Two more photos made in East Berlin before the Wall came down. East Berlin 1987 (4×5 film) East Berlin 1987 (4×5 film)

Neue Synagoge, Oranienburger Strasse, Berlin, 1987 (4×5 film) I’ve been scanning a series of pictures I made in 1987 in what was then East Berlin. This was a somewhat difficult proposition given the nature of the communist state of the DDR. Carrying a view camera across the border elicited the attention of the border agents, […]

Barbed wire fence along the Austrian/Hungarian border, 1987 (4×5 film) There was an interesting article in today’s New York Times about former East Germans who attempted to escape the communist state of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by a circuitous, and dangerous, route through Bulgaria. For those of you unfamiliar with the Iron Curtain, it […]

Union Square Park, New York, September 2001 19 hijackers, mostly from Saudi Arabia, trained or directed by Bin Laden in Afghanistan killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. As a result: 4,000 Americans now dead in Iraq. Tens of thousands of others dead. Untold number of casualties, both physical […]

Ypenburg, The Netherlands, (4×5 film) I’ve been spending a lot of time with my architectural photography archive of late. Most of the early pictures are 4×5 transparencies, the favored film format at the time. Later, I switched to negative film, which better handled mixed interior lighting, and those negs were duped on positive print film. […]

Esto Photographics, Mamaroneck, New York Visited Esto today, the architectural photography agency, and legacy of the great photographer of buildings Ezra Stoller. I met with Erica Stoller, Ezra’s daughter, who runs the place, showed my work for possible inclusion in their stock portfolio, and got a tour of the facilities. (Thanks for the hospitality.) The […]

St. Mark’s Place I walked today along St. Mark’s Place between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. It’s the same semi-tawdry strip that it’s always been despite the transformation of so much of the East Village. When I first came to New York in 1977 there were few places in the neighborhood to get a haircut–one was […]

Eldridge Street Synagogue (4×5 film) From a few weeks ago–I made this picture from the stoop of a tenement building. As I’ve written before, I’ve had a hard time figuring out how to photograph the synagogue so that one is aware of the surrounding visual cacophony of Chinatown. This image doesn’t exactly do that, but […]

Eldridge Street (4×5 film) Just getting around to scanning some earlier Lower East Side photographs including the view above of Eldridge Street in Chinatown. Allen Street (4×5 film) No more Polaroid and other digital issues There are several interrelated things that are of great concern to me these days all related to changing technology. The […]