Photographers in Focus: Stephen Shore
One of the all-time living greats — STEPHEN SHORE! The intro here is just amazing.
“Well, what my motel room looked like in 1974 looks nostalgic today, but in 1974 it didn’t look nostalgic at all. Some people would kind of wonder, this just looks like what things look like. And I’d say yes, that’s the idea!”
1978: The NYC Parks/New York Times Photo Project
The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park is showing a fantastic series of images taken in the '70s by NYC press photographers who were left jobless during a newspaper strike in 1978. If you want to know why public space and parks are so important and vital to a city, here's your answer. Go and see this today!