail viaduct and vacant lots. This is an area destined to change radically in the next few years. The Highline, which is being developed as an elevated slender ribbon of park (and other amenities) will be, if I may […]

Delancey and Forsythe Streets I’ve been going through the negatives of my Lower East Side work, scanning promising images, and in general, trying to get a handle on where the project is at the moment. There are a lot of negatives. Some of the photographs show specific places or point to the changes occuring in […]

Brendan grabs a slice Rainy day in New York. We’re finally getting settled in after the move. Made a little excursion to the Noguchi Museum in Queens. Pizza for lunch. R train and a walk on Broadway–not the Great White Way–the one in Astoria. On the way to the Noguchi Museum Art on the way […]

A couple of months ago I posted a digital image of Essex and Delancey Streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Here is the 4×5 version, shrunk down and low-rez for the web, of course. This image and the following text is also on my homepage in the Outtakes section. Essex and Delancey Streets […]

Running around town doing errands I snapped a picture of the ubiquitous hawkers of images and icons of New York. In this case, the Statue of Liberty against an American flag, Bow Bridge in Central Park with its backdrop of apartment buildings, the Brooklyn Bridge with the Twin Towers forever etched in the sky, and […]

Airtrain, JFK AirportLife in transition. I’m back after several weeks of making the move from Amsterdam to New York. We are still eating on a cardboard box, but have generally made a successful landing in a beautiful apartment in the West Village near the Hudson River. For me, it’s less of a momentous move than […]