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March 25, 2010
March 15, 2010
March 12, 2010
Midnight Kiss 1989
A simple photograph that has received more comments than any I’ve taken…
Proving that deep down, people still believe in love!
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March 11, 2010
The Holiday Cocktail Lounge 1990
The “holiday” is a popular dive bar on St. Marks Place which I must have passed a thousand times. This time, someone had left their little sidekick outside while they attempted to wet their whistle…
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Harlem Lookout 1988
This dog was probably an early warning system for business which was being conducted within. It was the only building left on an entire block of East Harlem. It has always been a very popular image…
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March 9, 2010
Herman R.I.P. 1995
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This is how I want to remember Herman Markowitz. Smiling and being a sweet old man. When he was released from the concentration camp, he weighed less than ninety pounds. As you can see he was well built. He said he was a talented wrestler, and he was very strong into his seventies. In 1956 he moved into a 3d floor studio apartment on West 86th Street. His rent was $56 per month! When he died in 2007, his rent had climbed to $218 per month. He spent his working years in a factory in Jersey working a lathe and stamping metal pieces for who knows what. He had one close call with falling in love back in the sixties, but it didn’t work out. I should have taped our conversations. The stories he told me about being stuck in a Nazi work camp during the war, will fuck me up till the day I die…
“Cash in Hand” 1987
I remember thinking how back in the 1930′s when the Bowery was a place were you could get a bed for 15¢ and a pastrami sandwich for 20¢ this would never happen. If you fell asleep with 40¢ in your hand, you woke up empty handed!
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March 7, 2010
Hotel Martinique 1988
The Martinique was a welfare hotel back in the ’80s and the kids would spill out into the streets. I should probably have spent some time shooting them, but I just stopped my cab, put on the blinkers and took several shots of these kids crawling up onto the phone booths. I’ve always been on the move and it’s now obvious that slowing down and staying put is a very good strategy, but the old cliche that you can’t teach an old dog, well you know what I mean…
This is a mediocre scan from an old print and will be rescanned one day, hopefully sooner than later.
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