Bob W wrote: >He did a series called As From My Window I Sometimes Glance, in which >he photographed scenes from his apartment in NYC. > >Some of them are here: >http://tinyurl.com/ypq8zj > >http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBoxInsertion.Vie >wBoxInsertion_VPage&R=2S5RYD1974RW&RP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxThumb_VPage&C >T=Story&SP=Story > >-- > Bob > > > OMG - You know, I never saw these (well, at least that I recall) .... but there are many of the photos I took in the 70's and 80's from my window that could have been taken in 1958 as well -- in fact, I lived a block away from where I live now in 1959 for a few months... on 6th street - well before I got into doing photography. And the Smith photos I know well are the coal miners, the kids in the woods, etc and um the old guy in the boat :) So mine are not by way of an homage. That second shot sure looks like my 'hood. I'd love to know what corner that is.
I have this vague recollection that someone I knew from the days when the Game Room was in the basement next to the Beacon theatre (it is now a bar/club of some sort) lived in Smith's building, which I thought was then , at least, on the upper west side. Working on that shot for the guy across the street made me long for shooting with tri-x again. It is clear to get good black and white, at least on my printer, I need to print on Epson enhanced matte though what I printed on when I was showing stuff in the 80's was pearl. sigh. Well - now the question is (and I googled first to no avail) where did that title come from? surely a line of verse... The character of the east village is being rapidly destroyed by the NYU high rise dorms and luxury buildings It is beginning to get a little scary on a number of levels. You can tell I just got up -- I'm running off at the keyboard ! ann > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>Behalf Of ann sanfedele >>Sent: 29 September 2007 04:05 >>To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>Subject: Re: PESO: From my window - 1971 >> >>Bob W wrote: >> >> >> >>>Wow, yes - excellent. Very like a W E Smith from his series of the >>>same name. >>> >>>-- >>>Bob >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Thanks, Bob >>Did Smith do one too? Didn't remember that - I was thinking >>Ruth Orkin >> - which is why I used >>that subject line, instead of the chicken store, etc. >> >>ann >> >> > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
