The New York City Municipal Archives recently released over 870,000 photos from their archives. You can view them here.
The Atlantic also has some nice selects here and here. Not a lot of dogs yet. Lots of horses and some sheep.
Dick Sebastian with his dog run group portrait
Read how one man turned a NYC dog run into a community. Powerful and bittersweet. Via The New York Times courtesy of my mom.
Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali. Their eating was legendary. © Fred R. Conrad/NYT
Over the years, I have become used to seeing my old college friend Joe Bastianich on the Today Show recommending wine or being written about in the New York Times (three stars for his restaurant Babbo Enoteca with Mario Batali) or winning awards. He and Mario won the James Beard Foundation’s prestigious Outstanding Restaurateur award this year. In the world of food and wine, Joe is a force of nature.
But, because of his job, he was vulnerable to these very forces. He ate and drank with abandon, and as he approached 40, he wasn’t happy with where he was headed. According to Christine Yi’s NY Times article:
“[the overeating] nearly broke him two years ago. Faced with a diagnosis of sleep apnea
and the dread of having to sleep with a breathing mask for the rest of
his life, Bastianich began running. Then, a year ago, he decided to run
a marathon.”
And this weekend, he will be running the New York City Marathon, on track to finish in 3:43. Of all of Joe’s accomplishments, this might be the most impressive.
Deanna, Olivia + Ethan in the kitchen as Joe prepares for his morning run. © Douglas Healey/NYT
There are thousands of ways Joe could have handled his self-described “mid-life crisis,” gorgonzola, Chianti, fusilli, pig jowls, truffle oil, to name a few. Instead he put on the running shoes and hit the pavement.
Joe’s dog Quattro: “Hey, where’d all the snacks go?”
Congratulations, Joe and good luck with the race!
OK, I am off to spin class. Our Boston College 20 year reunion is in May and Joe has set the bar very high.
New York City’s Silverstein Photography’s current exhibition First Contact: A Photographer’s Sketchbook explores the creative process of image-making by showing contact sheets alongside iconic photographs from of Magnum Photos’s collection. The show “explores the ‘decisive moment,’ a term defined by Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of Magnum, as ‘the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression.”
Elliot Erwitt’s New York City, 1974, perfectly captures the spirit of the show and is a treat for dog lovers.
The New Yorker calls the show “engrossing” and lauds it for giving viewers not only an opportunity to “see masters at work…but to second guess them.” Inspiring and “educational in the best sense of the word.”
Other Photographers include Eve Arnold, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Leonard Freed, Paul Fusco, Bruce Gilden, Burt Glinn, Ernst Haas, Erich Hartmann, Constantine Manos, Susan Meiselas, Inge Morath, Eli Reed, George Rodger, David Seymour, Dennis Stock, and Alex Webb from Magnum. And Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Man Ray, and Irving Penn, and Diane Arbus from a private collection. Show runs until August 3.
I had a nice surprise this morning — a traffic stream from New York Magazine. Seems they picked up my Booze Hound story linking to their article about dog friendly restaurants in NYC. And they linked back to me. Check it out here under comment #3.
Thanks New York Magazine!