I met Richard, the photographer/filmmaker at a party last weekend – super interesting guy who documents the changes in NYC through photography and film. We had a great conversation about the “old” New York in the mid-80′s, when I moved to NYC for the first time from my ex-hometown of Boston, MA. He’s going to be presenting both photography and film next week at Millennium Film Workshop, with an opening reception and screening on May 6th. Definitely worth a look.
MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP ANNOUNCES
A STILL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
"CC train," 1985, copyright Richard Sandler
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th St. (between 1st and 2nd Avenues) East Village, N.Y.C.
Opening Reception: May 6th (Thursday) 6:00 ~ 8:00 PM
The photographs in this show were made in New York City between 20 and 30 years ago and they depict a crazy time that lives in limbo: they are too young to be the historicalrecords of the fuzzy past, and way too old to resemble contemporary culture, now moving at warp speed.These pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, I pods, digital cameras and the internet: there was no way to filter the realities of the broken city, and there was no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply ”on the street,” in public space, bathing in the comforts, (or terrors), of the human sea.
In the subways, graffiti tags and spray painting exploded onto every surface and whole subway cars were “bombed,” windows and all.Above and below ground, crime and crack were on the rise,therefore rents were cheap and tourists didn’t come here.
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Over the Christmas holiday, some pre-pubescent boy from the midwest apparently called the Viacom switchboard (or automated directory) looking for Tom Kenney – the voice of Spongebob Squarepants – and got me. I’m guessing he posted my number to Club Penguin, Weeworld or some other kids community because when I returned from the holiday break I had several (well, ok, 4) messages from different boys inviting me to birthday parties and baseball games. A friend on Facebook asked if I would post them, but unfortunately I deleted all but one. Here’s the one I randomly kept – it’s not the best of the lot, but it’ll do.
