Lost, Lonely and Viscious, a photography show by Flo Schapiro opens tonight at Halcyon in DUMBO. It’s “some sort of collection of fragmentary observations of New York’s people, places and pandemonium above and below ground.” So if you like NYC street photography, check it out. If that’s not enough, there will be beer from Brooklyn Brewery, Red Bull from Red Bull, and homemade cookies and cupcakes from the artist.
Check out some photos on her blog, and then get your ass over there.
Lost, Lonely and Viscious
HALCYON in DUMBO, Brooklyn
57 Pearl St, at corner of Water St.
Trains: F to York St and A or C to High St.
Tiny Vices has a new gallery of Boogie’s street photography with scenes from around New York. If you’re unfamiliar with his street photography they’re a good introduction to the beautiful but gritty shots of Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Queensbridge in his book, It’s All Good.
His website, perhaps our favorite photoblog, features a photo of Black Label’s giant foam penis being pedaled by bike through Greenpoint. His confusion is understandable.
Artist Jessica Williams created an archive of people’s self-portraits taken while crying. Whether they’re onion tears or sorrow, the photos in I’m Too Sad to Tell You are captivating, disturbing and even funny.
You can still submit your own self-portrait if you need a good cry before the weekend.
Photo from I’m Too Sad to Tell You by Arion Ellis Potts.
Next Wednesday April 4th, there will be a release party for the book Public Wall Writing in Philadelphia. The book chronicles the roots of modern graffiti in the city from which it originated. The photographs, pulled mostly from the Temple University photo archives and the authors private stock, document wall writing in Philly as far back as the 1960s. The book is published by Free News Projects and Megawords Magazine.
The party will feature audio/visual installations by Megawords. Copies of Public Wall Writing in Philadelphia will be available for $20.00 as well as a limited number of Megawords magazine issue 6 for free.
Wednesday, April 4th, 7:00-10:00pm
Maysles Institute
343 Lenox Street
Photographer, Bill Sullivan, took candid photos of people exiting NYC subway turnstiles. Sullivan outlines the standards for situational photography which capture unknown subway riders in a very standardized setting.
I developed a situation so that various subjects could be defined by the constraints of exactly the same mechanical apparatus. The scenario consisted of someone passing through a subway turnstile. At the moment that the subjects passed through the turnstile, unknown to them, I took their picture stationed at a distance of eleven feet. I stood there turning pages of a magazine observing subjects out of the corner of my eye, waiting for only the moment when they pushed the turnstile bar to release the shutter.
Also capturing the determination to get home quickly, throw those new 24 inch mag wheels on your bike and ride.
Images by Bill Sullivan.
