The last month or so, my attention has been focused on cellphone imagery, as is evidenced by all the Instagram images I've been posting. This image, too, should be an Instagram post, but since it is not in a square format it gets cropped by the app. I don't know any artist who is happy about having his/her work cropped arbitrarily. Rather than post it through Instagram, I'm posting it directly to the Photoberry blog.
Friday night, I met my friend Dennis at MoMA to see the Eugene Atget exhibit (
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1216). The show was terrific. Atget has long been one of my favorite photographers and an important influence on my work and the work of other photographers I like (Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott.) Atget photographed Paris and its environs for 30 years from the 1890s until his death in 1927. One of the recurring themes in his work was the documentation of various storefronts and picture windows (
http://gowanuscanal.posterous.com/eugene-atget-store-windows ). I've long been taking photographs of windows and reflections as well. On the way back to the subway, with Atget on my mind, I photographed one of the windows of Brooks Brothers, complete with the SNY ticker in reflection.
Here are some links to earlier window posts:
