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W. Eugene Smith
Untitled [neon sign through snow-covered fire escape]
New York City, 1957-58
From W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx1yuoiaBM1qzhl9eo1_1280.jpg)
Untitled [neon sign through snow-covered fire escape]
New York City, 1957-58
From W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975
Financial District
Scan of an undated, uncredited postcard I bought when I first moved to the city and never sent. From the absence of the Chase Building and bulky office blocks on Water Street, and with all those working piers, it must be from no later than the late 50s. Artists would have had lofts in the old buildings along Pearl Street; the El curled around the feet of the towers, cigarette smoke through the offices. I love how, by night, the markers of eras vanish between the lights, how recent and fast this feels.
None of which occurred to me when I bought the card. I liked it because it looked like Starry Night.
A study in scale
Ron Herron, Walking City, New York Night, 1964
Buckminster Fuller, Manhattan Island Dome, ca. 1959
A.E. Schaff, Cleveland, Ohio
Under Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
New York City
ca. 1955Photograph by William Gedney
Brooklyn, New York City
1960Photograph by William Gedney
View south on Broadway from south of 72nd Street, 1897
Byron Company, New York
Museum of the City of New YorkBroadway with horse-cars and cyclists, seven years before the IRT.
[h/t The Atlantic Cities: A Visual History of Manhattan’s Grid]
Sans motorized chaos
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