June 2009
11 posts
Downtown Living
When you buy a $102,000 72-room house at 190 Bowery in 1966, it becomes the hottest piece of property (and increases in value 400-fold) 45 years later. Behold photographer Jay Maisel’s six-story LES abode, courtesy of New York.
"I got the check."
In November, Google made the LIFE Magazine photo archives available online. By the end of the year, the archive’s nearly 10 million photos will be available. Some of the images are serious and important, some are beautiful and moving, others are just fun. The following series falls in the latter category.
According to LIFE: “Manhattan’s Stork Club, one of the most famous...
“Cool is…”
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Always Classic
Coke’s witty summer cans…
Tulips, Everywhere
This is what the Dutch countryside looks like in the spring, when 3 billion tulips burst into bloom. Photos courtesy of the Daily Mail:
“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”
– Jean Cocteau
Avedon Invades the ICP
Richard Avedon took beautiful pictures of beautiful women wearing beautiful things. The man is an icon in the world of photography and fashion, and the current retrospective of his work at the International Center of Photography is stunning. On view until September, more than 200 pieces from a career that spanned nearly 60 years are being exhibited. Whether shot for the New Yorker or Vanity...
