Category Archives: photos

Stormy Weather NYC July 2022

July 26, 2022 – 10:29 am

The Northeast has been in the depth of a long drought worsened by a past week of plus-90 temperatures. I had planned to go up North, but the heat was too wicked for an old man and I opted to remain in New York. I haven’t left the apartment in days, except to get food. […]

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MAUVAIS MECS by Peter Nolan Smith

March 22, 2021 – 9:59 pm

That year winter had been mild in Paris. Farther to the North snow covered Germany and I was glad to have been detoured from Berlin to Paris by an urgent phone call. Vonelli was in trouble. When I got off the train in Gare Du Nord, no one waiting at the station, which was a […]

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Life Is Illusion in the Combat Zone

February 18, 2020 – 6:47 pm

Back in 1969 Jerry Brendt took this photo of two brothers messing around with white girls. This was not Selma, but Boston’s Combat Zone where people could be people. The Caddy is a convertible and the girls love the horseplay. Everything seems perfect. Everything depends on your point of view or disposition. “it’s just a […]

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You Bet I Would – The Ritz In Paris

November 20, 2017 – 9:43 am

Hotels in Paris are very sexy. Especially with naked models in the lobby. STEVEN MEISEL Kristen McMenamy, Ritz Paris, 1993

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Helen Levitt’s PHOTOS FROM THEN

August 23, 2017 – 3:14 am

Last summer a friend from the Rockaways was selling a camera collection. Leicas and Hasselblads. They had cost a fortune in the 70s. I offered him $500. He said no and sold them for $600. I should have upped my bid, because nothing is better than real film. Just take a look at these photos […]

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