Michelle RickPHOTOGRAPHY
Street Scenes | Manhattan Redux
By MICHELLE RICKMichelle Rick
Viewfinder | An Eye For Summer
By HEATHER HOLLANDHeather Holland on the new season’s photographic possibilities.
“I didn’t get into photography (or what I call picture-taking) until about six months ago when I began my first job as a reporter. One of my first assignments was to take photographs in Stuyvesant Town after the severe snow storm from last Christmas. It was then that I realized how a picture can be used to tell a story, perhaps more vividly than my pen ever could. I took this photo from the boardwalk at Coney Island. Bubbles tend to add a little magic to photographs, but the story of this photo is in the little girl and she told it all on her own.”
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Street Scenes | Dream Vs. Reality
By MICHELLE RICK
Michelle RickStreet Scenes | Everything In Its Place
By ALLISON HERTZBERG
Allison HertzbergRainbow Music, 130 First Avenue.Viewfinder | Benched
By RACHEL CITRONRachel Citron on life and benches in the city.
“The great equalizer – benches afford both natives and visitors free space to mingle while simultaneously allowing each of us to sit down, lie down, or simply have a moment to ourselves. The NYC Bench has continued to thrive in spite of a world consumed by Twitter updates and blog postings that could have rendered the bench obsolete, even quaint. That being said, today’s New Yorker is just as likely to be found reading a book as she is to reading text on her Blackberry.”
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Howling in Black and White
By LEONARDO MENDEZLeonardo Mendez presents a series of black and white images of the weekend’s Howl! Festival.
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Images of the Howl! Festival
By THE LOCALGloria Chung, Vivienne Gucwa, jdx, Susan Keyloun, Bruce Monroe, Mario Ramirez, Joel Raskin, Michelle Rick, and Tim Schreier — all members of The Local East Village Flickr Group — share their images of the weekend’s Howl! Festival.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
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Viewfinder | Abandoned
By MARIO RAMIREZMario Ramirez on capturing images of discarded objects in New York.
“On the cusp of the East Village, standing there, like a monument, for everyone to see. Objects are like people, with wrinkles, accessories, and dysfunctions. Disconnected and off the hook, but to the man there, its keeper, it seemed plugged in and of great importance.”
Street Scenes | Sharing
By MICHELLE RICK
Michelle Rick
Viewfinder | ‘It Really Was A Village’
By MICHAEL SEAN EDWARDSMichael Sean Edwards on East Village life in the 1970’s and 80’s.
“One of the things that most struck me about the East Village when I moved here in 1978, and what made me love it so much is that it really was a village; an enclave in NYC that felt like old Europe rubbing up against the new wave.”
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Looking Back | 35 Cooper Square
By STEPHEN REX BROWNA day after preservationists held a vigil for the demolished 35 Cooper Square, The Local takes a look back at the historic building with archival photographs provided by David Mulkins of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, one of the leaders of the campaign to maintain the building.
