“Weegee Has a Salon”
PM, August 27, 1941, p. 14 Weegee Has a Salon: Arthur Fellig, the night-prowling cameraman who turns in many of PM’s choicest pictures of fires, wrecks, rescues and crimes, is having a one-man show of...
View ArticleLouis Faurer, New York, late 1940s
Louis Faurer, Playground, New York, New York, 1947 (2013.99.46) Louis Faurer, [Woman on street with newspaper, New York], 1947 (2013.99.36) Louis Faurer, 42nd Street, New York, ca. 1948 (2013.99.31)...
View Article“a home run over the fence”
W. Eugene Smith, [Herman Stegos, age 11, hitting a home run over the fence, New York], ca. 1940 (1565.2005) W. Eugene Smith, “Pap” Lettieri, 10, “Chinky” Leone, 10, Italo Ablondi, 10 and Salvo...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Ruth Orkin
Ruth Orkin, American Girl in Italy, 1951 (535.1983) Ruth Orkin, Man in rain, from my window at 53 W 88th St. N.Y.C., 191 (546.1983) Ruth Orkin, From Gansevoort St. Pier, Boys Swimming in Hudson River,...
View ArticleHappy Birthday John Cage
David Seidner, [John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s 18th Street loft, New York], ca. 1994 David Seidner, [John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s 18th Street loft, New York], ca. 1994 David Seidner, [John Cage...
View ArticleFive photographs of the World Trade Center in the 1970s
David Plowden, World Trade Center, New York, New York, 1972 (74.1989) Wolf von dem Bussche, Homage to Stieglitz, 1976 (553.1982b) Wolf von dem Bussche, Trade Center Towers IV, 1976 (553.1982e) Thomas...
View ArticleNew York, September 11, 2001
Aftonbladet, September 2001, (2006.30.114) Aftonbladet is a Swedish newspaper and founded in 1830. The Mirror, September 12 2001 (2006.30.123) Photo by Spencer Platt Daily Express, September 12, 2001...
View Article“…if we don’t stop burning oil and coal, the Big Apple will be cooked.”
The Yes Men, “New York Post,” September 21, 2009, p. 1 (2009.76.3) The Yes Men, “New York Post,” September 21, 2009, pp. 2-3 (2009.76.3) It’s Coming! City report says extreme storms, flooding, deadly...
View Article“This squirrel is perfectly oblivious…”
Weegee, Hoarding for Winter, October 5, 1941 (14899.1993) Weegee, Hoarding for Winter [verso], October 5, 1941 (14899.1993) PM, October 6, 1941, p. 14 Hoarding for Winter on one of the hottest days of...
View Article“Brooklyn School Children See Gambler Murdered in Street”
Weegee, Their First Murder, October 8, 1941 (13.1997) A few days after Weegee’s photo of oblivious New York squirrels hoarding acorns in Battery Park was published in PM and a few days after the...
View ArticleJill Freedman
Jill Freedman, Chester, Washington D.C., from “Resurrection City,” 1968 (143.1981.k) https://fansinaflashbulb.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/freedman_jill_1978_10_05_rc_02.mp3 Jill Freedman at ICP,...
View Article“Opening of the Guggenheim Museum”
Dennis Stock, Opening of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959 (2016.26.15) Weegee, The Guggenheim Museum, ca. 1959 (5877.1993) Frank Lloyd Wright’s building for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum...
View Article“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
Lewis Hine, Playground in tenement alley, New York, 1909 (2006.55.10) “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” performed by Harvey Hindermeyer in 1908, written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, 1908....
View Article“Look What The Cop Dragged In!”
PM, October 24, 1941, p. 15 [detail] An editorial published in The New York Post on October 23, 1941 called for the arrest of Joseph McWilliams: For Magistrate Hoppin On Sept. 3, 1941, Magistrate...
View ArticleRoy Campanella’s World Series home run, 1953
Baseball crowd, Major Records Charles Hoff, [Fans reaching for ball from Dodgers’ catcher Roy Campanella’s home run hit during third game of the World Series against the New York Yankees, Ebbetts...
View Article“That Dust Bowl Is Second Base,” 1941
Charles Hoff, That Dust Bowl is Second Base [detail], 1941 (2019.45.11)Charles Hoff, That Dust Bowl is Second Base, 1941 (2019.45.11) Charles Hoff, That Dust Bowl is Second Base [verso], 1941...
View ArticlePerfect
Arthur Rickerby, Yankee pitcher Don Larsen in the fifth game of the 1956 World Series, 1956 (500.1993) On a Monday afternoon in the Bronx, Yankee pitcher Don Larsen pitched a perfect game. This photo...
View ArticleVote – Life
Matt Herron, “Vote” Marcher, Selma to Montgomery, March 1965 (2008.56.1) Cornell Capa, [Election day at the Democratic Party election-day headquarters, Biltmore Hotel, New York], November 8, 1960...
View Article“After the Brawl Was Over”
Weegee, [Norma Parker, aka Nellie Gutowski, New York], November 14, 1936 (13964.1993) New York Post, November 14, 1936 After the Brawl was Over Norma Parker, in a patrol wagon outside Police...
View Article“a few minutes before”… and after
Unidentified photographer, [John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally, and Nellie Connally in presidential limousine, Dallas], November 22, 1963 (2013.24.1) Pres. Jack Kennedy. Dallas, Texas...
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