Queens-Midtown Tunnel - 1939

Construction workers building the Queens-Midtown Tunnel
New York City - 1939
photos by Carl Mydans
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Weatherman

#1-5 "On West 11th Street, Greenwich Village, near the site of the demolished Wilkerson town house at 18 W. 11th, accidentally blown up by SDS militants who were using the house as a bomb factory in absence of the owner." Co Rentmeester.
#6 "A body being removed from a townhouse that was being used as a bomb factory exploded." Bill Eppridge.

March 1970

7th Regiment Armory - 1956

150th Anniversary of the 7th Regiment. New York, NY, 1956.
Howard Sochurek
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SoHo 1970

#1: "A congested street in Soho where more than a thousand artists live and work in huge lofts."
#2: "Sculptor Duane Hanson (rear blond male) standing w. life-size fiberglass models of winos, cops, soldiers and demonstrators in front of SoHo art gallery."











#1: "Linda and Tom Blackwell sitting on sofa in their live-in loft in SoHo."
#2: "Painter Nobu Fukui playing ping pong during party in his live-in work loft in SoHo."
#3: No caption.
#4: "Sculptor Bill Tarr and wife Yvonne sitting on platform in his Soho studio (that they will convert into a live-in loft) w. his welded steel and bronze sculptures on floor below."
#5: "Painter Jack Beal and his wife, sculptor Sondra, sitting at table in their Soho loft w. his artwork hanging on walls."
#6: "Multimedia artist Bob Wiegand exercising on trapeze in his loft w. his artwork in the background." (photo is upside down.)

All photos by John Dominis.

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Science

Photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a 1950 vision experiment.

Caption #3: "Graduate student Fred Snyder falling down after removing special eyeglasses that reverse and invert everything he sees. Immediately before removing glasses he rode a bicycle with perfect control along sidewlk in Central Park at end of 30 day experiment to learn whether vision is a natural function or a process that must be learned."

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Museum Trip

Went to MoMA today with Kelly R. (thanks August!)
Saw the big Martin Kippenberger show and the Tehching Hsieh stuff.
Buzzed through "Tangled Alphabets" and "Compass in Hand".
There's always too much stuff and I can only take so much.

Tried to recreate a Sigmar Polke drawing when we got home.

Later, I was searching the Life Magazine archive for interesting photos.
Found a bunch from April of 1958 that were all related to a fire. (mentioned here)
A couple of them had the caption "Employees moving paintings during the fire."
I thought to myself, "I wonder if Frank O'Hara is in any of these. That would be weird."

Behold!


Detail:

Am I right or am I right?
(Kelly's not convinced.)

New York City Random

Brooklyn Random






#1. A birdseye view of the Brooklyn section of New York City during the Spring season. - Ralph Morse, April 1949.
#2. Leonard Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1943.
#3. Fire escapes on apartment houses in slum section. - Joseph Scherschel, February 1958.
#4. Nude Sculpture Photographed At Brooklyn Museum - Andreas Feininger, n.d.


Manhattan Random







#1. Cree Indian folk-singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, while in New York. - Arthur Schatz, 1965.
#2. Russian Folk Dancers In N.Y. - Walter Sanders, n.d.
#3. Former German Luteran church is now thriving as a disco called Sanctuary Club. - John Dominis, 1969.
#4. Folk singer Woody Guthrie singing aboard a subway train. Eric Schaal, 1943.

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